WXmanTim
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TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion
WXmanTim replied to ABC 7 Denver's topic in Corporate Chat
If the ots was all the way cut off (like the live bug is) it would be one thing. But on an SD feed a portion of the graphic (20 - 25%) is visible in the frame, which made it even more ridiculous. -
TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion
WXmanTim replied to ABC 7 Denver's topic in Corporate Chat
It gets cut off and it is annoying as hell. Also cut off is the live bug and the secondary "segment" bug -
TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion
WXmanTim replied to ABC 7 Denver's topic in Corporate Chat
That just doesn't make sense. The playback system (at least in my shop) is all inclusive. Music & vo are embedded in the same computer file (in the FOX automated system it's called a PDR-X file). If they were having streaming issues the entire playback clip would be distorted, not just a single element (in this case the music bed). -
TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion
WXmanTim replied to ABC 7 Denver's topic in Corporate Chat
Wow. That's horrible. They have definitely slowed the theme down by about 25%, maybe by half. You can really hear how draggy it sounds just before the "this is home" 3-note signature. Almost like a really old vhs tape that's having tracking issues. Yet the vo sounds fine. If it was an audio or playback problem, within the system, the vo would be distorted too. -
TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion
WXmanTim replied to ABC 7 Denver's topic in Corporate Chat
KHOU will likely debut the new look soon. Last night during a 11News ITeam report on efforts to control the bird population at Bush Intercontinental Airport, they used fullscreen elements from the Gannett package. Unfortunately I can't post a link to the video from their mobile site. They've also been using the Gannett package base maps for about the last month or two -
TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion
WXmanTim replied to ABC 7 Denver's topic in Corporate Chat
Im actually looking forward to these debuting on KHOU. I've disliked the hothaus look since it debuted. The only thing I liked about the entire look was the weather graphics. One of the big things that bothered me about the look was the OTS, live and secondary bug elements were set outside the SD safe zone. Not everyone has an HDTV nor does everyone pay Comcast for an HD box. In my opinion they were a big downgrade from the package that debuted with "KHOU Stands for Houston" image campaign. What's interesting is the Gannett package is very similar to KHOU's previous graphics -
That would be Bill Greenwood. He was a DC-based correspondent for most of his career at ABC. http://www.televisionnewscenter.org/bios/bio-greenwood.html
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Oh wow! Not that I remember Mr. Lauria specifically, but I do remember C13 News. The only "primetime" newscast in the area for years. I believe they came on at 930 pm. At the time WCEE was picked up by most of the cable systems in central and southern Illinois and had a decent OTA signal too. They were a fairly decent general entertainment Indie until the early 90s when Paxson got ahold of it and decimated the syndicated lineup before aiming the signal at St Louis. Broadcasting out of studios in Mt Vernon, IL I think their *very* low budget newscast lasted maybe 5 or 6 years, if that.
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Another good fake news event movie was the Halloween 1994 CBS alien-invasion movie "Without Warning" which featured a number of actual TV news anchors and reporters in including Sander Vanocur (who had recently retired from ABC) and then-KCBS anchor Bree Walker. The program also used the CBS news graphics package (though with an alternate logo). Without Warning [Full] (1994): http://youtu.be/f9xMTA7qhZM
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@tyrannicalbastard (seems I can't quote posts on the mobile version on the site): KREX and KAUZ used the syndicated versions of the WEWS package. So did KFBB-Great Falls (my old station), right down to the logo as well.
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Pardon my ignorance, but does Dyle TV not work with subchannels?
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Resistance to programming sub channels has to end sometime. Even Fox got into the game with Weigel (Movies!) and AccuWeather (in some markets). It's an additional revenue stream and I think it can be pretty well argued that it's a negligible ratings drain on the main channel (especially in large markets where each network and netlet has a full-power affiliate). If viewers aren't watching the main channel, they're aren't going to watch. But they might stumble onto the sub while searching through the cable listings. Might as well capture the ratings and ad revenue instead of giving it up to the cable company. As long as the sub offers good programming (and ABC I'm looking at you as an example of crappy subchannel programming) the viewers might stick around.
