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5 hours ago, ddaniels20 said:

 

 

My guess is she's Walter's new co-anchor on weekends.

13 hours ago, HulkieD said:

Ratner isn't sounding very good these days either, sadly.  I can't think of anyone who would fit that style... maybe they'll go in a complete other direction and nab Chapin like their northern sister did?

 

Chapin WPVI opens would be something.  (Although it would have been better if it were his more robotic early 90s delivery...)

He's still WTXF's primary voice so I doubt they'd even consider him even if he wasn't. I still think Paul Turner would be a likely choice and a good fit at that. One from left field would be if Howard Parker would consider doing local work again. He does a lot of work for ABC on the entertainment side already. I think his big dark voice would sound great belting out the opens.

5 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

 

Turner's dramatic, exaggerated style of announcing wouldn't be a great fit for PVI, IMO. Ratner would be a much better choice.

Paul and Bill actually were promo voices for WPVI in the late 90s and 2000s before Charlie took over. Paul is also local based here in the suburbs so his voice wouldn't be foreign to the station and its viewers at all.

15 hours ago, HulkieD said:

Is CVD still doing the opens?  They’re easing off on using him it seems.  I wouldn’t be surprised if they just give him only the opens like they were doing with Jeff Kaye towards the end.

Yeah and he's definitely lost his fastball. It's not Jeff Kaye's last opens bad but it ain't too far off. They would best be served finding someone else next time they need opens. (I vote for Paul Turner or Bill Ratner.)

1 hour ago, TVNewsLover said:

Noon today had generic opens with Brian and Sarah anchoring. Jeanette gave the 4pm preview from the newsroom and Alicia did an in-studio story in the 12:30 half hour. The close had Alicia standing by David, and her name was mentioned in the close.

They must be going back to the drawing board to rethink the show formats. Traditionally for them, the noon news was predominately a hard news show and when they expanded it to an hour, they had the lighter stuff towards the back end of the second half hour. When the 4PM launched, it was faster paced with the news and features were dispersed through out. The 5PM has always been longer form hard news. 

With Alicia possibly joining the noon (perhaps only for the 2nd half hour) maybe they want the noon show to become like (or replace) the 4PM and have the 4PM become a harder news show to compete with 10 at 4. As of right now, 10's the only station in that timeslot doing a full hard news hour. 3's doing a complete fluff show (hell they sit on damn couch) and 6 is trying to do both and perhaps they want to get away from that.

12 hours ago, Yankees4life said:

I wished they just used Roundball Rock instead...

Probably a no go now that FOX holds the license for it. Bad move by NBC letting it lapse. 

I do hope that RSNs pick up William Goldstein's NHL theme though if the plan is to fully move away from Peter Calandra's CSN music collection. 

25 minutes ago, TVNewsLover said:

Seems like something’s definitely up. Jeanette Reyes co-anchored at 4pm with Brian, and Sarah filled in for Alicia doing the features. The 4:30pm rejoin mentioned Sharrie in it, but she was not included in the close. But she gave the 5pm preview, and is now anchoring the 5pm with Rick. And Alicia was in studio at 5pm doing a story!!!

Perhaps Rick and Sharrie are the new 5PM paring, with Rick moving to 10PM and Brian to Noon?

1 hour ago, TVNewsLover said:

Brian’s anchoring at noon with Sarah today. I caught the 12:30 opening, and it was a generic opening. I wonder if it was because they have a lot of news to get to today, or if it’s because they’re testing new pairs. 
 

UPDATE: When they close their newscasts, they usually say the names of those that are there as well as those that are off. Mysteriously, Rick’s name was not mentioned at the closing of the noon newscast.

They ran the generic open at the top of the show as well. Perhaps something's up.

Thank god

1 hour ago, Spintech33 said:

 

Yes, that is correct.  NBCSN is doing a good job with these new graphics. 

However, what's very bad is NBC Sports Philadelphia is completely bascura with their ticker.. SMH.

That was covered earlier. The RSNs as a whole abandoned using a ticker. Don't know why but they did. 

1 hour ago, tjt24 said:

The new ticker has shown up during NHL and NASCAR coverage. Its a variation of the new SNF ticker.

Yeah, It's the NBC Sports ticker. They adapt it to focus on whatever sport is being presented live, but then during regular studio shows, it runs through all sports.

2 minutes ago, 24994J said:

NBC Sports Chicago also opened the pregame show with the now-old theme over a view of the arena, leading into the upbeat normal pregame open and theme, then began the game broadcast with the new theme. It was more than a little messy.

NBC Sports Philadelphia did the same but had it all cleaned up by the halftime show. 

1 minute ago, 24994J said:

 

I heard the open of the broadcasts, and it honestly sounds like a 21st century knockoff of 'Roundball Rock.' That doesn't mean I dislike it, but it's definitely got that vibe.

Yeah it def sounds like a hybrid of Roundball Rock and the NBA TNT theme. It's catchy.

The RSNs debuted a new theme for basketball:

And this is why you shouldn't abandon your ticker...

Regionals are now also using the replay wipes the mothership uses:

NBC Sports Bay Area/California getting an almost near clone of NBC Sports Philadelphia's set:

https://www.sportsvideo.org/2019/10/04/nbc-sports-bay-area-nbc-sports-california-set-to-debut-new-studio-at-san-francisco-headquarters/

New animation package for NHL Live and the game broadcast. I hope the inserts are getting replaced for the Winter Classic cause these totally clash.

15 hours ago, JCB4TV said:

NHL begins on Wednesday night, will we new graphics at that time?

Possible. If not then, maybe the Winter Classic.

On 9/23/2019 at 10:08 AM, WCAUTVNBC10 said:

PFT Live on NBCSN is now using the SNF graphics.

And now NBCSN has adopted the new ticker that debuted this year on SNF.

26 minutes ago, Spintech33 said:

PS: What happen to him leaving KYW?...  Did he go there to be an Anchor/Reporter for AM news?

Probably the same reason everyone tends to leave there. No real chance for advancement since they're insistent in using 2 anchor teams to anchor all of the days' newscasts. He was on the bench as far as anchoring went while he was there. They had him subbing on an as needed basis on the afternoon newscasts. I remember him primarily reporting for the noon and afternoon shows. 

2 hours ago, Spintech33 said:

 

Oh, he's a goner... About to be out of a job. Domestic situations are no joke.  Was he at Fox29 before coming down to NBC10?

KYW and WNBC before WCAU.

Also what the hell is he doing living in Chester of all places? I know he's originally from there but still. Not some place I'd wanna live if I had the means to live elsewhere.

PFT Live on NBCSN is now using the SNF graphics.

On 9/18/2019 at 9:40 PM, Bars-n-tone said:

RSNs have dropped the ticker. It's inserted with promo graphics locally a few times a show to satisfy preexisting sponsorship buys. Otherwise, it's toast.

That's weird. I wonder what the reasoning behind that was.

I've noticed for the past couple weeks here in Philly, NBC Sports Philadelphia has been running ticker-free. Occasionally they'll roll out the ticker to plug the particular show's sponsor and the MyTeams app, but other than that, the network's been ticker free. I hope either the NBCSN style ticker or anything more current is coming down the pipe.