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Local Forecast / Re: Smooth Jazz returns? August 2025

« Last post by crazybangles on September 01, 2025, 01:09:15 AM »

They have been doing this for about the last week and a half now. There's been some surprisingly decent music in the playlist.

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Local Forecast / Re: Smooth Jazz returns? August 2025

« Last post by TWCJim on August 31, 2025, 11:12:31 PM »

I did capture what sounded like a Smooth Jazz track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXLVC4hv984

Per YouTube's content ID system, that one's called "End Of The Rainbow", and it appears to come from the Transition Music library, which The Weather Channel has been using the music from on the LFs for the last couple of years or so.

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Local Forecast / Smooth Jazz returns? August 2025

« Last post by JB711 on August 31, 2025, 03:22:13 PM »

Hi. Has anyone else noticed that TWC has been playing jazz or smooth jazz during the local forecasts?
It just played during an LF while "Katrina 20" was on. 

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General Discussion / Re: News Music Package Trading Thread??

« Last post by DanielC4074 on August 23, 2025, 05:21:21 PM »

Probably extremely late for this but I have some Gari packages (mainly incomplete, Hello News and News Station are the only ones I'm fairly certain are complete). Willing to trade for any Stephen Arnold packages (particularly looking for Canvas, Signature, Overture, Extreme, Metropolis and U-Phonix). Probably pointless since this thread hasn't been active for ten years but who knows.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC's Retro 8s Live

« Last post by pjfrix on July 11, 2025, 04:30:35 AM »

I "never" thought we'd see it again, at all. So I was surprised. It recieved positive feedback in '23.

A lot of people I know were surprised it came back at all. You'd think after that couple month long run in 2023 (as Bangles implied in an earlier post, it was reported to last even shorter than it did) they would just never attempt it ever again.

There's always a chance it returns again 1 day then. xD

Maybe next Retro Day. Methinks these instances are to be annual. That is, unless either TWC or AMG (who owns & operates the channel) decides otherwise. (they've had a history of that from what I've heard)

At least there's the many simulators or the stream TWC tried taking down while the near-daily version was still on-air. (and that one run even runs on the real hardware! Even better if you ask me.)

(edit: If the stream linked goes down by the time any dweller reads this, I'm probably not going to edit this post with the new one. Just go to cc17926's YouTube channel and it should be right there.)

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC's Retro 8s Live

« Last post by JB711 on July 10, 2025, 12:38:40 AM »

They brought it back!?! Awesome. I always wondered if they would.

I figured they stopped b/c it cost too much & as I've said before, they're low in funds.

It returning for a Wednesdays-Fridays look would be nice. "Wayback Wed., Throwback Th., Flashback Fridays"

Its an iconic TWC look. Thanks to those of you who still update this site every now & then. 

I don't think it Returned........

I "never" thought we'd see it again, at all. So I was surprised. It recieved positive feedback in '23. There's always a chance it returns again 1 day then. xD

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC's Retro 8s Live

« Last post by crazybangles on July 09, 2025, 07:28:42 PM »

It was only shown before a few commercial breaks on February 27th. I don't think it has been seen since.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC's Retro 8s Live

« Last post by jrhtwc on July 09, 2025, 07:19:42 PM »

They brought it back!?! Awesome. I always wondered if they would.

I figured they stopped b/c it cost too much & as I've said before, they're low in funds.

It returning for a Wednesdays-Fridays look would be nice. "Wayback Wed., Throwback Th., Flashback Fridays"

Its an iconic TWC look. Thanks to those of you who still update this site every now & then. 

I don't think it Returned........

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC's Retro 8s Live

« Last post by JB711 on July 09, 2025, 06:26:40 PM »

They brought it back!?! Awesome. I always wondered if they would.

I figured they stopped b/c it cost too much & as I've said before, they're low in funds.

It returning for a Wednesdays-Fridays look would be nice. "Wayback Wed., Throwback Th., Flashback Fridays"

Its an iconic TWC look. Thanks to those of you who still update this site every now & then. 

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Contributions / Re: HTML Intellistar 2 Simulator

« Last post by Rubidium on June 20, 2025, 12:04:58 AM »

I love this simulator and how you can set custom backgrounds!

I set it to a picture of a winking Stuffed States USA Virginia GIF.



Wonder if there'll be an option to customize the greeting as well?

Thanks for the awesome product!