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Here’s a montage of the new graphics and most of the set.

Bombed badly on WEWS or in general. The numbers locally seem to do well. Praise the font gods that Bank Gothic has been removed from many of the Hearst station logos. It was good the 90s and early aughts and conveyed some sense of urgency. But like anything it gets dated. I didn’t realize how bad the font was in hindsight when I read an article about the Baltimore Ravens put up one of Michael Phelps’ medal wins after a 2008 preseason game. Versus how it it appeared on the RavensVision boards in 2016: Back to the topic at hand here’s an article about how TV consultants work. Not only do they to focus groups they analyze the Nielsen ratings to what type of story gets the most eyeballs. Isn’t SNL Kagan the big TV consulting firm. There’s also a guy whose name I can’t remember who was involved with WSVN’s branding and now has a career in consulting.

Massive trolling would be putting a Russian flag outfront.

I’ve thought of planting a pride flag outfront or maybe a sign for the Democratic Governor on the public area. Also the big satellite truck based on its license plate is atleast new as they have license plates that weren’t revealed until September 2016.

Decided to drive around the Sinclair HQ today to see what’s back there. I would have gotten out of the car but there were way too many people in the parking lot at 10:30 AM. The satellite dishes are getting a wash down. A huge satellite truck. Looked relatively new. The satellite farm was getting mowed. Their helipad. Their ATSC 3.0 Test vehicle. Looks like a live truck with a mast but has a regular receiver antenna and for some reason a camera.

Yeah. Looks like I was wrong about the control room someone mentioned. It appears everything was redone. They automated their control room and added robotics. I’m wondering how many jobs were lost. http://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/our-new-look-fox45-studio-gets-a-major-makeover

During the 12:37 AM replay the old ticker covered up most of the lower thirds. The morning show still uses the L bar. Edit: During the morning shows it appears they use the verticallly oriented monitor wall as opposed to the large one as seen in the original post. The large LED video wall was used for weather. While on traffic computers it appears nothing changed but there appeared to be issues with cameras not loading on the map view. Now I’m not an expert on the Barron weather computers should a cursor appear on screen? Edit 2: I will make a video much later today. It will include the 4:30, 5-6AM and the 4-6pm shows. All depends on how fast my computer network can transfer and transcode TiVo files.

[media=tweet]1037796007579463681[/media] [media=twitter]1037813498057764866[/media] The desk next to the chroma key gives me TEGNA vibes where a lot of their elements have that color wood and a large metal (and very low) chair wall of sorts. [MEDIA=twitter]1037899380530065408[/MEDIA] The monitor walls on the right side of the screen has two or three vertical panels that “pop out” and were used during Sports Unlimited. I wonder if all the vertical monitors can move out for a effect.

The desk is giving me KNBC KWGN vibes, while the set backdrop the WTTG one with a central clear backdrop and a lower resolution side monitors. Aside from the back monitor wall I’d say I’m impressed with the set. Edit: After a little over a decade they dropped a v/o line and graphic mentioning in High Definition. I mean WBAL was the second to go HD a few months later and all there was was a little HD logo in the opening and the bug - once Diagrid 1.0 rolled around it was gone. WJZ probably had the HD in their logo for less than a year and WMAR didn’t even bother as they were the last (and last in the original Scripps group).

She seems to be moving down the NBC DMA totem pole. First DMA #4, then #7, and now #28. She must still be in good standing at NBC to keep moving within the company but the downward trend is puzzling. Maybe she’s married to someone who moves or got a job as Chief Meteorologist or better hours. Also, based on Keith Jones posts mentioning a couple of weeks for the move makes me think they’re waiting for the fall season. This major move is something that I would assume that they would promote for a while.

So that leaves what KYW the only one without a 4?

KGO anchor Natasha Zouves will be out til December after suffering a slip and fall at the station on some shampoo that was on the set floor. Which begs the question what was shampoo doing in the studio? I hope she gets better soon. I wonder what happened a sever concussion or a cracked skull? https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/8/29/slip-and-fall

[quote name='24994J']@ns8401 @EatNews Could both of you stop puffing out your chests, acting like a couple tough guys? Thanks.[/QUOTE] And of course I added to it.

You’d swim.

I’m betting it’s contractual/union issues preventing them from using the existing evening news anchors.

It does seem like that.

According to their website they need a ND for Pittsburgh and AND for LA and Philly.

I need to check but I think FTVLivea tweet earlier in the thread said it came from the Fox News building. I’m not sure but I assume the weather graphics could be loaded easily or already available for Fox News reporters who file reports for stations. Sometimes weather computers handle chroma keying internally and have the ability to choose router sources. The weather computer if it was set up to handle keying internally could easily select the correct camera and output the right program. Assuming the cameras and the distribution system were still up they could easily send it back to Fox HQ.

Or know no knows how to use it because we fired all the TDS and experienced staff. Edit: Also this breakdown must have been known well ahead of time in order for Shep to be in and the Fox crew to build the show. What I don’t understand is if they knew ahead of time why didn’t they have their anchors presenting from the Fox News studio?

WBAL seems to make it work on MeTV enough to do a 10PM newscast 7 Days a week. They’ve done weekday 10PM newscasts since March 2012 and on weekends going back to at least March 2016. They did do a 7AM newscast in 2011 that lasted until 2015 when it was exchanged in favor of a 4:30AM newscast on the main channel - from what I understood the cancellation may have been contractual (the success of the 7AM show led them to create the 10pm). They also heavily promote the 10PM newscast in their 5PM show and in ads through out the day. From what I understand the 10PM is very competitive with WBFF’s 10PM newscast. Also it helps that atleast in 2016 that WBAL was the highest rated MeTV affiliate.

Probably no legal advice. I thought in these situations lawyers will sit in on the interview. She probably wanted a free trip to NYC.

That young woman should have thought clearly before going on TV. She admitted to doing it and if an charges are brought or a lawsuit she can’t plea innocence.

That’s surprising to hear that they didn’t tell stations the ticker would change (or they didn’t know). The stations would have been told in advance to either change the software that inserts the time/temp or to load files. Since ABC doesn’t have a standard ticker cover/template I assume it leaves stations their own devices and hardware (I don’t know if the trigger for the time and temp is easily patched to the CG). Where as Today and CBS TM use the samehardware but different name (NameDropper HD and LIDIA, respectively) where there’s a much more uniform look. Also the ticker placement seems way too low and out of the 16:9 safe zone. I imagine it’s near the bottom frame of HDTVs screens if a person doesn’t have overscan turned off.

Brian West of KPNX was arrested. He always seemed to have the fun morning stories. The station shared his social media on Instagram so I followed him. Anyway the past day or rework he or a friend were turning thirty and they were partying. I bet it was related to that. http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/8/10/sobbing-tegna-reporter-busted-by-cops

They could do. It. Have Savannah ditch the 8:30 half hour to do the 9AM hour.