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Wow. Bland and uninteresting. In action, sort of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIjPxDHIgQ4

It's not an improvement. Classic Nexstar.

It's the new IN design. Put news staff in corners so they feel the impending collapse of the industry.

This is what happens with Nexstar stations. WTTV, KDVR and now KXAN gets a new set but refuses to pay their creative and air staff what they are worth. This tells you all you need to know about the group. They care little about people.

Lame. This set does not look dated in the slightest.

It's a thing...

I mean, you should probably see a neurologist about that.

I see Perry keeping whatever programs are contractually obligated by DWB and Paramount as part of the sale (for however many years per sale contract) and the rest being local news and NewsNation programming, eventually converting the network in-whole to NewsNation Local and the cable-channel into NN+. Once again, Perry is not a smart man.

The high ceilings here scream news or sales: Welcome to the new studio:

The same dumpster that this graphics package belongs in?

Stronk. That was a message meant for a PM.

Holy sh*t. It's beyond me how he could be this awful. I seriously can't imagine. I was so sure he wouldn't be this bad, but then I saw the poorly ramped text and I had an inkling that I was sadly wrong.

What do you expect for a package that's almost 12 years old?

You can see how well that's going with all the money they're dumping into NewsNation.

Paramount CEO Bob Bakish Maybe Just Hinted That Paramount Is for Sale Sook can't even manage NewsNation or his own affiliates competently.

TEGNA did not DO those graphics. They RFP'd design firms and those came from Troika. At the time, Troika had laid off most of their designers. Therefore, instead of anything original to meet TEGNA's needs, they recycled graphics designed from an advertising campaign for another client. I'm certain that TEGNA paid out the nose, regardless, for recycled mediocrity.

Funny you should say that. The outgoing graphics were created by Ruth Dial, former partner/cofounder of Giant Octupus' and Nexstar's graphics creator (at LinearDrift) Rey Rodriguez. These new graphics have been 3 years in the making, created by Vivid Zero, a subsidiary of the clueless media consultants SmithGeiger who have no business owning a graphic design firm. Principle: Michael Vamosy (formerly of Stun Creative)

I think we're basically in a wait-and-see at the moment. David Zaslav and his team are doing an assessment of their assets. So it's going to be a slow roll for now. We know that Paramount is interested in selling their position in the CW because Paramount itself may be looking for new owners. Sale of the CW, for Paramount, helps their books look better, as does basically shuttering the London bureau. Also, having a long-term production contract with whomever buys the network looks good for Paramount's sale. However, because the CW is owned 50/50 by Paramount and DiscoveryWarner, there's effectively a 2-party consent rule for whomever buys out one or both owners. My two cents is that I think David would be in a good position to buy out Paramount and sell a minority stake to Nexstar. I think the DiscoveryWarner catalogue is so big with mixed programming opportunities, that there's enough to flush out a whole first-run network and partner with Nexstar to develop network news programming on the CW, helping Nexstar find their footing with NewsNation and stabilizing CNN. Both cable networks are in desperate need of help and this could give them that opportunity by relying on each other.

Nice! Something human and sane.

Unlikely they'll do anything.

This feels very much like the Hothaus package made for WOWK

Ha! Called it.

I'm sorry. Are you under some illusion that TV News hypes for anything important these days? Of course this is the case.

Licensing costs.

Oh yeah. Ironically, Matt worked on this too.