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General Discussion / Re: Charles Abel-Lear 1980-2019

« on: November 09, 2019, 11:42:59 PM »

No way!

May he rest in peace, and may his legacy live on for many, many more years to come.

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OCMs & Personalities / Jeff Morrow is back

« on: September 02, 2019, 01:15:12 AM »

I didn't see this coming at all!

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Programming and Graphics / Re: AMHQ OFF AIR -- TECH DIFFICULTIES

« on: April 22, 2019, 01:49:45 PM »

I was able to see some of the programming after the hack. In the 5 years I have actively watched anyways, I have never seen TWC down like this. They was stuck in the long-form mode with the show running, and they was putting the on-air graphic overlaying on the show, saying that they had Technical Difficulties. Their MAX system has been sketchy, but I have noticed that during long-form during the Local on the 8's animation, sometimes the LDL will run another one on top of it. And they are just running TWC ads where you would see Local on the 8's during longform. They even had the Local Now and Weatherscan platform down for a period of time.

This is nothing* compared to what happened the night of January 21, 2008.

* YMMV on this. A ransomware attack is very large indeed, but the incident that happened 11 years ago is very much comparable in that systems were knocked out, but also possibly larger due to the fact that electrical damage occurred, and they were actually completely off the air (black screens and emergency feed).

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: April 22, 2019, 01:45:01 PM »

The full-screen LF has officially been removed.

Can you cite your source on this official decision?

I agree.

They were just hit with a ransomware attack last week, and that does take time to recover from, even if you have extensive backups of your systems.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Bill Evans

« on: February 18, 2019, 11:28:16 PM »

He was never on TWC. He's the former chief meteorologist of WABC-TV and left that position a few weeks ago.

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Local Forecast / Re: Los Angeles Sues the Weather Channel

« on: January 05, 2019, 11:20:51 AM »

They're suing The Weather Company/IBM, not Weather Group Television, for clarity.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: July 11, 2018, 02:23:34 PM »

Throwback! 10 years ago! Or is it?
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If you're trying to make it look real, then allow me to point out all of the mistakes right here:

• That flavor lineup never existed! During the era of the metro forecast starting with the LF, the radar/satellite product was divided up into six regions instead of four, whenever the regional forecast map was used on a 2:00 flavor
• The SLF started with the Precipitation forecast/severe alerts product effective 7/1/2008
• Four out of six regions during your regional forecast product use the 2010 icons
• Your severe weather warnings maps use the 2003-2005 titlebars. not present during that era at all
• The radar/satellite products did not use enhanced satellite imagery during this time. That experiment only lasted a week when the graphics changed in late May 2008
• Your LOT8s corner bug. Firstly, TWC did not debut the LOT8s bug until late August 2008, much less with that font. Secondly, the bug was present during the entire duration of the product, and not just on screen for a few seconds.

I get that what you did was an emulation, but please use your own thread in the emulation videos section instead of posting in this thread, which is meant for discussion on the real thing.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Local on the 8s Major Change Beginning Tomorrow

« on: April 03, 2018, 11:14:03 AM »

I just watched a segment of this now, and I couldn't believe it. The only thing that changed is the upper-right display and nothing more. It is not "the same products" because there was no 36-hour forecast displayed at all, nor a 7-day forecast. The LDL on my IS2 just kept running as normal (it wasn't even on Tampa!), and the sidebar info just switched between the almanac and the radar.

However, on the national feed (which for some reason shows through watching online in the Spectrum TV app instead of my locals), when the LOT8s corner graphic came on, the sidebar graphic changed to a similar map loop of the regions across the US as fullscreen LOT8s, and concluded in the southwest.

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Emulator Videos / Re: Zach's WeatherSTAR Emulation Videos

« on: December 24, 2017, 09:26:46 PM »

Merry Christmas!

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Beta Testing/Issues Discussion / Re: Oct 4 2017 - Former Member Beta Testing Begins

« on: October 22, 2017, 10:20:53 PM »

Brian, I am really glad to see that this project is going after all these years. I definitely would love to beta test the program if I can since you know I have a CINE account if it's still not too late.

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General Discussion / Re: Death of One of our own Members

« on: August 03, 2017, 09:51:18 PM »

James was a great friend of mine when I was younger and the many conversations I had with him kept me up during my time of depression. May he rest in peace.

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Tampa Weatherscan unit

« on: May 29, 2017, 05:17:02 PM »

You realize that was the unit you used to receive until early 2015, right?

Yes, the unit ID is 26778. The image was captured on April 19, 2009.

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Local Forecast / "Free Man in NJ" by Marc Muller now available

« on: February 11, 2017, 09:54:17 AM »

I haven't been here in a long time, but I still do track TWC music every now and then and just the other day I found out that Marc Muller released his TWC hit "Free Man in NJ" for download back in December last year! It's available on CDBaby, Google Play Music, and Amazon; I haven't checked iTunes yet.

The song was known for its airtime in the March/April 2010 and May/June 2011 playlists.

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Enjoy guys!

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Help and Support / Local weather temporarily unavailable?

« on: August 27, 2016, 06:48:57 PM »

Hi Brian,

I'm not sure if there's anything you can do about this, but when I go to run the simulator, all I get is the unavailable screen. When I try to log into CINE to configure my data, it hangs when I try to submit my location.

My STAR ID is Zach.

Thanks!

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Dave Schwartz Battling Cancer

« on: July 31, 2016, 08:31:08 PM »

I was coming home to Florida from a road trip to Virginia when I saw the news, very sad. Dave was one of the few personalities I enjoyed watching growing up, and I definitely enjoyed his personality and felt upset when he was laid off. I was glad to see him back two years ago as well, but I felt as if he wasn't his old self on the air in recent years.