Weeters

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.

 

Boy you are very specific, aren't you? What on earth is so special about that specific "video open"?

 

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!

 

Funny...

If you go back through the posts - to many years ago - I told everyone that WABC was going to build a street-level studio where The Disney Store once was. Everyone doubted me... and where are they now?

Ya know, things change - ideas float around..

Just saying.

 

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.

 

just watched the ending to the 10pm news and they closed with a wide shot from a studio cam mounted on the ceiling. I might be stretching it but is it possible this camera is in place for a time lapse video of a new set installation?

 

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.

 

The new graphic can also be seen on this video from 7online: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=9267919

 

 

No new graphics during the 2:59 teaser for First @ 4:00... So likely not today. Maybe next Monday.

 

Hey "nynewsguy" - what happened to the new look this weekend?

 

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.

 

Judging from this image, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151586622197875&set=a.10151586620852875.1073741827.254253402874&type=1&theater, 7E is dismantled, to any who was wondering.

 

However, the other day, the box graphics shown between 3C and newsroom said something quite different.

Screen Shot 2013-06-06 at 5.18.35 PM.png

I thought the "control room" was studio 7K or is that newsroom still considered 7E?

 

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.

Can someone PLEASE explain to me why the lighting in their studio is so bad? The "interview" area doesn't even look like it has lights its so dark.. The green screen isnt to great either..The desk isn't as bad but still pretty dark.. Its really annoying.. The only place with 1/2 way decent lighting is the newsroom area. As silly as it may sound I now watch FOX 5 at 5 and 6 now.. I've been watching Greg and Rosanna for a few years now and even tho their set is the oldest in the city I think it is the nicest.

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.

February sweeps news here in Milwaukee. The usual top two were WISN and WTMJ, with WISN coming out on top this time. In a surprising development that seems to show HD does make a difference to viewers, WDJT beat out WITI for third place for the first time ever. The numbers were:

 

WISN- 8.4

WTMJ- 8.0

WDJT- 6.7

WITI- 5.9

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.

This coming monday (Feb.20th) PIX will have a live studio audience for their morning news show.. Im dying to see how this is gonna work..

 

http://www.mediabist...ing-news_b39536

22 people are gonna be there.. I didn't even think that many people even watched that show lol

Hahahahaha

what

 

I'm not sure they were. I do remember the shortened version of the

they had, but it was still an actual open. And they did occasionally have a "cold open" with no music, but it was just occasionally. Now, the weekday 11pm show (the only show that even occasionally does ratings that aren't horrible) always runs that rather bad cold open.

 

Thinking about it, was there even any reason for Gannett to drop the Giant Octopus graphics with their own standardized ones? The GO graphics were a standardization. They could have still outsourced everything to Denver, and just have them use the GO metrics. Was Gannett too cheap to even try to customize their graphics producing machine to work with GO graphics? (Never mind Denver's KUSA still has many customizations in its presentation.) I guess they save money by forcing all their stations (except KARE) to use the same theme music from Rampage...

 

Anyway, I find it interesting that WUSA uses the no-open on its highest profile newscast, and that also they have not used the latest updates to the Gannett open and graphics for its other shows.

AXIS can easily be set up to let individual stations have individual graphics packages. I believe I heard many of the FOX O&O's have custom templates on it (though they did come from the hub).

This cold open is an obvious attempt at "being hip". It looks like it was produced by one of the internet newscasts.

WITI (Milwaukee) current open

I still refuse to believe this is real. It's some prank being played on them by some upset Steelers fan that works there.

Right? Right?!

:puke:

Was looking for a graphic and found this almost moving farewell to the former RTL set:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwAt2EbDk0c

EDIT: No longer available. RTL Group has gone anal on copyright.

CFCF Montreal 2010 6pm Open/Recap/Long Credit Close:

[/quote

 

As an aside, who composed the news music for the CTV local stations?

 

I believe it's by Bungalow 7, which does most of the music for CTV.

I did a search in this thread and was surprised that nobody had really mentioned the Gannett opens yet. God, are these awful.

 

[yt]NJDf6qHY88I[/yt]

These are fantastic compared to the other shit in this thread.

Woooooow... LiveType? Really? That's cheesy in high school productions, much less in something people actually watch (or are expected to watch)

A few stations around here have used it. WITI mostly, and WTMJ did last week. It looks terrible.

the "at 5:00" font looks like they just added it thru Final Cut Pro. smh

The "at 5:00" and "Coming Up" graphics are default FCP templates.

Do they also only have one cut of music?

Looks like WSVI has got a new look.

I'm about ready to give them some graphics.

KARK-TV open 2009 (Little Rock, AK)

I think it'd make a great morning show open...

evening news, not so much.

WITI 1982 News Promo. You've got to see this one! One of the VERY best ever:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9qo0tnh3c

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.

It's pretty sad when internet newscasts have better opens than a licensed TV station.

WITI newscast clip from pre-1994.

WITI Earl Gillespie promo (Old).

WTMJ promo from 1986.