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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 16, 2012, 07:59:16 PM »

I can almost guarantee that someone will purchase the Twinkies line of products from Hostess, they won't let a staple just die out like that.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 16, 2012, 01:25:37 AM »

The national HD LDL is back into storm mode today and they added airport travel delays on the left where the show name usually is.

The taped segments on the 1am WCL are still letterboxing on the SD channel.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 15, 2012, 10:47:29 PM »

Comcast has been moving to get all of their cable boxes on the same operating platform (iGuide) over the past few years..... Once that is done (won't be for possible 2-3 more years), then all the updates and ugprades will be delivered to all users at the same time. SARA hasn't really seen any updates at all over the past several years, so it's only feasible to move all of their boxes to the same platform. iGuide has its moments though.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 15, 2012, 04:08:12 AM »

I know it's a double post.... I got incredibly bored this morning and tinkered with stylish and edited many .jar files to accomplish the massive transparency in Firefox! :3

https://goput.it/udf.jpg

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 15, 2012, 02:08:40 AM »

Has TWC finally gone to 16:9 or is it still 4:3? WCL at 1am EDT is in 16:9

Just checked the SD Channel and you're right but the LDL blocks the bottom allowing the HD "TWC, TWC Mobile logos that appears behind the HD LDL" to show on the top making it squished. It's problay only for 1AM ET since it is a replay.

I was thinking that too, because the Weather Updates were filmed 16:9 as well, but I guess we'll find out at 4am. Haha

EDIT: now back to 4:3 because of the live segment

It's possible they may be doing what they accidentally did for Evening Edition West Coast back in 2008, and letterboxing the recorded video by accident. We'll have to wait until 4am to find out

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 14, 2012, 09:53:41 PM »

Footage from my local O&O: Fox 32 News at Nine New Graphics/Music 11/12/2012 (Close)

Quite the identity crisis Fox Chicago/Fox32 is having..... I saw four different logos in that video alone.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 14, 2012, 06:37:40 PM »

Evidently the Global Forecast Center now has a logo in the titlebars.....

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: 2012 Layoffs

« on: November 13, 2012, 11:15:45 PM »

Alex Wallace was on the week of October 22nd then seems to have disappeared again.
Either he's got some extra vacation time or he did leave TWC.

He hasn't left TWC. He's probably doing extra stuff behind the scenes, especially with the new formats and such. He was declared the host of First Outlook, so I'm sure he'll return soon.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Morning & Dayside revamp

« on: November 13, 2012, 11:13:05 PM »

I think why they are still using the red colored L3s is due to Sandy's aftermath.

I think "Sandy aftermath" coverage has been over for awhile, so I can't see why they would still be using red L3rds for that reason.  Didn't things go back to normal before the switch to the new graphics?

But, agreeing with everyone else, if they are indeed using red L3rds for all shows, all the time, that's just absurd.  It no longer gives "uniqueness" to the different shows, and most importantly, what the heck are they going to use for their "heightened alert" modes?

Their overuse is probably to make it seem that everything is "breaking news".... it's not the best approach.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 13, 2012, 02:08:16 AM »

I'd like to be there for the show prep meeting.
So Kim you are going to be on at 1am, 1:30am and 1:40am and all the other segments are going to be recorded from 10pm ET. 
Also at the end of the 1am hour they showed the wrong schedule since it was from the end of the 10pm ET broadcast. 
Please tell me this was just a one time thing and WCL is going actually be live tomorrow.

It's been this way for a while now. Usually there are recorded segments from the 7pm show that are shown at 10pm and 1am.... This is to reduce costs, and less production personnel is needed to produce the shows. It didn't just start tonight, but they made it painfully obvious when they were showing a radar from 10:30 pm EST...

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General Discussion / 20 States File Petition to Secede From the Union...

« on: November 12, 2012, 11:35:54 PM »

What is wrong with people these days... Symbolic or not, people wanting to secede from the US should just not be here to begin with...... http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/secission-petitions-filed-20-states-190210006.html

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General Weather Chat / Re: Here comes another one! Approx Nov 20th

« on: November 11, 2012, 04:41:10 PM »

We have to remember, this past Nor'Easter was just 990mb and dropped significant snowfall...

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General Weather Chat / Here comes another one! Approx Nov 20th

« on: November 11, 2012, 04:33:35 PM »

Here comes another one heading our way showing for the 20th.... It's 10mb lower than it was run a few days ago. It's showing possible activity for approx November 20th.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 10, 2012, 11:37:36 PM »

I have received word from SpringRubber that Fox O&O stations are going to be overhauling/revamping their news graphics packages starting Monday.... So much stuff to record to watch......

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Why The Weather Channel is Naming Winter Storms

« on: November 08, 2012, 05:55:00 PM »

The Weather Channel is their channel, not the National Weather Service's channel. If they want to name their storms, let them. Who are we to say they can't?