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Local Forecast / Re: Question about songs airing on multiple flavors in the 1990s

« on: July 06, 2024, 02:18:14 PM »

There's something else I've noticed, consistently, "Outside Solaris" by "Clifford Marshall Van Buren" played as an M flavor, but consistently used the L flavor narration, do you know what happened? Did it eventually play as an L with the L narration, was the narration eventually corrected for the M or did it keep playing as an M with L narration? And do you know how that song worked on the 3000 with its narration?

My guess is that the song was initially selected as a L, but they changed it to a M at the last minute. I'm not sure how the narration worked back then. Whether it was recorded on to the song or added every time the song aired. Either way, when they changed it from a L to a M, they didn't bother to change the narration.

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Local Forecast / Re: Question about songs airing on multiple flavors in the 1990s

« on: June 28, 2024, 08:39:01 PM »

I found an old post where you got excited when "Seguaro" played as a BTF song during a J flavor in 1993 due to an error since you never heard it past the :53 mark before. For a lot of people, that was a blast from the past, previously regularly playing on J flavor LFs in 1990 and 1991.

Yah, I was surprised to discover that "Seguaro" was played before I started watching.

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Local Forecast / Re: Question about songs airing on multiple flavors in the 1990s

« on: June 21, 2024, 06:22:38 PM »

The songs were randomly played by a computer. That's how they cued so fast. Why BTF songs played at times, I don't know. You'd have to ask someone that worked there in Master Control, but it's an "error" I saw all the time back then. In fact, there were times I looked forward to it because sometimes they'd play the BTF song longer than 53 seconds.

Here's an example from 1992 from my site:

https://twcclassics.com/watch.php?file=coconut-roads

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Local Forecast / Re: Question about songs airing on multiple flavors in the 1990s

« on: June 14, 2024, 09:08:31 PM »

Trust me, BTF songs were always played when the regular playlist failed to play. I've witnessed this dozens of times. And yes, it was a technical error. All songs were played at random by a computer, not a person. I don't know how it worked beyond that.

And yes, "Recollections" was used as a L flavor too. I actually have a recording of it in my update queue. And yes, "Morning In Martinique" was also an "E." I'm sure I could find an example of that.

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Local Forecast / Re: Question about songs airing on multiple flavors in the 1990s

« on: June 07, 2024, 05:19:07 PM »

No, it was not used as a M, J, or L. At least not officially. It might have played during those flavors when the music computer or whatever failed to play a valid song. A good rule of thumb when you find videos like this is that if there's no narration, it's probably just a BTF song playing.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trying to find Eddie Reasoner songs

« on: October 20, 2023, 07:00:46 PM »

Yes, I would email or contact him on Facebook.

Do you know his email? If you do, could you PM it to me please? 
I'm not on Facebook.

No, I don't. Sorry. It's been years since I've talked to him.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Starks Info

« on: October 14, 2023, 02:46:17 PM »

Does anyone know if he’s still selling CDs in 2023? I found compilations on YouTube, but would prefer to support the artist, if possible. 😊

I'm friends with him on Facebook. As far as I know, he's still sending out CDs.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trying to find Eddie Reasoner songs

« on: October 14, 2023, 02:45:56 PM »

Yes, I would email or contact him on Facebook.

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General Discussion / Re: This is a test

« on: June 30, 2023, 09:44:56 PM »

I check new posts once a week.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Video Forecasts from weather.com from the late 2000s

« on: May 19, 2023, 01:19:21 PM »

Can't say I've ever seen those before.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Video Forecasts from weather.com from the late 2000s

« on: May 12, 2023, 06:25:49 PM »

Can you link to an example or two?

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Local Forecast / Re: Song ID Thread

« on: May 05, 2023, 06:44:51 PM »

Hello! I've been looking for the title and artist of this song since last summer, but I've had no luck. I was wondering if anyone here knew what it would be? Thank you in advance!

https://youtu.be/AjAxsWgEexI

As far as I know, no one has been able to identify the artist of that one. I assumed it was Stephen Arnold Music, but recently learned that isn't the case.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: The Weather Channel Winter Moviefest

« on: February 10, 2023, 07:36:08 PM »

I don't watch TWC anymore, so it doesn't bother me.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: looking for a clip fom early 90s

« on: January 13, 2023, 07:02:36 PM »

Sorry, I came up empty. No live or recorded reports about Gustav.

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Starks Info

« on: January 13, 2023, 06:59:58 PM »

I know it's been like 5 years since the last post here, but does anyone know if there's an active email address at all for him? Or if he still sells the songs on disk at all? His website and MySpace seem to have gone down.

I would listen to his Christmas music, can I have a link

I don't believe he's ever made any Christmas music.