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I'm with Eat on this one. Companies have gotten away with some fines for much, much worse than "lying to the FCC." PG&E has blown up neighborhoods and burned down cities in California (killing people in the process) because of their negligence, and all they've gotten are some (big) fines and had to go through bankruptcy. Sinclair is going to get their knuckles slapped with a ruler, have to pay some fines, and maybe say "we're deeply sorry." This isn't going to be some Enron-level scandal.

That wouldn't be fair to KGUN. The Journal package turns ten years old in a few weeks... I know they haven't had it that long, but still. It needs to go.

Yes. Literally any of those are an improvement from United. Any of them. Even Sinclair.

United is actually getting out of everything. It sold its last newspaper (The Kenosha News) a few weeks ago. They've slowly been selling off their other newspaper properties over the past few years. What a terrible position they were in. Small town newspapers and TV stations with pretty much no digital properties and lackluster digital for the stuff they did own.

There were rumors of a few years ago of a chopper share between WTMJ and WISN that would have gotten them both (and possibly WITI and WDJT if they wanted to buy in) a HD chopper... Hopefully that avenue is explored again.

Probably not even going to bother going up against the Super Bowl.

KMAX/Good Day Sacramento anchor Marianne McClary has announced her retirement, and the announcement video features some old KCPQ, KTNV, and KPWB/KMAX clips. Most interesting to me is the revelation that KTNV used the angled bars graphics package that WTMJ used in the late 80's and early 90's.

I think the industry's collective obsession with having some sort of interchangeable branding on the screen at all times (Scripps, Hearst, CBS, etc.) means these 16:9/4:3 hybrid packages will stick around for the time being. There's no real reason to make the text go all the way to the edge of the screen, and moving it into the old 4:3 area opens up space to jam some branding graphic next to it.

That corner of the newsroom has been an open "studio" since the building was built. The current set just enclosed the space and forced the newsroom employees to look at the back of a set all day. It's extremely tiny and oddly shaped, and if I recall correctly some of the weird curved plasterwork from the original newsroom design still exists above it. They've been pretty hard set on keeping the two actual studios free for outside production. If they DID build a new set, they'd probably have to build a temp set in one of them while the newsroom "studio" was replaced. Also, you can totally rent monitors like the ones behind the desk, so those replacements from last year could totally be getting replaced by a LED wall.

Renderon has a history of reusing previous packages. The old Journal package was recycled from an older WDIV package. It was just kind of simplified so Journal could rebuild it for VizRT.

In this case, I was told they made up an internal document outlining the kind of stuff they were looking for, with a couple of examples (surprise, it was all the flat, Tegna-style graphics packages in the industry right now.) That goes out to companies that respond with some proposals. They then pick whatever proposal works best. That's how we end up with all those set design proposals people like to come on here with and post about, saying how they found what's totally going to be WXXX's next set, posted three years ago on some random guy's website.

We're barely a week into the year. If there will be new graphics this year, they've got plenty of time. Rumor is they didn't even start the preliminary process of getting new graphics until late fall. So it probably wouldn't happen until summer or fall 2019 at the earliest.

You should just be able to link them. I linked mine and didn’t have to leave the Discord. Could you show me a screenshot of what’s going on?

DSLRs really cannot be used in live production. Due to tax regulations they actually cannot run for more than 30 minutes continuously. Video cameras and still photo cameras have different regulations on them that kick in when they can record more than 30 minutes continuously. That kind of robot is more often found in film than in television, though I know these are more common in TV overseas. Scripps is probably looking into them because they're really good with virtual sets.

If affiliates wanted to program an extra hour in the morning that badly, the 4th hour of Today wouldn't exist or it would be optional. I'm not sure why people on here think the affiliates want an extra hour of time to fill in the mornings. They don't. That hour has always belonged to the network. Before the 4th hour of Today, it was the Soap Opera "Passions". Believe me, the network wouldn't have decided on this without input from the Affiliates. Input that went "No, please fill that for us, we don't want to fill it ourselves."

Probably because the target audience doesn't watch traditional TV.

They've had it for weather graphics for a long time (At least May 2017!). It happened during the rollout of WSI weather graphics systems to the Journal stations. KGUN got theirs after the merger, and WSI apparently decided to give them the Scripps package instead of the Journal package, and nobody bothered to get that fixed.

On mobile, the "Unread Content" link is in the hamburger menu (the three horizontal lines) under "activity". Meant to remove those and completely forgot. They have been removed!

The PM issue should be fixed!

The Discord server link is here. I'll see what's going on with the PM thing.

It's been a rough road getting here, but we're excited to reveal the new site. Let's get to it! Outside of visual changes, there aren't a whole lot of functional changes. Notable changes include: Mobile support is improved, especially when composing a message. Emoticons are OUT and the full suite of emojis are IN. BBCode has been removed completely in favor of a more robust WYSIWYG editor. The logo has been refreshed. Coming soon: We will be restoring the ability to register and sign in with popular web services like Google, Twitter, and Facebook. And there is much more to come in the days and weeks ahead! Stay tuned for more updates. Regrettably, the old Shoutbox was not able to be carried over to the new site. We are looking into our options when it comes to real-time discussion, including integration with services like Discord, which many of you already use. This will also be addressed within the coming days. Please reach out if you encounter any issues, either by PM or by emailing [email protected].

Why? To unnecessarily scare viewers? To throw more fuel on the "Fake News" fire? WEWS did the right thing by waiting to see how the story played out. The other stations that didn't bother to wait and went wall-to-wall for a hoax are one reason people are turning away from TV news.

Ignite was the automation system they were using and has nothing to do with Xpression. I believe they're standardizing the group onto Xpression for graphics and OverDrive for automation (so yes, there will probably be subtle changes at the other O&Os too.) I couldn't say what the draw is for ABC to get Xpression, but I can say I often hear that users of Xpression elsewhere like it. As I understand it, they actually switched over a month ago, when that new backdrop debut...

WABC recently switched their CG playout over to Ross Xpression (They actually transitioned to a brand new control room as I understand it) I believe other O&O's are going to make the transition to Xpression as well. Yes, the graphics have to be rebuilt in it.

That's not really how that works. First off, NXT is not the brand, it's a graphic that's a stylized shortening of the word "next". Second, whatever trademark WWE has for "NXT" would be limited to wrestling. In fact, since I found it, the registrations WWE has for "NXT" are essentially limited to merchandise related to the league and wrestling broadcasts on TV and online. A quick search of the US Trademark database lists 200+ trademarks using "NXT" (including at least six that are exclusively the letters "NXT") as trademarks for things like Artificial turf Sports drinks enhanced with minerals; Sports drinks, namely, performance drinks; Sports drinks, namely, recovery drinks Retail store services featuring manufactured homes management of multi-tenant living facilities Vacuum cleaners and vacuum cleaner parts Semiconductor lithographic machines, namely, lithographic machines used to manufacture semiconductors, and structural parts therefor Water treatment equipment, namely, water filtration units. Electric battery fast chargers TL;DR There's nothing stopping them from using a graphic that says "NXT" in promos.