July 2002

Domestic 1.68 Release Notes

Weather Star XL

Release Overview

The Weather Channel Domestic 1.68 re- are missed lease contains enhancements to the • Screen flashes to pink/black, etc. Weather Star XL units that are identified in • Audio briefly not operational these release notes. Each of these issues will rectify itself after a Items Included: Release Deployment very short time. This release will be deployed by satellite Document Purpose transmission to each Domestic Weather New Metro Map Product 2 This document describes the enhancements Star XL in the field. No assistance from the contained in the Domestic 1.68 release. cable headend engineer is required. Each item in the release is described in During installation, viewers may temporar- terms of what the home viewer would see ily experience one or more of the following on a television screen. anomalies: Scope • Screen briefly locks and jitters The information in this document applies to • Ad tags display and end late Domestic Weather Star XL units only. Cor- • Local Ad Crawl freezes during Local rections to any other unit types are not ad- Forecasts dressed in this document. • Local Forecasts start and end late or

Test Environment Description

The Domestic 1.68 release was tested in Video Cipher Quality Assurance Wegener VideoCipherII Plus (model 2900) Lab and verified to be working after apply- Solution Center ing the 1.68 release. The QA lab is config- ured as follows: Video Distribution Amplifier (800) 554-7354 [email protected] Lenco PFM-300 (with PVA-350 cards) Satellite Receivers The Weather Channel

Standard Agile Omni Professional Solution Center is staffed 7x24, 365 days a year to Channel 13 Commercial Insertion Equipment respond to any situation. Frequency 6500—Medium We welcome any ques- Drake Earth Station Receiver (ESR 1255) Channelmatic, Inc. Spotmatic Jr. tions, suggestions, or com- Channel 13 Channelmatic, Inc. Moneymaker ments on our products, Frequency 3.960 services, and support. Items Included in the Domestic 1.68 Release

New Metro Map Product

What You Saw Before . . . What You See Now . . .

During the standard segment at 58 In some areas, the Regional Forecast Map has been minutes past the hour, virtually all areas of the country replaced with a forecast that features a more detailed, received a Regional Forecast Map, labeled as the fore- zoomed-in view of a metropolitan area. A list of areas cast for today or tomorrow. This product included the that will receive these “Metro Maps” at this time is in- weather and high temperature forecasts for a rectan- cluded at the end of this document. The Metro Maps gular area roughly a few hundred miles across from product includes the weather and the high or low tem- west to east. perature forecast for a metropolitan area. These maps will display in all of the standard Local on the 8s seg- ments.

In the rest of the country, the existing Regional Fore- cast Maps will still display at 58 minutes past the hour. Regional Forecast Maps will also now display in all other standard Local on the 8s segments as well.

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New Metro Map Product

The new Metro Map product will be available on Star XL units in the following metropolitan areas . . .

• , GA • Baltimore, MD

• Boston, MA • Charlotte, NC

• Chicago, IL • , OH

• -Fort Worth, TX • Denver, CO

• Detroit, MI • Hartford, CT

• Houston, TX • Indianapolis, IN

• , CA • Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL

• Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN • New York, NY

• Norfolk, VA • Orlando, FL

• , PA • Phoenix, AZ

• , PA • Portland, OR

• Raleigh-Durham, NC • Sacramento-Stockton, CA

• San Diego, CA • San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA

• Seattle, WA • St. Louis, MO

• Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL • Washington, DC

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