For Sale: TWC

[Justin E. Reed]

I just wanna know where their HD format is? I've seen little symbols on certain shows, but come on, your an empire! They should have everything HD, hell HD mics for goodness sakes, to where you can hear them breathing too hard, sheesh. They are supposed to go HD this year, in selected markets, come on, some areas still have the OLD local on the 8's crap, that ain't right!

 

[Forrest lambert]

does anyone know when TWC is going off the air?

 

[Stephen Levine]

TWC should have had their own team of skilled chasers and their own tornado intercept vehicles. Live broadcasts from supercells and hurricanes would have been a huge draw of viewers. They could have even had a red team and a blue team competeing against each other. ....viewers could vote chasers off the show...Ok I went overboard.

Actually I don't think you went overboard at all. This to me is creative thinking and exactly that type of thing that would have brought weather to the status of high sports yet mixed with science.
Imagine as I had suggesed last week, if they actually had flown reporters to MO last night for live coverage...

 

[Terry Tyler]

Imagine as I had suggesed last week, if they actually had flown reporters to MO last night for live coverage...

thats what they need to do!

like when they go out to do live feeds on hurricanes, they should have their crews go out into a severe weather threat area and do live feeds when a storm shows up...

i know i was watching one time when they had a guy out there waiting for a squall line to come in...i thought that was pretty cool...like, if he described what he was looking at, and they had the radar up and all that and people discussing the situation at the weather desk...

man, if the weather channel did that...i might not even need to chase

 

[Ben Faber]

Very interesting read and agree with the many comments about how TWC isn't anywhere near what it used to be, but also understand how they are trying to cater to the masses with the non-weather fluff. TV and the media is way different today than it was 20+ years ago.

That said, I think something like TWC as it was in it's "heyday", could survive in a niche market if done correctly. Don't know if anyone here has watched RFD-TV (on DISH and DTV), it's basically public television aimed at the rural/farm lifestyle. They've done an excellent job with the programming which is very much a throwback to old TV and a nice break from the in-your-face TV of today. I believe they are a non-profit organization so advertising is at a bare minimum.

Anyway, I too long for the TWC as it once was. Could it or something like it make a comeback? I'd like to think so, but don't see it happening.

 

[Terry Tyler]

Don't know if anyone here has watched RFD-TV (on DISH and DTV), it's basically public television aimed at the rural/farm lifestyle. They've done an excellent job with the programming which is very much a throwback to old TV and a nice break from the in-your-face TV of today. I believe they are a non-profit organization so advertising is at a bare minimum.

i saw it on there, but ive never seen it...ill have to take a look at it sometime...

another good non-profit television network you might want to take a look at is linkTV...they show the stuff on there that other news agencies arent hard enough to show...or just dont care...

that kind of thought provoking television is a welcome break from the regular stuff on there...

for those of you who own comcast...they have a channel called "radar-vision" and it runs the NOAA weather radio and radar all day every day...

i still firmly believe that they need to have a way to dial into radars from directv...if you can do that stupid ass "game lounge" or tune into all that music, they might could put up a map of all the radar sites in the US and let you choose which one you want to look at with the flick of your wrist...

 

[Dan Nichols]

I'll throw in $10 if they brought back Lisa Mozer...... Another $20 if they show the local radar every 5 minutes, instead of "The 8's".......

All kidding aside: despite the "fluff", Realize, TWC's radar has improved tremendously in the past few years. Now you've got motion, close-up, and overall better accuracy. Remember when the red warning sign hogged the entire screen, just when the local radar became most crucial? Now they can do the same with a "crawler" on the bottom of the picture. However, I think TWC would indeed benefit by having more local radar, especially an ongoing image during all their "fluff" progs where now, one often waits 30 minutes for a radar.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Resurrecting an old thread - looks like a closing is in the works with NBC Universal as the buyer and an approximate $3.5 bil payment. What the future holds is anybody's guess. NBC also runs local cable channels for weather in metropolitan areas.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Well ... the deal was apparently really close. As of 5:00 pm eastern, the announcement was made that the combination company "NBC/Universal" has gone through with the purchase of TWC. Will be interesting to see where this ultimately leads -

 

[Jason Foster]

I'd hate to be a met. on MSNBC....as I suspect they'll use the common source of TWC rather than their own. Guess the deal also means they'll switch to NBC affiliates for their stringer shots.

 

[Maggie Kahman]

...If you're in rural Nebraska under a tornado warning but it's sprinkling in Atlanta you're screwed". That one is pretty accurate.

hehe Shane, thats funny. I lol'ed at that one. But it IS rather true.

 

[Greg Blumberg]

I'd hate to be a met. on MSNBC....as I suspect they'll use the common source of TWC rather than their own. Guess the deal also means they'll switch to NBC affiliates for their stringer shots.

Anyone got any other ideas of some of the likely consequences from this purchase?