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Present - The Weather Channel 2000 => Programming and Graphics => Topic started by: NorEastorm on January 23, 2015, 08:58:05 PM
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A major winter Storm is fast approaching the northeast and TWC has decided showing reality crap is better then having the weather on. For work and my occupation storms are part of the job and we need to know what's up. Granted we can read everything on NWS website and read discussions. But it would be nice to have a weather channel on a TV that actually shows weather and OCMs talking to us and explaining what's going on. I give up on this channel. I gave up long ago, but now that's it. Oh I long for the days when I could turn on the TWC, especially with a major storm was approaching and I got the weather and a solid local forecast. Put this station out of its misery already.
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We all know TWC shows a lot of long form but even by 2013 standards this is a little unusual. This storm is to bring snow that will need to be shoveled and TWC would usually preempt. I've noticed this "not show weather even though we're getting 18+ inches" thing in the last couple of months. Surprisingly around the time TWC last laid off employees. This is probably the reason as well as the cut back in live programming.
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There will be extended coverage tomorrow until 8pm, according to Mike Seidel in Twitter.
https://twitter.com/mikeseidel/status/558778954031443968
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A major winter Storm is fast approaching the northeast and TWC has decided showing reality crap is better then having the weather on. For work and my occupation storms are part of the job and we need to know what's up. Granted we can read everything on NWS website and read discussions. But it would be nice to have a weather channel on a TV that actually shows weather and OCMs talking to us and explaining what's going on. I give up on this channel. I gave up long ago, but now that's it. Oh I long for the days when I could turn on the TWC, especially with a major storm was approaching and I got the weather and a solid local forecast. Put this station out of its misery already.
Watch your local stations? :unsure:
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Your right. But you know when you work in emergency services and would like to have the weather channel with their updates and ocm's talking about the storm its helps. We like watching the coverage. Or did. For years the channel has declined we I know, we all know but this is bad. And now I take to Twitter to read meteorologist and amatures state more snow then expected is going to fall now. But hey having that on TV is not important. Then again weather witness you probably work for TWC and helped lead it to the decline we see today.
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Then again weather witness you probably work for TWC and helped lead it to the decline we see today.
Excuse me, but this statement is not correct, and there is absolutely no reason for you to jump to such conclusions. <_< I, too, do not like the direction in which TWC has gone and wish they would provide more coverage. I don't like all the long-form and the more entertainment-based morning shows. However, members of these forums have complained and complained about the current state of TWC, and nothing has changed. And I do not think it will change, unfortunately.
It's perfectly fine to provide your opinion, and I agree with you on what you said. I was simply suggesting that if you needed weather coverage, you may be able to tune-in to your local stations which would be providing coverage. It's not like The Weather Channel is the only channel out there which provides weather information.
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I hardly watch anymore because I don't know if weather coverage is on or not. :hmm:
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Any word on if TWC is doing extended coverage today? They should!!
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Any word on if TWC is doing extended coverage today? They should!!
If they don't they definitely would all day monday.
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Weather witness I apologize with my tone and blaming you. Very frustrated with how coverage is BEFORE storm hits. Before local stations start coverage. Very frustrating a great product was ruined
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Any word on if TWC is doing extended coverage today? They should!!
Pretty sure Greg Postel just said they'll be live from 7-11pm tonight.
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There will be a special report from 7-midnight. I'm glad they're coming on for prime time, but you'd think that with an event of this magnitude they would have all hands on deck and be on all day. I mean, this is why TWC exists, isn't it?
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There will be a special report from 7-11. I'm glad they're coming on for prime time, but you'd think that with an event of this magnitude they would have all hands on deck and be on all day. I mean, this is why TWC exists, isn't it?
You would think. I heard on CNN that this is like a Cat 5 Trop. Storm. Now whether that's true of just CNN hype, IDK. If that's really true, TWC needs a talking too by someone! I don't know who.
It shocks me that TWC's viewing audience hasn't woken up yet and keeps letting TWC get away with longform when there's severe weather to work on. I would think NYC's mayor would have some words for TWC if we watched this PM. Unless he just watched WCL or local news this morning and hasn't tuned in since.
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This is in the general thread but TWC is in red mode tonight. They're planning wall to wall coverage. I have not heard when it will start.
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We might have TWC Live until midnight. Kelly Cass just tweeted midnight.
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There will be a special report from 7-11. I'm glad they're coming on for prime time, but you'd think that with an event of this magnitude they would have all hands on deck and be on all day. I mean, this is why TWC exists, isn't it?
