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What do you mean? Their Gannett site is already live.

 

Ugh, forgot about that, sorry. Must have gotten confused.

KTVB wants that new website bad, but their wait will be over soon.

Considering how hideous modern local TV logos tend to be, bland logos are probably the better route...

And Serpentine has a reputation for being dated-looking.

No. I did a Google, and Sarentino is a freeware knockoff of Serpentine.

Sarentino? Don't you mean Serpentine?

Oh god, the music sounds awful.

Also, you just know that if they dumped the "11" they'd probably replace it with some ugly, overwrought POS.

The current KHOU look is by Hothaus? I thought it was Giant Octopus, but upon closer inspection some of the lighting smacks of Hothaus work.

Despite what I said about liking the current Gannett look, I don't actually mind Hothaus or GO stuff that much and even like some of it; it's too bad Hothaus got saddled with KHOU's ultra-tacky logo. Hoping that'll change (though, oddly, it smacks of updated 1980-90s Gannett sensibilities, as per the looks of WXIA, KARE, and KUSA)

The version of DIN that is the most common, and the one I think Gannett uses, is FF DIN.

 

They're having some growing pains, which is expected. The Gannett stations had rundowns and semi-permanent lower thirds when they switched. The Belo stations didn't.

 

I half wonder if the dislike towards this look is just because of standardization. I really think this ad sums up how most of us feel when something gets changed. And why we should not feel that way.

 

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I've seen people here say that their disdain for this look was because it was too simple (what they meant was: not Hothaus/GO-like enough - not shiny enough, not conventional enough for them).

 

*Yawn* Too much Gotham these days.

 

That's not Gotham, it's a lame knockoff of it. That "R" makes me shudder to imagine how nasty some of the other characters in that typeface must be!

 

That WTVJ entry for MCTYW is interesting. A few CBS affiliates did use the theme.

 

Note: That ad is great because I've noticed that font used elsewhere in station ads, most notably WTOL which had the slogan "MCTYW" in that font, and I have to take it they used the theme.

 

It's ITC Busorama. Unfortunately, some of the characters used in that logo didn't make the leap to digital type.

Has anyone dug up whoever composed this WRIC theme, by the way?

 

Are children actually stupid enough to watch the drivel that qualifies as cartoons these days? The cartoons of my youth, Underdog, Yogi Bear, Jetsons, Bugs Bunny, etc. were far more entertaining than the crap you see today. Everything was done better back in the old days, from the story line to the humor to the music!

 

 

I'm much younger than you, but I do remember all of those things from Cartoon Network and Boomerang. I do have a fondness for Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera, but I did revisit Underdog recently and it doesn't hold up to me.

CBS's old Saturday morning block, Cookie Jar TV, was pretty bad. The block's namesake and programmer was a Canadian outfit that cranked out cheap garbage primarily to sell to broadcasters outside of Canada and collect Canadian content tax incentives. At least one of the shows, Liberty's Kids, wasn't made by them, though; they inherited it from US-based DIC, which they bought out in 2008 (and gained the rights to program the block from). I've always loathed that one...

Gari lifting from TV show themes is also evident in

I know someone elsewhere on the Internet who has been wanting to know who was behind Discover the Difference for ages. He thinks it might be Non-Stop Music...

Dallas...was TM Productions based there? I would have said JAM but it doesn't sound quite like them.

Ugh, sorry about that KOTA thread. I hadn't checked this one in a while, and didn't know it had been posted about in here...

I'd like to hear Arnold's take on the Enforcer sig. I'm getting tired of Gari's versions...

It's possible that Wendy Williams could move to WJZY when WAXN's deal to air it is up. The Fox O&Os have a deal to air it and always had.

KTVU already has a duopoly partner, KICU.

Cookie Jar got bought out by DHX Media last year. Maybe that had something to do with it?

Didn't the NBC and Telemundo O&Os used to be part of "NBC Universal Television Stations"?

Those KMGH opens are among the worst ever...hideous.

They're not hideous. They're edgy. KMGH was going to be the future of Denver news, with a hard-hitting, tabloid format.

Unfortunately, it didn't catch on with us idiots and it flopped.

Seriously, it's a good thing. KDVR, however, tried tabloid and was successful, though it's probably less the content and more Fox being more popular than The WB/The CW down on KWGN.

Some things from KCNC's now-canceled 4PM news in 2004. They were still called "News4"; they would drop that for "CBS4 News" the next year. The 4PM news ended in 2006, and was replaced with Oprah.

Open:

Bumper and Talent:

Health Alert Open:

Midway Point Rejoin (the cut of Newstime used sounds kind of like 615's now retired Pinnacle):

Not news, but I added some more stuff:

Fine Living's last sign-off, with the Grim Reaper:

Graphics from Cooking Channel's first day:

This one's from Australia: an ID for the defunct Northern Rivers Television: