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"NewsNation: Where One Of These Retreads Will Get Us Eyeballs, Right?"

Did they forget to load TT Norms in? That looks horrible. 

I think these look pretty good, actually. I like the different colors highlighting certain stories, a nice addition if you're just glancing at the screen and decide you want to focus more on a campaign or money story.

39 minutes ago, T.L. Hughes said:

Aside, how does that work? It makes sense for its newscasts, other local shows (L.A. Unscripted, Off the Clock, California Cooking with Jessica Holmes, Frank Buckley Interviews and Inside California Politics) and Clippers games, but the bulk of KTLA's local programming airs between 4:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. weekdays. The rest of the station's schedule (outside the weeknight 10:00 and 11:00 p.m., weekend morning and evening newscasts, Sports Final and a few of the above-mentioned non-news local shows) consists of CW shows, syndicated and paid programming, and I doubt those shows are given audio simulcasts on the iHeart feed.

 

Radio simulcasts of local TV newscasts have been a thing for about 35 years or so, but usually have been limited to evening broadcasts—usually during drive time—on a news/talk or music station. (There were also a few cases like the arrangement that KPRC had with KLAT radio in the early 1990s, where a Spanish-language station ran a translated simulcast of the English broadcast.)

My guess is, since it's labeled as KTLA 5 News on iHeart, it's just an audio simulcast of this, which is mainly newscasts and news replays :https://ktla.com/on-air/live-streaming/

23 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

So you're just taking the spin at face value. Remind me to never put you in an investigative role.

What part of "offer no specifics" makes you think I'm buying the spin at face value? I was just sharing what came up in a Google search. Personally, I doubt NN is turning a "good" profit.

As for your other statement, I doubt you'll ever be in any position to make decisions on staffing anywhere.

1 hour ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

Where do you see that NewsNation is turning a good profit?

Nexstar execs claim it's profitable, but offer no specifics. I don't see anything in their last quarterly report.

From last year:

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Nexstar executives have said that NewsNation is already profitable (in addition to carriage fees, the company sells ad packages alongside its local TV stations and The CW, which it acquired last year).

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/newsnation-expands-new-york-chris-cuomo-elizabeth-vargas-1235401963/

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Between the lines: Despite the ratings battle, the network has been profitable since it launched in 2020, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios. NewsNation is currently hiring for well over 100 positions nationwide. Some of the money it was using to pay to distribute the entertainment content that's now being replaced by news will go toward expanding NewsNation's coastal expansion.

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/18/newsnation-multimillion-expansion-dc-nyc

1 minute ago, cxd7346 said:

The reason I went with this cut is it was the cut we used in the 00s for First Alert weather. It has an urgency that I like. I tried other cuts from the updates when putting this together and preferred the cut from Disk 3.

Cool!

1 hour ago, cxd7346 said:

What’s clunky about it? 

I don't think the sting and the graphic line up well. Something with a little more urgency/tempo would work better (IMO), especially coming out of the open which has a little more energy to the music.

I’m surprised at how well Hello News works with a modern graphics package. It’s a little clunky with the First Alert Weather sting, but the open fit well. 

12 hours ago, HSV cheesehead said:

They clearly did not know how to correctly execute the new ticker, they need to change the font color, or at least a translucent background, like all the others have done.

That was fixed quickly during the broadcast, with the translucent background added.

EDIT 1/16/24: WAFB has moved to GrayONE as of Noon on 1/16/24.

Put WAFB/Baton Rouge on the clock for GreyONE - this new logo just popped up on their website:

Previous logo, in place for decades with the CBS eye logo added along the way:

The alternate graphics in question are just a reskin of an already existing pre-GreyOne template, so maybe there's a technical issue unique to those stations (i.e., incompatible equipment with GreyOne) and this is a band-aid until Grey decides to pony up the cash to fix it.

35 minutes ago, TheOneManHerd said:

Any idea why Gray is removing the NBC branding from all of their affiliates?

