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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: January 16, 2011, 06:14:24 PM »

It makes me wonder how Floridas summer will be now.. this is amongst the coldest winters Ive seen in my life down here and summer 2010 was amongst the warmest. Quite odd

Maybe this summer will be a happy medium for you all. But yeah, I've seen where Orlando has been in the 50s a LOT this winter...Miami in the lower 60s. That's crazy; I think we've been warmer a few times. And hopefully spring break in Florida for me this year won't be like last year when it was 60 degrees and rainy in the middle of March.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Weather Center cut back, will appear on weekends; New LOT8s squeezeback

« on: January 16, 2011, 06:11:18 PM »

Can someone PLEASE explain to me why the average viewer prefers long-form over live weather? I just for the life of me don't understand it.

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Local Forecast / Re: Recently received Trammell Starks' LF CDs

« on: January 15, 2011, 10:44:24 PM »

I'd love to hear new Trammell music on a regular TWC playlist.

Me too. I wish TWC wouldn't classify his music as "Emergency Feed" or "error" music, although I know they used to use it on the playlist regularly a long while ago.

Thanks for the information Billy...hopefully we can hear some of his songs on a normal playlist soon.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Nicole Mitchell's Last Night

« on: January 15, 2011, 10:23:28 PM »

I'm going to hope that THIS was not Nicole's last broadcast ever. (although, it DID happen on her last night...)

(Video Courtesy: Trevor Birchett)

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Local Forecast / Re: Recently received Trammell Starks' LF CDs

« on: January 15, 2011, 10:13:36 PM »

The music in quite nice. Does anyone here who is familiar with that music have any favourite tracks? Mine are Life, Evening, & Memories of the Past.

You are so lucky...I LOVE Trammell's music. Don't even get me started on my favorites...

“Care Free”
“A New Day”
“Good Ole’ Times”
“Jamaican Jam”
“Evening”
“Good Times”
“Seasons on Edge”/”Do you Believe?”
“Lazy Days”
“Fair Weather”
“Easy Times”

The list goes on and on and on...

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Updates and link

« on: January 15, 2011, 10:11:23 PM »

That is odd, Martin. But they seem to be both appearing now for me. BTW, is "Today" supposed to only have "Local Forecast Music" and "Chat" as the drop-down menu options?

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Nicole Mitchell's Last Night

« on: January 15, 2011, 10:08:40 PM »

It'll be sad to see her go. I randomly searched a YouTube video last night showing some funny moments with Nicole and Paul on WC.

But wait, I thought she was supposed to be off-air about a month or so ago.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: January 15, 2011, 10:06:59 PM »

I am recording and the video will be up shortly.

What happened:
The local forecast ended.
It was time for a weather update, but obviously they weren't ready. The lights were off and nothing was being keyed out.
They then abruptly cut off Nichole (who was talking like nothing happened) and went to Trammell.
Trammell lasted about 15 seconds, before going to Cantore Stories.

Sounds like a big FAIL on the live weather update. It's great that we can count on TWC to give us the latest on weather updates when they show all this long-form .

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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday

« on: January 15, 2011, 04:12:03 PM »

I don't think any of the 6.5 inches of snow I got on my side of the street has melted due to the sheet of ice that accumulated on top of it I'm sure acting as a shield from the sunlight, but the same can't be said for the other side of the street virtually all gone and has been for the past couple of days. The sun always kills the snowfall on that side of the street, but on my side it sticks around for a week or longer even if it rains or it gets up into the 50's/60's!

All the snowfall (well, a miniscule less than one inch) is finally gone. But it lasted almost a week because of darn cold temperatures and lack of sun.

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TWC Today News / Re: Forum Upgrade RC4

« on: January 15, 2011, 03:56:07 PM »

For the entire old "curve" theme, the forum is "stretched" much further to each end of the screen (not sure what the proper terminology to describe this is). But, for example, on the TWC Today main site, there is a bunch of blank space on either side of the "table"...well, this no longer exists on the older theme.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Updates and link

« on: January 15, 2011, 03:50:55 PM »

Still playing around with things but I did put a drop down for each site. Any thoughts Matt? It still needs tweaking but let me know if you like the idea

I don't see it, but I've found that people generally don't like drop-down menus.

I see a link for "Today" but not for "Classics." And, although I am not the admin, I like the idea of the drop-down menu under "Today", ESPECIALLY for the chat. That makes life a whole lot easier (for me anyways).

EDIT: Looks like it has been added...thanks guys.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Updates and link

« on: January 14, 2011, 07:13:02 PM »

Definetely a good idea! An even better thing to do (if this is possible) is add tabs that say "TWC Today Home" and "TWC Classics Home". So, for example, the tabs would be something like this:

TWC Today Home     TWC Classics Home     Forum Home     Help     Board Guidelines     Search     Profile     My Messages     etc.....

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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday

« on: January 13, 2011, 09:41:50 PM »

We only got less than an inch of snow, and some is still on the ground because it is so darn cold here.

I can imagine 30° seems cold in Dallas!  In Massachusetts, it's quite a good day, and in Russia, where I lived for quite a while, it's a veritable heat wave!

You're definetely right about that. I dislike any temperature under 60 degrees, but I'm sure anything above 40 is like a heatwave in Massachusetts, right?

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Winter Weather / Re: Possible Winter Storm in the south Sunday and Monday

« on: January 12, 2011, 10:45:53 PM »

We only got less than an inch of snow, and some is still on the ground because it is so darn cold here.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Alexandra Steele Let Go

« on: January 12, 2011, 09:38:41 PM »

I wonder how Rich Johnson would know anything about this (unless all laid-off OCMs keep in contact with each other or something like that).