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Offline wxmediafan

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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #75 on: May 29, 2010, 02:19:22 PM »
Quote from: cc17926 on May 29, 2010, 02:17:18 PM
for sake of argument, ive noticed a bunch of programming changes since the dishnet/twc situation. im sure anyone whose payed attention to what happens between 8pm-4am has noticed what i mean. also 3pm ive noticed something different too.
Not enough time to watch TWC, can you let us know what these changes are?  :unsure:
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #76 on: May 29, 2010, 02:22:14 PM »
Well one thing I have noticed is that advertising for Flick and a Forecast has been dialed back a bit in recent weeks. More promotion for products and services (Notify and iWitness), in addition to ads that are attempts to make TWC look good. Reasoning seems obvious to me. :P
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #77 on: May 29, 2010, 02:24:13 PM »
Quote from: cc17926 on May 29, 2010, 02:17:18 PM
for sake of argument, ive noticed a bunch of programming changes since the dishnet/twc situation. im sure anyone whose payed attention to what happens between 8pm-4am has noticed what i mean. also 3pm ive noticed something different too.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. The whole Dish/TWC dispute may have changed how TWC does their longform programming. I can bet y'all that this coming Friday we wont even see Flick and a Forecast again.
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #78 on: May 29, 2010, 02:36:41 PM »
I haven't seen a single ad about FAAF in more than a week, then again I don't watch TWC hours a day anymore like you guys.
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #79 on: May 29, 2010, 04:27:10 PM »
Hopefully it's gone for good, but I'm not too hopeful. Right now my guide is showing "Riding Giants" airing next Friday. Apparently it's some 2004 documentary about the evolution of surfing. Sounds riveting.
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #80 on: May 29, 2010, 05:20:14 PM »
Quote from: crp88 on May 29, 2010, 04:27:10 PM
Hopefully it's gone for good, but I'm not too hopeful. Right now my guide is showing "Riding Giants" airing next Friday. Apparently it's some 2004 documentary about the evolution of surfing. Sounds riveting.
Guess we are going back into the old random shows in the NBC library like that Atlantis thing.
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #81 on: May 29, 2010, 09:47:13 PM »
What exactly is the point of them replacing FAF with longform during those hours? It would help to just bring back the regular TWC programming
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #82 on: May 29, 2010, 10:44:23 PM »
Quote from: Localonthe8s on May 29, 2010, 09:47:13 PM
What exactly is the point of them replacing FAF with longform during those hours? It would help to just bring back the regular TWC programming
Supposedly ratings on Friday nights are low which TWC thinks is an excuse to not show live programming...
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #83 on: May 30, 2010, 12:11:49 AM »
Hmm, I have been wondering this for a while.  Where does the "forecast" part in "Flick and a Forecast" come in? I am assuming it's just Local on the 8's?
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #84 on: May 30, 2010, 01:31:15 AM »
Quote from: wxmediafan on May 30, 2010, 12:11:49 AM
Hmm, I have been wondering this for a while.  Where does the "forecast" part in "Flick and a Forecast" come in? I am assuming it's just Local on the 8's?
Correct.
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #85 on: May 30, 2010, 08:42:50 AM »
Quote from: wxmediafan on May 30, 2010, 12:11:49 AM
Hmm, I have been wondering this for a while.  Where does the "forecast" part in "Flick and a Forecast" come in? I am assuming it's just Local on the 8's?

That, and the LDL, when it's on.  I've never watched "Flick and a Forecast" for more than a few seconds at a time, but there have been times when I tuned in and even the LDL was gone!  In fact, that's when the TWC logo was made transparent.  So, it was basically just "Flick" with not even the remotest idea of a "Forecast" anywhere.

Isn't that what the LDL is supposed to do... provide weather information?  On The Weather Channel?  And some big wig exec came to the decision that the LDL is now superfluous, what with all that weather information distracting from a fine feature film in NBC's library?!  :censored: :censored: :censored:
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #86 on: May 30, 2010, 11:19:59 AM »
Quote from: Mike M on May 30, 2010, 10:55:41 AM
Quote from: jtmal0723 on May 30, 2010, 01:31:15 AM
Quote from: wxmediafan on May 30, 2010, 12:11:49 AM
Hmm, I have been wondering this for a while.  Where does the "forecast" part in "Flick and a Forecast" come in? I am assuming it's just Local on the 8's?
Correct.
You know this for sure after contacts with TWC?

Is there any other answer?  "Flick and a Forecast" has existed for a while now, and if there happened to be another part of the "Forecast," wouldn't we have found out by now?
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #87 on: May 30, 2010, 11:26:12 AM »
I never liked "Flick and a Forecast". I just wish The Weather Channel would actually report the weather continously like they used to instead of playing the same episodes of Storm Stories and When Weather Changed History hours a day.
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #88 on: May 30, 2010, 11:33:42 AM »
Quote from: twcfan68 on May 30, 2010, 11:26:12 AM
I never liked "Flick and a Forecast". I just wish The Weather Channel would actually report the weather continously like they used to instead of playing the same episodes of Storm Stories and When Weather Changed History hours a day.

I'm being optimistic, but if this hurricane season turns out to be anything close to active as 2005 or 2004 like I believe it will be, we might see a lot of that put on the back burner. I'm hoping we'll get that side of TWC back, they were always at their best doing hurricane coverage.
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Re: "Flick > Forecast"
« Reply #89 on: May 30, 2010, 02:02:50 PM »
I too dislike "Flick and a Forecast", but it seems like NBC likes to add this type of programming to the channels that they own. Even CNBC is going to show movies on friday nights, although this just seems for the summer:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37218663/COMING_THIS_SUMMER_CNBC_PRESENTS_CNBC_CINEMA

Plus there news network (MSNBC) is a joke when it comes to news coverage on weekends or holidays. They'd rather show Lockup or other crime documentaries.
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