CNBC logo has been Tinkered, bringing along a refresh to the graphics as well.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/cnbc-ticker-overhaul-screen-graphics-tv-news-1235832629/

20 minutes ago, Briella said:

I can't see how stations like FOX8 in New Orleans will ever do this.

Easy, they change to “WVUE 8” or “News 8” or something along those lines. 

11 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Are they still trying to work in the WUPL branding on the WWL shows (on the bug), even though the only common denominator is the 7-9am newscast that ended up there because CBS forced them to carry CBS This Morning once and for all?

In the newscasts, no. The bug just cycles through the logo in my post and the WWLTV.com logo, even when the morning news moves to WUPL. (AFAIK, WUPL still has a 6:30pm newscast too.)

Also, the morning traffic anchor confirmed WWL also received new theme music exclusive to them. There's definitely more jazzy horn elements.

Here's this morning's open - they started with the wrong bug in the L3s but corrected quickly.

https://www.wwltv.com/video/news/live_stream/wwl-louisiana-morning-news-at-430-am/289-c9822f51-4e97-441f-9f26-a4e4abe98d0f

WWL-TV in New Orleans has dropped the long-standing “Eyewitness News” moniker for “WWL Louisiana”. So now it’s “WWL Louisiana News at XX”. Apparently a new tagline/positioner too?

WWL-TV has in the past used “Louisiana’s News Leader” as a positioner, but “WWL Louisiana” just sounds weird to me.

Any other Tegna stations trying something similar?

In a press release, Michael Corn, President of News at NewsNation, said, “NewsNation’s mission is to provide fair and unbiased news coverage, and that’s the way we will approach this important debate. We take this responsibility very seriously and are proud to help inform and educate voters and to contribute to the democratic process.”

Dude gonna really sit there with a straight face and say “fair and unbiased coverage” with Megyn Kelly as a moderator.

Looks like the Retro Local on the 8s and Twilight Live are dead - schedule now has Heavy Rescue in those timeslots.

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2023/09/itat-mnf/

Odd that a new "musical anthem"  for MNF is starting in Week 2, but there was a nugget of info confirming the refreshed MNF look is just for Monday Night, since the other NFL shows have kept the neon green accents.

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New Logo, Graphics Join Music in New Look in 2023 Season
ESPN Creative Studio developed a brand enhancement across the main telecast, Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli, and Monday Night Countdown. The brand includes a new logo identity, music theme, score bug, informational system, augmented reality virtual execution, and animation look driven by light activations.

While at least so far the NFL shows on ESPN have kept the neon green accents, another hint that MNF might include more red comes from a new 30 spot for the NFL on ESPN.

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2023/09/espn-debuts-latest-creative-of-its-ready-for-football-platform/

Could this holding image on the ESPN+ page for MNF Week 1 give a hint as well? MNF Shield shape is the same as the new one, not seeing neon green, more team colors....

ESPN hasn't made a big deal about any new graphics for MNF yet, but that logo does live on NFL.com's Monday Night Football Schedule page:
https://www.nfl.com/schedules/monday-night-football/

1 hour ago, Spring Rubber said:

It's been such a pain for the last 7 years that The Weather Channel brand is used by two separate companies. While the TV network technically has its own website, they almost never refer to it because they know people will inadvertently go to IBM's TWC website instead.

Actually, that weloveweather site is dead now so that's why you don't see them mention it anymore.

I know the two are separate, but The Weather Company is no longer an IBM company - Big Blue sold it to a private equity group.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/22/ibm-sells-the-weather-channel-and-the-rest-of-its-weather-business.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/the-weather-company-sold-francisco-partners-1235571884/

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The sale marks the end of a seven-year run for The Weather Company at the technology giant, which originally bought the assets as part of a plan to bulk up its data offering and build out its Watson Internet of Things Unit. Now, however, it doesn’t view the asset as part of its core offering. “Over the last few years, we’ve evolved IBM to be a hybrid cloud and AI company,” stated Rob Thomas, svp software and chief commercial officer at IBM, in announcing the sale.