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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 07, 2008, 10:52:11 PM »

I crack myself up sometimes.

If you take the part about me out it'll be fine! 

Nah. That's the "FEATURE PRESENTATION." Can't get rid of that, otherwise, no one here would enjoy it. Durr.

Goes along with your personal title

I figured, for the safety of the public at large, I'd take out the part of my "twisting" my bag of nuts. And no, it isn't recommended you try that at home... unless CE is there to oversee such an event. 

Wasn't aware that everyone felt that way. 

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TWC Today News / Downtime

« on: July 07, 2008, 10:48:49 PM »

Just wanted to apologize for the downtime Not sure what caused it, but rest assured, I've let HostGo know in no uncertain terms that it was unacceptable.

Thanks for your patience!  :sunglasses:

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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 07, 2008, 10:46:54 PM »

If you take the part about me out it'll be fine! 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

« on: July 07, 2008, 10:45:10 PM »

I was going to mention that. Indeed that would be very fitting..  :sunglasses:

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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 07, 2008, 08:40:03 PM »

I've already told everyone via e-mail that it is Wednesday, so I think its probably too late to change the date. Just give us your clip when you can. 

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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 07, 2008, 07:36:41 PM »

Well then Wednesday at 7:58Pm it is!  :sunglasses:

Of course, comments and questions are still welcome!

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TWC Today News / LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 07, 2008, 06:08:02 PM »

Since most changes (if not all) in regards to the LF are in place, I thought now might be a good time to do another LAT48's.

It will be on Wednesday, at 7:58PM ET. If this time is a problem, let me know and I will change it to whatever is more acceptable.

Questions, comments, etc. are welcome!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: NBC Buys TWC!!!

« on: July 07, 2008, 05:58:27 PM »

Maybe, but I've definately seen that before...particularly Jim Contore on World News Tonight on ABC.

Well those days are over. The management at NBC would shit themselves to find Jim appearing on a competing network once they actually "own" TWC.

Let's keep in mind that TWC will continue to be run as a seperate entity. 

Doesn't matter. NBCU will manage TWC. If they want the videos down, then they shall be brought down. Or at least to the best of their abilities.

Mark my words, nothing will change in terms of YouTube. 

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General Weather Chat / Re: Hurricane Central 2008

« on: July 07, 2008, 04:57:21 PM »

This could get interesting. I saw the forecast track of this storm and it looks like it COULD impact the Mid-Atlantic coast, depending on how much of a northern turn it makes.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: NBC Buys TWC!!!

« on: July 07, 2008, 04:55:17 PM »

Let's keep in mind that TWC will continue to be run as a seperate entity. 

On a different note, one thing I realized that we should probably expect is more long form programming. Seems that teaming with a big media conglomerate like NBC would be ideal for TWC to expand their long form stuff. 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: NBC Buys TWC!!!

« on: July 07, 2008, 12:40:16 PM »

Gary, you don't know that for sure. NBC may very well take them down, eventually (not now, obviously).


Here's my prediction... the first sign of NBC/TWC integration will be TWC field OCMs (Jim, Mike, Jeff, etc) reporting on NBC's TODAY Show and Nightly News during weather events, and/or NBC's field OCMs reporting on TWC. This, though, it still down the road.

That's certainly not what I would call a major change. IN fact, I would welcome that! There's a big difference between that and total obliteration of the LF and WxScan as we know it, as some here are predicting, wouldn't you say Tyler? 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: NBC Buys TWC!!!

« on: July 07, 2008, 11:53:04 AM »

GUYS NBC IS NOT GOING TO REMOVE OUR VIDEOS. FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES NOTHING WILL CHANGE ABOUT TWC. IT IS STILL, FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES ITS OWN ENTITY. CAN'T YOU READ?

That is all. 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: NBC Buys TWC!!!

« on: July 07, 2008, 11:09:27 AM »

For one thing, NBC Universal will likely have our weatherstar videos removed and our YouTube accounts terminated, since they now have TWC.

Uh oh, for real?

Vic, use your head.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Late night HD launch, part Deux.

« on: July 07, 2008, 10:29:17 AM »

Finally, my "hurricane-loving HD-fest" prediction is holding true so far. During the final ten minutes of the first hour of FO, Bertha was upgraded to a hurricane, and it's now the "Top Story" and has led off the top of the hour and the segment at :10 past so far. We'll probably hear more about it soon. In fact, they just did a teaser for it going to break using the "intense" production music that led off most editions of SD Evening Edition from August 2007-May 2008. You can tell the producers and directors are getting hyped up. How much you want to bet this weekend we'll have Jim Cantore live from Bermuda in HD during Weekend View and Evening Edition? Then again, do they have a way to transmit HD video from Bermuda? They might not.

Yeah it shouldn't be long now before we see them going into their first HD Storm Alert Mode. 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: NBC Buys TWC!!!

« on: July 07, 2008, 10:25:44 AM »

I'll repeat what I said earlier again for the benefit of the doomsayers amongst us (cough Jtaylor cough). You won't see too many changes when the smoke settles. For the most part TWC is a winning recipe, so I highly doubt NBC is going to implement any terribly drastic changes. As they say, you don't fix what ain't broken.