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And Larry Mendte with the weather... ...hahahahhaah...that's was almost as fun as the first time I came across the KCBS open featuring Keith Olbermann's mullett!
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The only thing he would have to put up for MPB-Television (it hasn't been Mississippi ETV since the early 80s, if not before) is their :15-sec station IDs which consists of different shots from around Mississippi (a county courthouse in one, some wildlife in another, the Biloxi beachfront, etc), the MPB logo (which is an M with what looks like a tire treadmark through it) and their station/repeater COLs scrolling across. Sometimes they get fancy and read their positioning statement "Educating, Entertaining and Enlightening: MPB." That's it.
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If you'll notice the NBC peacock in the lower left, I imagine this is a fairly recent clip perhaps from "Tonight" or "Late Night" with Kilborn hawking his (now cancelled) Fox show.
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Quite possibly one of the oddest openings I've seen. A little jazz instrumental then the headlines and it's "welcome to the laid back news" on WCCO. I almost expect the anchors to be in barcoloungers with their feet kicked up. Is Kai Jackson their only nightside reporter? Is that why he's in the talent open? Or does he handle breaking news at the desk, so Denise and Vic can focus on more important things, like the latest celebrity gossip?
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Channel 4 News, the tabloid years? This open, to me, seems similar to the KCBS "Action News" open from the same era.
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Don't knwo if this has ever been posted, but youtube user "NewsActive3" has a vault of opens and promos spanning the 1960s to the 2000s. He's up to 22 postings and there are some real gems there.
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Regarding Mississippi State: I am presently a student, finishing my degree in Meteorology (broadcast). Probably one of the best programs in the nation. Most on-air meteorologists are graduates (in some form or another) of MSU. The professors are really good...the cirriculum itself is very strong and you will learn an incredible amount in your last two years when you get into your major classes. The broadcast section is top-notch. The current instructor, Renny, is a graduate of MSU and worked in Kansas City before coming back to teach. After he got here, the department purchased an brand new WeatherCentral graphics suite for the "Practicum in Broadcast Meteorology" courses. We also have a full studio set-up with two cameras, chromakey and desk set-up, full editing suite and control room. The great thing about it is students are allowed access to the entire set-up outside class hours. You could literally go in at 5am in the morning and practice if you so chose. The only drawback is that Starkville is, literally, in the middle of nowhere. 3-hours from Memphis, 2.5 from Jackson, MS and Birmingham, AL. 4.5 hours from New Orleans, 4.5-5 from Nashville. It's a small-ish town (about 22,000 full-time residents) but we have an 8-screen theatre, wal-mart (natch) and most fast food and chain restaurants and a good number of locally-owned outlets as well. If you are serious about studying Meteorology and going into broadcasting with your degree, I highly recommend MS State.
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Exactly. The news director at the time of the singing WGCL was the former news director at KTVK-Phoenix. Obviously didn't last long.
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Interesting. I always thought that Mr. Magers followed Carol Marin out the door the same night, the Thursday (5/1/97) before Jerry Springer's first commentary for WMAQ. Thanks for posting this. I would love to see her surprise on-air announcement sometime.
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The great names of WCBS - Roland Smith, Jim Jenson, John Stossel and... ...John Tesh? heh. Even in the 70s he had ginormous hair.
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This one is back online, here Pre-Oprah AM Chicago from 8/28/1981 hosted by Robb Weller. Also features the last four minutes of "Good Morning America," some commercials and an Eyewitness News bumper with a very young Mary Ann Childers.
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OH NOES!!!! Salter and Gallagher are comin 2 get meez!!! But seriously, that has got to be one of the scariest news opens in the nation. In my opinion, it's roughly an echo of one scary news opening from 1992: Eh, not really... it's just really tabloidy ("slutty" as Chris likes to put it). No serial killer looks there. yeah, the punches of sound as it zooms into the still store photos of the anchors in the KSAT open is much more over the top than the WBBM open, which preceded it by a couple of years. On reflection, the WBBM open, while over the top, is really kinda quaint by today's standards. But I can understand why it was so derided when it first premiered - tt was just such a departure from the previous WBBM presentation
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Not to mention Headline News anchor Chuck Roberts...who appears to have drank from the Dick Clark water well of eternal youth.