You would think. I heard on CNN that this is like a Cat 5 Trop. Storm. Now whether that's true of just CNN hype, IDK. If that's really true, TWC needs a talking too by someone! I don't know who.
It shocks me that TWC's viewing audience hasn't woken up yet and keeps letting TWC get away with longform when there's severe weather to work on. I would think NYC's mayor would have some words for TWC if we watched this PM. Unless he just watched WCL or local news this morning and hasn't tuned in since.
What's a category 5 tropical storm? I've never heard of tropical storms having categories. Sounds like CNN hype to me.
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A great column on Mediaite about TWC's programming today...
http://www.mediaite.com/online/with-historic-blizzard-about-to-bury-northeast-weather-channel-takes-day-off-offers-taped-programming/ (http://www.mediaite.com/online/with-historic-blizzard-about-to-bury-northeast-weather-channel-takes-day-off-offers-taped-programming/)
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TWC Is live streaming Winter Storm Juno coverage on weather.com, but I can't seem to get it to work. :thinking:
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TWC is preempting all long form for the storm's duration.
http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/the-weather-channel-prepares-for-storm-coverage/253600 (http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/the-weather-channel-prepares-for-storm-coverage/253600)
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The weather channel is preempting for weather.
Wow. I'm impressed.
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Well as much as I and a few of us criticize TWC they were the most accurate of anyone I follow on TV and social media. Where I am north of nyc they said we would get 2ft +. We got 5-8 and TWC yesterday was actually saying that when everyone else still had us for 24-36inches. My one problem was that on Sunday TWC should have been on all day informing people and they failed us. Cantore and there last year blasted Weather Nation and others saying TWC would be here informing us like no one else when storms were coming. I feel let down. Even though I di t watch them like I used to instill tune in for a big storm. Especially a day or so before it's predicted to hit. No local channels are going to break from regular TV if the storm is not here. Seriously TWC and NBC it's time to make changes.
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Sadly this is now becoming and standard thing for TWC to no longer cover storms between 12am and 5am ET.
At 12am ET on Feb 2nd they ended storm coverage for reality shows and were not live again till 4am ET.
The same on Feb 8th they were live all day till 11pm ET when they went to reality shows and storm coverage was not back till 5am ET.
While TWC did stay live overnight on the 15th once again at 12am on Feb 17th they went to taped programming and were not covering the active storm again till Wake Up With Al came on.
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bumping this after 2 months, TWC is really missing from the action of a major severe weather outbreak in North & Central TX where all the local TV stations in the DFW area is on live nonstop coverage on the storms which includes Tornado Warnings with possible long range tornadoes on the ground. this is :censored: ing bull :censored:
i hope for this storm to be deadly so we can blame The Weather Channel's lack of coverage on the deaths of people, who's lives are in jeopardy in this severe thunderstorm/tornado outbreak
BTW, i am not wanting people to die in this, but sometimes death is needed so TWC can have their wake up call.
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Seriously?
It does not make sense to me at all to say "if someone died it's the weather channel's fault for not doing coverage." If someone died, it would have been more like because they were caught at the wrong place and couldn't get shelter and/or not letting themselves be informed about the situation.
While it would be nice to see coverage for a national audience about this situation, I would think and hope that most people in the area threatened would choose local media over the weather channel.
To say weather channel not doing coverage causes deaths is quite ludicrous, IMO.
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i hope for this storm to be deadly so we can blame The Weather Channel's lack of coverage on the deaths of people
I'm sorry, but this is one of the most absurd posts I've seen on this board. If you don't like how TWC covers storms find another source. But hoping for more deaths for any reason is just wrong.
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i hope for this storm to be deadly so we can blame The Weather Channel's lack of coverage on the deaths of people
I'm sorry, but this is one of the most absurd posts I've seen on this board. If you don't like how TWC covers storms find another source. But hoping for more deaths for any reason is just wrong.
According to The Weather Channel's Post Moore Tornado commercial, they said TWC was a valuable recourse that saves lives. So what I think Willh699 is getting at is TWC is not living up to that statement.
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The Weather Network is weather 24/7 :)
I definitely miss Mike Bettes though.
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While I agree that TWC may not have the most decent coverage out there right now, you gotta face the fact that there are still people that actually disagree. Right now I'm following Invest91L coverage that's gonna hit here in Houston, because all my local media outlets haven't started coverage just yet. I'm surprised that they are throwing all the information they can out there to the people that actually need it. Still, you may want to confirm with your local media, but TWC tries their best to inform citizens affected by weather disasters. I feel they are improving slowly.
The Weather Network is weather 24/7 :)
I definitely miss Mike Bettes though.
I just saw him live at Houston just now.