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General Discussion / Re: ABC Family to Become ABCF

« on: August 09, 2010, 03:32:12 PM »

I'm not surprised at all. In fact, it makes sense. I've asked for awhile why it's called ABC Family, when judging from its programming, it clearly is not a "family" channel. Sure, they're nowhere near as bad as MTV, but having the word family in the channel name is rather misleading.

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General Discussion / Re: "Beavis and Butthead" Returning to MTV with New Episodes

« on: August 09, 2010, 03:25:15 PM »

Oddly enough, the show still fits on MTV. In fact, I think it fits even more. MTV is basically the go-to cable network for all things trash.

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The Game Room / Re: Movie One-Liners! (Message reply game)

« on: August 05, 2010, 09:55:14 PM »

Airplane

"Nothing to be embarassed about, I sometimes go by my maiden name."

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Local Forecast / Re: August 2010 playlist

« on: August 03, 2010, 03:28:14 PM »

Terry Coleman was in Physical Therapy?

Yep

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Local Forecast / Re: Weatherstar 3000

« on: August 01, 2010, 10:38:41 PM »

ID the music

Looks like someone just did.

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Local Forecast / Re: Song Identification needed

« on: July 31, 2010, 10:17:56 PM »

I thought 1999 was the release of "Stormy Weather".

"Stormy Weather" was released in 1998. The "1999 TWC Music" cassette contained the final set of music they composed.

Why does an Artist make their music unavailable?  It makes no sense to make the music unavailable so new listeners can't get it.

Artists don't "make" their music unavailable. Publishers just stop publishing them when they can turn a profit. Making CDs isn't free, you know.

However, I don't see why they couldn't have made their recordings available as mp3 downloads (unless the masters are gone).

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Local Forecast / Re: Song Identification needed

« on: July 31, 2010, 02:28:46 AM »

"With You" is from Ficara's first album, "Tribal Jazz." It was widely available at one time, but I guess all of their work is now unavailable.

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OCMs / Bonnie McLaughlin

« on: July 28, 2010, 10:53:11 AM »

Is this the same Bonnie McLaughlin of Weather Channel fame? If so, she has not aged well.

http://www.fox21online.com/staff/bonnie-mclaughlin

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Local Forecast / Re: Song Identification needed

« on: July 26, 2010, 12:01:22 AM »

"Flight Feet and Root Hands- Andreas Vollenweider" was used in the 80s.

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The Game Room / Re: Movie One-Liners! (Message reply game)

« on: July 25, 2010, 11:52:27 PM »

Forrest Gump

"Renfield, I fly...you don't."

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The Game Room / Re: Movie One-Liners! (Message reply game)

« on: July 25, 2010, 02:38:45 PM »

Terminator 2? The quote before LOT8s was also from Hot Shots Part Deux.

"A Jew? Here?"

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Local Forecast / Re: Help! April 1991 Local Forecast Music

« on: July 22, 2010, 10:29:29 AM »

It's called Limelight by Spyro Gyra!

Really? Wow. That was used in '89, not '91.

Anyway, glad you found it.

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General Discussion / Re: When did you start watching The Weather Channel?

« on: July 21, 2010, 10:23:22 AM »

November 15th, 1993

1st ever twc song i heard

TWC Local Forecast M Flavor 1993

Wow, that's amazing that someone posted the first LF you saw.

For me, it was February 26, 1992 at 10:26am. The first song I heard was "Fiesta Sol" by Max Groove.

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Videos!

« on: July 16, 2010, 11:37:51 AM »

From a programmer's viewpoint, I can appreciate the amount of work it likely took to do this. Looking at it that way, it is quite impressive.

From a viewer viewpoint, however, I don't like it (shocking, I know). First of all, there is too much information on the screen at one time. So I often don't know what to look at.

The screens go by way too fast. Their programmers and testers must be really fast readers!

My biggest complaint, though, is the needless "flair." When I say "flair," I mean things like the animated picture of what weather will be like in the 36 hour forecast and the glowing line that goes across the tops of the yellow bars on the hourly forecast. And then there's that REALLY bright sun that "rises" on the left in the Almanac. Wow! I half expected puppies and kittens to come out and start licking the screen. Seriously, keep it simple. Less is more.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Redesigned website coming soon!

« on: July 16, 2010, 10:34:45 AM »

I noticed it's still in Beta though.

It's only been a few days. With a site as large as weather.com, beta testing could take weeks.