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New station with the WMC pack. KFYR. The station also switched their music to 615's High Velocity V.3.

WAFF

Retransmission disputes with Dish are not short.

That looks alright. Probably the most “modern” CBS News has looked in a very, very long time.

CBS Weekend News debuted its brand-new open yesterday. This should be a harbinger for what's to come with the rest of their news product and branding. New CBS Weekend News Open_Adriana.mp4 Also, they've integrated the new 'CBS' font into the chyron for "CBS Weekend News", replacing the old 'CBS'. However, they've only changed the "Weekend News" font to the new one in the open and not the chyron, so I don't think this integrates well.

KLAS 80s Newscast WABC Eyewitness Extra 4:30 1983 https://youtu.be/HB4GqrwPy1k Cablevision News 12 newscast 1983 KIMA 1991 Newscast https://youtu.be/gEg5-ES-ghA KDKA Eyewitness News 1987 WCAX 1993 Newscast WDIV 1983 News promos and news snippets.

I'm just glad they haven't begun to stack scoreboards in the vertical video space to solely appeal to social media users.

If that's the case, it's time to figure out how to differentiate graphics feeds for mobile app streaming vs. TV. This sucks.

I never like large graphics that hug the bottom of the screen with no gap. It feels so claustrophobic. Don't they basically modify the NBA score graphic almost every season now? It seems absurd.

American sports graphics continue to get bigger and bigger...

Major waste of space. If they just laid it out like the CBB one this actually wouldn't be too bad.

NewsCentral was before its time. Technology has changed so much that it's impossible to compare with what we can do today. We have meteorologists working from home covering severe weather. What's the difference if they're 30 miles from the station or 3000?

I'll summarize my thoughts from the Discord: I don't think this is an attempt at a new OTA weather channel or anything close to WeatherPlus. I think this is a vehicle to enable the hubbing of weather. The press release says "Fox Weather will feature local, regional and national updates... [Drawing] on more than 75 meteorologists across 17 stations and Fox News Channel’s news gathering teams." and makes no mention of affiliate stations. This is a project that involves only the O&O group. Rebrand all the local weather departments under the "Fox Weather" banner (Which would be similar to WeatherPlus) and now you have a unified brand that anyone can appear in front of. Do you really need weekend meteorologists at both WITI and WFLD? Or can you just "regionalize" these markets and do both out of one station from time to time? Oh no! A Tornado warning has been issued on a Sunday morning, and nobody's at the station! Not to worry, the Mothership in NYC has somebody on duty, and they were going to cover the Tornado warning anyways, so they might as well just simulcast Fox Weather on the local FOX O&O. I would not be the least bit surprised if midway through next year, they announce they're "streamlining" the O&O's and are taking advantage of "operational efficiencies" presented with a network of meteorologists and suddenly some stations lose their weekend/fill in mets. I've said for some time now that Weather and Sports were ripe for hubbing, and I think this might be the start of that.

So they also got a new set. I noticed they changed their website to the gfx pkg that they are currently using.

I noticed that KXII finally updated the weather graphics to Gray's new style to match the newscasts graphics after using the previous graphics since 2015.

It is. Can confirm WAVE has ditched their custom look of a year after the upgrade. Apparently there's still some customization with it (mainly weather it looks like), otherwise it's the standard Gray look. Don't think they're too happy about it.

Possibly the oldest footage of an Ed Hopkins-voiced FULL open on a station (the January one got cut off): (Go to 1:00:19) By this point WNGE had phased out the GE ID in prep for their call letter and ownership change a month later.

From the 518, news coverage of “Hurricane Bonnie,” featuring Neal Estano just before he ended his second tenure at WRGB, and WTEN before the beginning of their decade long run using the WJBK graphics:

Dan Rather leads CBS News' coverage of the start of the second Iraq War on March 19th, 2003 (courtesy btm0815ma): ABC News Nightline coverage from the same evening:

Some WRGB from after 9/11.

Still more from btm0815ma, including some 1981 newscasts that introduced a few variations of intros from the early Dan Rather era and the entire 1988 CBS Evening News that included the Dan Rather vs. George H W Bush showdown

Here ya go: a demo reel of 90s TVBD featuring some WAGT, WNWO and even some of their work at WBAL:

BTM0815MA has been on a tear when it comes to rare news uploads. This leads me to most of a **RARE** WITN newscast from December 31st, 1980. And if you are a Weather Channel viewer, you may recognize this former OCM (on-camera meteorologist).

Don't talk shit about Counterpoint.

It's to make it easier for people watching on mobile devices to be able to read the graphics better. Smaller screens need bigger graphics.