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["U. Jason Gloege Jr." <crash AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Wow... that is pretty painful.  When my friend/connection at WRAL told me
they'd farmed out the site and eliminated the internal department, I was
curious as to what would come of the site, and now I know.  Oof.

Jason, WRAL alum

>  Has anyone seen the new WRAL site? What a cludge. What were they
> thinking? There is now so much visual clutter on the screen that it is
> much less useful than it was in the past. Are they trying to copy the
> N&O site? (Actually, the N&O site is better, but still has too much
> clutter.)
>  I assume this is a work in progress since the colors of the site are so
> odd. (Have they a color wheel at WRAL?) The move to this national web
> conglomerate is a mistake. In the long run, they will lose their
> audience.
>  I was able to bookmark the doppler radar and other useful pages on the
> old site, but it seems to give me an error if I directly bookmark
> specific weather pages. Thankfully, WTVD has a doppler page that is
> static so I switched to that one for my link to what is happening on
> "the outside".
>  The only thing that is useful in local TV is the weather radar and
> possibly the forecast. All other things are lead-in's to commerials. If
> I hear one more minute of jovial banter between air-heads on the news
> channel, I am going to gag. Roger (in RTP, a totally open-minded,
> without preconceived ideas and open to all new things, kind of guy who
> needs to take a few deep breaths and have some more coffee...)
> BTW, the Kodak peregrins are back in the nesting box for 2001.
> http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/birdcam2001/index2.shtml
>
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