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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Local and Travel Forecast

« on: January 04, 2014, 02:28:08 PM »

Untitled is "Celestial Body" by Dan Siegel.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Local and Travel Forecast

« on: January 02, 2014, 12:05:26 AM »

Fixed the page title, thanks! If I understand you correctly, yes, if a song isn't blue and underlined, then I don't have a clip of that song.

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Wayback Playback - Jan 7 1996 - The Blizzard of 1996

« on: December 31, 2013, 10:25:07 AM »

Matt/Eric, I'm glad you enjoyed.. Here is another video, from the Blizzard of '96

I remember that time well. The storm was no where near me, but I remember wondering what this new music was. I liked how they faded into almost every song too.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Local and Travel Forecast

« on: December 29, 2013, 01:45:31 PM »

I don't have clips for them. At least not from TWC.

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Local Forecast / Re: Jeff Stern

« on: December 28, 2013, 04:59:35 PM »

I definitely recognize "Poco Bahia," but not the other song. Great find. Thanks Gary!

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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Wayback Playback

« on: December 24, 2013, 06:19:15 PM »

I've been watching these as you've posted them. Good stuff! I especially liked today's post from Christmas 1994. I think that was the last Christmas playlist where almost every song was good.

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Local Forecast / Re: Christmas playlist 2013

« on: December 15, 2013, 02:24:56 PM »

I don't know how people who still watch TWC haven't gone insane hearing the same song over and over and...

Matt, I know you are not too fond of that song, but I like tradition. However, I can understand why some people (like yourself) would get tired of hearing it over, and over again. You're probably not alone.

I think he's talking about the two LOT8s songs being used since the new format, not ISTS... 

Yes, I was talking about the two (I thought it was one, they sound almost the same) production songs that have been playing non-stop since the relaunch.

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Local Forecast / Re: Christmas playlist 2013

« on: December 14, 2013, 03:09:41 PM »

I don't know how people who still watch TWC haven't gone insane hearing the same song over and over and...

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Local Forecast / Re: RIP ~ Real Music

« on: December 09, 2013, 03:24:28 PM »

People used to tell me that even though they had satellite radio, they'd leave their TV on the Weather Channel instead simply because they enjoyed the music.  But when they re-branded to playing pretty random selections - they lost that following too - there's nothing unique or special about their current music.  Now their production value is more like a very expensive power point presentation.

This was definitely the case for me in the 90s. We had a few radio stations and shows in town that played jazz and newage, but they never lasted. So TWC was (at the time) my primary source for that kind of music. That all changed in the early 2000s when they started moving towards rock instrumentals, more traditional jazz, and newage piano.

While the slow eroding of weather coverage, dumbing down of forecasts and analysis, and hiring of "pretty" weather presenters were my primary reasons for watching less and less (until it become nothing), the change in music selections definitely didn't help.

Sites like Youtube and services like Pandora have helped fill the void, but I still miss those days!

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Local Forecast / Re: Have these songs played on the weather channel before?

« on: December 09, 2013, 12:42:38 AM »

What about Morning Song by The Rippingtons?

Not that I'm aware of.

Yes, it was used in March 2000.

Really? I looked at that playlist on my site and this, and it's not on there.

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Local Forecast / Re: Have these songs played on the weather channel before?

« on: December 08, 2013, 06:08:05 PM »

What about Morning Song by The Rippingtons?

Not that I'm aware of.

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General Weather Chat / Re: Walker's Winter Outlook 2013-2014

« on: December 07, 2013, 02:32:40 PM »

One of our local weather guys does something similar:

http://www.jrn.com/kmtv/news/Jim-Flowers-Winter-Weather-Forecast-232610941.html

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Local Forecast / Re: RIP ~ Real Music

« on: December 04, 2013, 03:18:10 PM »

I want to encourage them not to take the easy way out and just use a third party music service but, instead have a steady flow of original music written specifically for their audience.

I think that's a great idea! I believe someone posted here awhile back that TWC will be swapping out the two production tracks soon. Though that was awhile back, so who knows what "soon" really means.

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Weatherscan 2003-2004, 2004-2006, 2006-2007 music playlists download link?

« on: November 23, 2013, 03:08:41 PM »

Anything else we can do for you?

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: IS Flavor Guide Errors

« on: November 20, 2013, 10:19:12 AM »

Wow, I had no idea the really old site was still up!