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Massive downgrade

Might be a good idea to retitle this thread “CoxPollo New Graphics”, since this is certainly appearing to be a group-wide rollout. I just thought of something: This new package will fit WFXT like a glove.

Reminds me a lot of FOX -- almost to the point where it wouldn't surprise me if one of the FOX O&O hub folks got poached to produce this.

Given how quickly this rollout is going (4 news departments in a 16 hour period), it wouldn’t surprise me if some of the others get the new graphics over the rest of the week.

The font and look reads to me like a copy of the Fox O&O graphics; if you took away all branding and asked me to compare WSB to WAGA, I would be hard-pressed to tell the difference outside the "5", which has a signature look with Fox's Neue Plck font which isn't in the Coxpollo package.

For a company that throws (or used to throw?) away a lot of money at consultants to tell them what to think and do, this looks pretty underwhelming for a group-wide graphics package.

It definitely has the FOX O&O vibe, at least with the font. Once this package gets to the other markets (especially Pittsburgh and Charlotte) it will be a major improvement. Both of those packages probably go all the way back to their launch in HD, which seems like an eternity.

Hallelujah! Thought this day would never come! WSB debuted new graphics at noon, ok well maybe not entirely new graphics, more like an update on their last package, which was an update from another package...... Regardless the main thing is things look a little different on air, this new update is very flat, no gradients actually, honestly so far, color me disappointed. Below are some screenshots of how it looks on air so far. Unsure what the new intro looks like, if there is a new one at all, we shall see at 4pm!

I think it looks great too!

I can only speak for Atlanta, but WAGA, a FOX O&O has been in second place in the ratings and has long been on WSB's tail for first. This might be a possibility for the similarities. Same thing to a lesser extent with Gray owned WANF/WPCH (similarities to GrayONE) although to a lesser extent.

Like this OTS for serve weather!

WSOC just debuted the graphics at Noon. Finally phasing out that butchered package from like 2011 or 2012 I think?

I guess it could be, but this studio looks to have a higher quality of finishes and more tech than WNBC’s, if you look at pictures of 3B this one seems to be bigger too. I guess we’ll have to wait and see who’s it is!

The Oklahoma City Thunder and Griffin Media have announced a deal to televise a package of eight Friday night games over-the-air on KSBI in Oklahoma City and KOTV-DT3 (which otherwise runs KOTV news simulcasts and rebroadcasts) in Tulsa through the end of the 2023–24 regular season, starting with a January 26 away game against the New Orleans Pelicans. The games will also air regionally on Gray's KSCW (CW)/Wichita and KSWO-DT3 (MeTV)/Lawton–Wichita Falls and Morgan Murphy's KOAM-KFJX/Joplin (the linked story doesn't specify which station will air the games in that market, whether only on CW affiliate KFJX-DT2 or alternating between both stations' CBS, Fox and CW feeds). The team's main broadcaster, Bally Sports Oklahoma, will carry the Thunder's other remaining regionally exclusive game broadcasts during the remainder of the season.

Yeah, this is pretty terrible. What were they thinking?!

In the city, no. In some of the northern suburbs, sure.

Especially since the Baltimore stations thoroughly cover this part of Maryland in the local news… Whatever happened to “significantly viewed” status?

More screenshots of the package:

Yeah, with WPXI's current package (in use since 2015) being an evolution of the package from 2007.

I just went to the Action News Jax website to watch the livestream, and yes indeed, they have the new graphics. The font looks like it is Calibre, which Portugal's public broadcaster RTP uses in the logos of its channels.

Also depends on how the channels are sold to advertisers. If it's purely "added value" on a primary investment....

I'm not loving the font, but in general, I'm like THANK GOODNESS!

With CMG starting up a graphics hub in Atlanta last year, I guess this is the new group look? Otherwise it doesn’t make a ton of sense to launch something new at WSB if a group look is coming?

Looks like WSB and/or Coxpollo hired the same company that did the ABC O&O package and WINK's new graphics. The similarities are all there.

Good Day Atlanta is 75 hours long so she could definately fit in there.

Speaking of CNN, anyone surprised no one in ATL has tried, at this time, to get Robbin Meade?

Feels more like an election year cash grab.

Here is the set to 20/20.