WXmanTim
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OMG - why are they treating the Gannett ownership like they owned them for years? It is not scandalous to say "our new parent company."
BTW on a side note - because I live far far away from a Belo station, I noticed watching KHOU 11 recently that the OTS are to the far right of the screen. Do they single-stream their channels as HD only or does the OTS get cut off when watching on an SDI channel?
It gets cut off and it is annoying as hell. Also cut off is the live bug and the secondary "segment" bug
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I think it was mentioned a few weeks back that their web stream is having some weird issues putting out the music. On the direct-to-video clips they have on the website, and on the cable feed, they sound normal.
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).
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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.Jesus, it sounds like it's being played in the key of R.
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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
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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
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Two more uploads today.
First, a partial ABC World News Now (Nov. 16, 1995). Any idea who the anchor opposite Kevin Newman is?
That would be Bill Greenwood. He was a DC-based correspondent for most of his career at ABC.
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Our weekend meteorologist gave us video of himself during his television weather debut -- 30 years ago this month.
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).One of my personal favorites of fake things. The 1983 movie Special Bulletin follows a nuclear disaster in Charleston, South Carolina, through the lens of the television network RBS. The first minute or so shows some good "presentation" though I feel like I've seen some of the elements before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKY-2zkWJuo
(I particularly like the logo.) The film was shot on videotape to allow for a more realistic feel (and it does look very real, too real in fact), but they sometimes pushed the limit: the Charleston station was "WPIV", and the network that aired this film was NBC (then-affiliate WCIV). Other familiar elements include the CBS slab serif chyron typeface.
The credits list Image West as providing some effects and Ferdinand Jay Smith as composing the promo and news music. The latter, under the name Jay Advertising, is credited with a WHEC theme from the late 1970s.
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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Hopefully, the sales of the Dyle TV tuner will be disappointing. In my chat with the GM of one of our local (non-O&O) stations which is underutilizing its subchannel bandwidth, this is what is holding them up from putting a service like Antenna TV on their .2 subchannel which currently runs an automated weather loop (and E/I programming at the worst possible time any station could schedule it).
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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KFMB 1991 Open:
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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Too bad jacky9br's not based in New Orleans or the Mississippi Coast; we would've gotten gems from WYES, WLOX, or even Mississippi ETV (which are all sorely needed on YouTube)!
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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I'm guessing the applause is not truly part of the opening...this clip is possibly part of a Craig Kilbourn skit during his time on The Late Late Show or even The Daily Show.
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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WCCO-TV weekend 6pm open (11/14/09)
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.
WJZ-TV talent 11pm open (9/23/09)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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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfRuHLRvLrI
1994 - KNBC's coverage of the Northridge earthquake (I'd like to know, what theme is being used?)
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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Good Morning Arizonaaaa!
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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WMAQ, Chicago, 1993, long close (featuring
WMAQ, Chicago, Ron Magers' farewell from the station, 1997:
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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You're probably familiar with this 1970s promo for
...well, here's a (far inferior, IMHO) version that aired on WCBS in NYC:
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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KSAT serial killer open:
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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Future "Entertainment Tonight" host Mary Hart doing the news in Omaha from around the late '70s:
Hope we see old clips of Nancy O'Dell pre-"Access Hollywood" next!
Jonathan Allen
Not to mention Headline News anchor Chuck Roberts...who appears to have drank from the Dick Clark water well of eternal youth.
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Snow Report Houston TV News 1/13/1981 Ron Stone Steve Smith:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws7ffEevkxs
Found another good snow report in Houston: KTRK's "
" from 1989 featuring Frank Billingsly.
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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.