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Yeah, they don't use anything like what WBAL has. WISN has had the same general design for their severe weather ticker since 2011, except sometime between then and now they decided to scale down the program video and add "WEATHERWATCH 12" sidebars to it, for a grand total of four '12' logos on the ticker graphic alone. I thought I had a screenshot, but you'll just have to take my word for it. This market is terrible when it comes to weather tickers.

"I told my daughter I didn't want her going out with that loser Bob from down the street, and she did anyways! I bet if we tell them not to watch, they'll watch!! That's how the kids work, you know!!"

I've heard that Ruth Dial, formerly of GO, worked on the package. I've also heard that Rey Rodriguez worked on these at WLS' request, and that WLS originally wanted to go with GO, but he had left (obviously this was all going on in late 2012). Whether or not these people are operating as "Blue Helio" is up for debate.

That's the kind of stuff they'd slip into it just to pretend like it is live, even though no one at home would notice (or care) otherwise. That could have been done live to tape and left in because it really didn't affect timing. If the tape didn't air at all, they would have re-done it, but if it worked and the segment hit it's timing, why fix what ain't broken?

It's sponsored, by Radio Shack no less, so if Radio Shack didn't give them the tablets outright, they were probably discounted or offset by RadioShack's sponsorship contract. 30 low end Galaxy Tab 4's would only run you $6k retail, so...

Running a separate "show" after an abbreviated newscast is a little trick used to make the usually poorly rated Friday night news not count in ratings.

Let's face it. A lot of news music is getting severely dated. Synths were all fine and dandy in the 90's, but put pretty much any package that wasn't made recently next to, I don't know, Strive, and listen to the difference. I know which one I'd put on a station I was in charge of. Outside of this board, literally nobody cares what music is being used and you'd be hard pressed to find many people at a television station that even knows what their music package is called, let alone who composed it. There might be a nutty CSD or GM somewhere that insists on keeping those cuts of MCTYW alive out of tradition, but there will come a time when even those are retired (probably after said people do the same). The old version of the music was getting dated. It was worn out. It didn't match the fresh new look of the new graphics. This version of Stimulus is very likely middle ground between someone at the station who wanted something exciting and new and someone who was insisting the old theme stay around because of some buzzwords like Brand Association or something equally as absurd. It could have gone away entirely. You could be watching ABC7 Eyewitness News with Indie Band News playing over the open. Everyone could still be using Teletype sounds as the bed to their news open, but they don't because better things came along.

I don't remember if the picture of the original configuration of the WNBC 3C set ever got out, but in case it didn't, I found this photo of shortly after it was dismantled. The original configuration had 24 46" thin-bezel monitors making up a massive monitor wall where the vertical plasmas are now. The set was finished, lit, and cameras were starting to be moved in when the decision to redo it came down. The monitors put into crates and wheeled away. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/9924444486/

By the way, the new talent ID's were done by Renderon.

That's his thing, he asks for extremely specific opens and then wants them to be uploaded to TVArk. The dates never seem to have any historical significancy so I think they're just random. I guess he doesn't realize that TVArk doesn't accept digital files and instead wants the tape source. Or that we don't run TVArk. No idea!

Well, either there's a morning show producer who is somehow way out of the loop or the entire package was canceled and the Men in Black zapped everyone's mind.

Generally speaking, the cameras stations use for timelapse set install videos are cheap webcams. Not all the time, but I wouldn't think that a new camera angle is a sign of a new set. In fact, I'd say the opposite, because why bother to hang a camera if a few weeks down the road you won't be able to use it for a month while a new set goes in.

That's not a very well done graphic. The animation is basic and not smooth at all. I'm thinking it was done in-house. Would be extremely shocked if that was done by a graphics house.

Just a reminder that nynewsguy has a bit of a history of talking about things that didn't happen/never existed. He perpetuated the rumors of the "Superset" in posts now deleted (but referenced by others) and then later claimed the WABC flashcam RP backdrop was chroma-key which he insisted before being proven wrong. When reading his posts, be sure to take them with a rather large grain of salt.

It looks like they also ripped out the "star wars" vertical line panels too. Good riddance to those! It's likely the entire newsroom is designated "7E", and I think that standup location is just behind the assignment desk in front of the windows looking in on the control room. Some nice pictures of the old setup can be found here, just click Work then NBCUniversal - Broadcast (the cameraman silhouette) under 2007.

WDJT's morning anchor Jennifer Tomazic is on her way to Pittsburgh. Her last day is today. Not sure what she'll be doing in Pittsburgh, though.

I think it's mostly their insistence on using LED lights. They simply don't give off enough light compared to your "classic" lighting instrument. The color of LED lights also just blends in with the colors of the set (cold blues) compared to the yellows and reds that a traditional instrument will throw off. LED lights also lack reflectors, so the light is unfocused and drops off faster. The FOX O&O set are big on not using LED or lots of Fluorescent lights. The colors the "traditional" lights give off are what helps bring out the colors the FOX O&O sets use and what makes them look good on TV.

Welp. Can't say I'm really surprised. WDJT's new set and HD news have completely overhauled their appearance and they no longer look like a college newscast with slightly more money. Meanwhile, WITI continues to decline with increasingly half-assed promos and graphics (They recently debut a new live truck wrap that can only be described as "retro" and looks like a small town truck wrap from the early 80's. This is featured in a long promo that's extremely boring...), undertrained or poorly trained Viz artists, a revolving door of reporters, technical errors that plague every newscast, and an overall decrease in the quality of content. The morning newscast is a mess, Shaun Patrick is one of the worst readers in the market and frequently employs the use of "boring monotone" to deliver the news. Things are going to need to change there or they are going to become the next WDJT.

Hahahahaha what

That account has a TON of WITI promos! Including the "The Winners" campaign which apparently was a Frank Gari piece! And this one about some "Satellite" doodad... They're not going to catch on. And this retrospective package from when they moved to their present building.

WITI newscast clip from pre-1994. WITI Earl Gillespie promo (Old). WTMJ promo from 1986.

WMAQ's last newscast from Merchandise Mart and first newscast from NBC Tower. (1989) http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/first_tower_news/index.html

WITI-TV Image Campaign Promo (Late 1970's-early 80's): [yt]am85ui827s0[/yt] WTMJ-TV 10PM clean open (1992): [yt]YE43X0GgI_U[/yt]

Tom Skilling Weather Promo (WITI)