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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable

« on: February 15, 2014, 03:25:55 PM »

My problem with Comcast buying TWC is when Comcast bought Adelphia, they promised great service blah blah blah. Here we are years and years later, and my Pap still doesn't have the same "okay" service that I had with Comcast before we switched to Verizon. He still doesn't have the new guide that long-time Comcast customers have, or even access to all the same channels. Seems like they only really care about their long-time service areas.

Exactly. I don't have a problem with large companies. However, when companies expand like this, things usually get worse in terms of customer service. Which would also be fine, as long as there are competitors. But what usually happens is the larger companies lobby congress to create regulations that benefit them. And desperate for campaign donations, they usually say yes.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable

« on: February 13, 2014, 10:27:33 AM »

Imagine the day when Comcast buys all of its competitors and becomes the only cable TV/internet/phone provider in the country.      I certainly hope that doesn't become a reality.

It probably will if we don't ease up on regulations that make it impossible for someone to start a new company (or last more than a year). Like finance, cable TV is heavily regulated.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Dan Chandler outside of TWC

« on: February 09, 2014, 09:32:00 PM »

Is Dan based in Atlanta? Back in the day, he probably had to live there. Although since the '90s a lot of voiceover work can be done from anywhere.

Yes, I believe so. Maybe not Atlanta proper, but somewhere close to it.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Dan Chandler outside of TWC

« on: February 09, 2014, 03:09:15 PM »

Wow, Dan before working for TWC. Nice find!

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Searching for TWC footage from the Summer of 1989

« on: January 31, 2014, 12:07:53 AM »

If you could get an exact date, that would help. I browsed through my footage from that summer, and I didn't see any reports about NYC. The closest thing I suppose was a TWC and several local reports of a tornado that hit near Philadelphia in early June.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Searching for TWC footage from the Summer of 1989

« on: January 30, 2014, 10:29:49 AM »

I might have something. Do you remember the date (or at the very least the month)?

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 23, 2014, 08:21:27 PM »

Something just came in now - they've written an open letter asking DTV to waive cancellation fees.  It's in PDF format, so I've included the text - in full - below.

That is hysterical! The ego of their current CEO is quite impressive.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Late 80s station ID, unknown song

« on: January 18, 2014, 12:29:03 AM »

I thought I had posted it to YouTube, but apparently not. So I just did!

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 18, 2014, 12:26:44 AM »

Wish they could change the music too. I can't be the only one who is tired of the same two songs playing on the LF

I got tired of hearing the song in videos. I can't imagine what it would be like to actually watch TWC and hear that for hours on end!

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 15, 2014, 03:36:34 PM »

I think it's also worth mentioning that even if you have DirecTV, you can still access weather.com. Which I would argue is more accessible than a satellite channel. But then again, weather.com has also become a train wreck over the last few years. I just counted the weather and non-weather stories on the home page. There were 84 stories total with 24 or 29% of them having to do with weather, and 60 or 71% having to do with something other than the weather. Wow!

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 14, 2014, 08:56:14 PM »

Apparently a new OCM joined the network yesterday, and I'm already not liking her:
https://www.facebook.com/Meteorologist.Kait.Parker/posts/10101988944860510?comment_id=17792508&reply_comment_id=17792655&total_comments=8

Wow, what a snob! Very unprofessional and not a very good way to change minds.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Promos and Segments

« on: January 12, 2014, 02:56:23 PM »

Fixed! The file paths were wrong. And have apparently been wrong since that page was created! Thanks for letting me know.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 11, 2014, 06:21:44 PM »

KeepTheWeatherChannel.com is a joke. The title of the main page (ie. "Don't Let DirecTV control the weather") alone makes me wanna puke. I also noticed that there is no mention on the site as to why DirecTV is threatening to drop the channel. It just says DirecTV is going to drop it unless you call them and your congress person. I don't have a problem with them asking viewers to call DirecTV, but why in the world are they asking congress to get involved!?

Whether it's because of a lack of weather programming or because TWC wants more money, I side with DirecTV. And I'm no fan of DirecTV (even though I have them). It really irks me when channels try to solve their budget issues by sticking it to the cable companies (and in turn their subscribers). If you can't afford to operate within your current budget, then obviously you need to cut some expenses or find a way to earn more money without raising your prices directly or indirectly.

The idea that millions will die if TWC isn't available on DirecTV is bull and they know it. And to see Jim Cantore pimping this campaign of fear is just sad. I thought he had more integrity than that.

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Local Forecast / Re: Local on the 8's used as backround TV show in upcomeing game

« on: January 08, 2014, 09:33:22 PM »

I don't see it in the video. I see them watching some weather thing, but it's clearly a fake news station.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Wayback Playback

« on: January 05, 2014, 08:00:12 PM »

This Wayback Playback is different from the one Charles put together is it not?

Yes. Charles' was a collection of LF videos within a specific playlist. cc17926 is posting chunks of programming from random dates.