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1 hour ago, bhratbrat said:

Looks like from the gray graphics hub with some recoloring done

Agreed. I am happy that Gray is letting stations have control (for the most part) of their look. 

52 minutes ago, ColumbusNewsFan said:

I Called this three years ago when they first sold The Dispatch. I knew this was coming and THIS VERY COMPANY TOO!

 

Here the thing if you are Sinclair or Nexstar this morning... Columbus has just become a WIDE OPEN MARKET where WCMH or WSYX could EASILY be #1 in the market!

Indy is not the most stable of places these days either. With the WTHR sale, WRTV becomes the only station not seeing a owner change in the near future. 

8 minutes ago, GoldenShine9 said:

I know a lot of people are calling on WAND to hire Joe Crain, since they have an opening. However, that would be a legal disaster due to non-compete clauses - Sinclair would sue the heck out of them. Do adjacent markets trigger non-competes as well (say, if he took a job in Peoria?)

 

As a top free agent though, he'll find a job somewhere else much sooner most likely, my guess as a low to mid-market Chief Met. Unless The Weather Channel, WeatherNation or someone else wants to take him on?

Typically no. However, some contracts say you can't work 75 miles (example number) from the station's transmitter or studio.

CTM doesn’t roll off the tongue like GMA. 

23 hours ago, PTVNews said:

 

I'm curious about the dates on the opens. Do the opens render the dates dynamically from a graphics program or is it a pre-rendered video file?

The open most likely is ran out of the Chryon / VizRT / Ross XPression, whichever they use. It would allow the date to be changed without having to pre-render the open everyday (which would get annoying super fast).

6 minutes ago, iron_lion said:

The local news in NYC is feeling saturated with chs. 2 4 5 7 11 & 10/55 all having newscasts, with roughly the same reporting style (5 &11 having a few unique tweaks), plus 24/7 repeats on News 12 & NY 1, and CBSN NY

 

It would be nice to see WNBC relaunch a good quality version of the old "Live at 5" (before it became a regular style newscast).

 

The 4pm newscast is unnecessary. I can't see WNBC beating Eyewitness News or Judge Judy at 4:00. With all the news in NYC, more newscasts are just over the top. Perhaps the stations should adopt a less is more attitude when it comes to news output.

It doesn’t matter if the newscast is number 1. It is still adding dollars to the pocketbook.

22 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

That's not true though. They are eliminating the Limerick package group-wide.

The Limerick package is becoming dated. So many stations have mutilated it, it’s not funny. I just hope some of the in house station artists don’t design packages. Some of their work is BAD. 

The more I see the TEGNA graphics the more I like them. Their old logo looks great with the graphics. 

I wonder if they’ll keep TITP or go back to Enforcer. From what I can tell Gray doesn’t have a music company preference. 

8 hours ago, kmetz said:

Well, the community director position at WFTS is being terminated on April 5th. 

 

 

 

WRTV did that back in February.

50 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

It also looks like its going back to WOIO's first-ever branding... 19 News because Gray realized what Raycom and Scripps (KMGH) didn't... that having a city name in a newscast title is stupid.

It isolates the viewers who don't live in that city. 

It appears WATE has debuted it’s new look. 

2 hours ago, NEOMatrix said:

Pretty much when WOIO canned "Action News" was the death knell competitiveness at Reserve Square. Axing David Wittman, plus Denise Dufala (who had been at WOIO since 1995), and Romona Robinson pretty much sealed Snoozefest 19's fate. Now they're trying to build around the "19 First Alert" brand ("19 First Alert Headlines"?!? REALLY?!?) and Tucker and Tanaka. Now all we need is "Like Fireflies" to replace TITP and we have the potpourri of clusterfuck.

That's very WAFF of them. 

On 1/14/2019 at 1:29 PM, MidwestTV said:

RenderON tends to be flashy, so I'm curious to see how they would do a "flat" look.

This seems to be flattest thing I've found that RenderON has done. Which I wouldn't not oppose as a full on news look. 

11 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:

WTXL and KXXV now have the Scripps website design. Probably the graphics will be next, although if Scripps is getting a new package they may be a good place to test them out.

I've heard they are coming in the fourth quarter.

11 minutes ago, mre29 said:

 

Just out of curiosity, how does WTHR do with the young demo in its market?

 

Not well especially in the morning. FOX has beat them and RTV is gaining ground. 

WAVE in Louisville launched a 3:00pm newscast this week. 

On 1/29/2019 at 1:04 AM, Greggo said:

CBS Austin (KEYE) debuted the new graphics tonight. 

That graphic is so busy. 

The Scripps Graphics hub places certain franchises and big breaking stories in for the producers to use, it’s just remembering to see if you have a brand box available. 

3 hours ago, Weeters said:

 

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.

Scripps really likes using Renderon (do they still exist?) I’m interested in seeing what they would look like. 

1 hour ago, MidwestTV said:

 

Fascinating, so there is some input from the stations (though I don't really expect news managers to have in-depth musical analysis skills).

No, but they know what they want their market to sound like and they know what their competitors sound like. 

I recently moved stations and my ep said last year news managers at stations were asked to listen to music samples. So if or when new graphics come I almost guarantee new music will come. 

Also, interesting to note, my station doesn’t have have VizRT. We are still running with Chryon

51 minutes ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

KTNV, KERO, KMTV, and WFTX all have the new website layout... Rest soon to follow...

The next batch will launch on Thursday. 

Four WTHR photographers retired on Friday. It could be coincidence, but it seems fishy.

It appears KARK has new graphics. L3 look okay but the rest of the package looks undone.