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3 hours ago, DirtyHarry said:

Pros and cons of cursive? LOL

I guess it’s teaching them.  My school class apparently stands out from the others because they taught a different style for a year or two - things like M,N,Q and Z are completely different from the mainstream . 

26 minutes ago, kdex86 said:

I've noticed some weird "behavior" with WCVB and WMUR between 7:20 AM and 7:30 AM.  This 10-minute segment is very "commercial heavy" on both stations, with about 2 minutes of local news/weather/traffic sandwiched around *8* minutes of commercials.  I've noticed the local news cut-in from GMA starts at 7:23 on these stations instead of 7:25, and even more annoying, they go back to commercial within the local news update, separating the "news" and the "weather/traffic" segments.

 

WHY do they do this?  you have about 3 minutes of commercials, then 1 minute of news, only to go BACK to commercials for another 2 minutes, then 30 seconds of weather, 30 seconds of traffic, then another 3 minutes of commercials before returning to GMA.  Who in the right mind wants to watch 8 minutes of commercials?  Are there certain times of the morning like this one where "the bills MUST be paid at this time"?

 

WBZ and WBTS in Boston air their local news updates at this time of morning "in one piece", starting at 7:25.  "One piece" meaning news/weather/traffic in about 2-3 minutes, with no commercial break within the update.

I believe GMA does not give time back to affiliates until 7:26 and they air the bulk of the ads - the same is said for Today.  Two minutes of news and two minutes of ads is pretty normal. 

Edit: I am surprised at how early GMA goes to affiliate time today it was at 7:23,  They had solid content up until 7:20 with no ads (save for weather). All I can think of is that perhaps GMA is giving the affiliates one hole to fill with news, a break for traffic and weather and then some network ad inventory. 

WBAL-TV is taking the highly rated morning show of their sister radio station WIYY/98 Rock and putting it on TV. It will consist of 30 minute episodes airing after SNL, apparently it will take clips from their show and put it on air.  They said it won’t be just a bunch of random clips but they will be strung together and described similar to pop up video.  They said it was apparently a suggestion from the head of Hearst TV (which oversees the two radio stations). You can get more information here and there’s a YouTube video with their segment with WBAL GM Dan Joerres. 

Apparently its going to be a miniseries but with a possibility of more in the future. 

I was watching WABC recently and the one thing that detracted me were how in your face they were, the constant use of transitions and animations.

11 hours ago, justin2kx said:

too little too late (had to fix my phone a bit) but here's the mistaken promo talked about. 

 

Maybe it is being prevented. I was expecting a completely generic spot not one with added time and station graphics.

The font NBC is using is the font Sky uses.  They’re using two completely separate scoreboards. 

I’m betting the house that this was a mistake. It’s a volatile election year and common sense (and history) show that stations ADD newscasts rather than get rid of them during presidential election years.  

Was it a generic promo (not mentioning New York) from Ellen? Many stations still clear Ellen at 4pm and almost every one that cleared both aired Steve at 3pm. 

49 minutes ago, NowBergen said:

Anyone know what the deal is with Drew Wilder?  I’m visiting DC and he is a reporter on WRC as their Northern VA reporter.  Is he doing double duty in DC and N.Y.?

No clue but David Culver was WRC’s Northern Virginia reporter,  he left for a CNN job. 

Edit: Looks like Drews their reporter,

@AaronQ do you know if it was simulcast on Sky Sports News?

1 hour ago, wabceyewitness said:

 

 

Just a wall. 

 

Oh I thought it was this where the large Eyewitness News and logo appears between the main video wall and the standup/demo area you pictured.  Was that video wall updated as well?

On 8/3/2019 at 9:18 PM, IceManNYR said:

The before and after of the changes of the video wall set for in studio interviews and weather forecasts.

In addition to changing the video panels to a solid screen they added two dark blue panels to the top and bottom on the right side.

What’s the blue thing to the left of the logo? Is that a screen as well.  I recall when the studio launched it looked like there was a screen there. 

2 hours ago, DirtyHarry said:

 

That newsroom they have pictured in the article looks very similar to the setup WBNS and WTHR are using, with that round center pod. is that something that is an industry trend, or did they design their newsrooms that way in anticipation of selling out to Tegna?

Yeah no way they designed in intention of TEGNA. It’s a general industry trend now to but the assignment/newsdesk at the center of the room. It’s either in the middle or against the wall in the middle.  It’s so Information can flow quickly.

7 hours ago, IceManNYR said:

 

Fox News Channel Spins Its ‘Cube’ Off the Screen

https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fox-news-channel-cube-graphics-tv-news-1202554511/

Thanks, I think I was thinking of Fox when I wrote that post.

6 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

1. It's an article from 2017
2. What does this have to do with WABC Channel 7?

I was talking about the monitors being replaced possibly due to screen burn in.  @Eat News had posted that this was a problem with CNN when it launched, that many of their monitors had burnt in logos.  I mentioned wasn’t there a network who had their logo move a little bit to prevent burn in? So @IceManNYR linked to an article about the old animating Fox News logo which is what I think I was thinking about,  they animated it so there wouldn’t be screen burn in. 

1 hour ago, Eat News said:

 

Just depends on the monitor/tv manufacture. Some default to blue...some to green and some to black when signal is not present.

 

Funny monitor story...

In the mid to late 1990's CNN Atlanta was slowly replacing the original CRT monitors in the newsrooms, edit bays and control rooms. As engineers and contractors replaced the sets, many of the old ones ended up stacked in corners, hallways and break rooms.  As you can guess...some of those monitors "walked away" and found new homes as video game monitors, extra tv's for kids rooms or grandmas house...

 

It was not unusal to find some low paid CNN VJ or production type watching an old Sony monitor...with "CNN" burned into the CRT in the lower right corner of the screen.

 

 

(For you youngsters...CNN was not as graphic intense back then....but the yellow/orange CNN bug was always there, so the image would "burn in" the screen after being always on screen year after year.)

 

 

 

I heard that before.  Didn’t CNN or another network institute something where the bug moves slowly around a few pixels to prevent burn in?

14 minutes ago, RealNews18 said:

Do they leave it on all the time? I remember a few Facebook lives where the screens went black minutes after the newscast ended.. but that’s beside the point.. it looks great. I wish they’d use a live shot I think it would look great. 

I don’t know. Black could just be from lack of content being played and but the panel could still be on. But I’ve only seen it a handful of times in pictures.

I believe the monitors were left on when newscasts weren’t airing so people could look in on the street. The fact that most of the time it displayed the same image probably caused significant burn in. Additionally 9 years with it being on most of the day they probably were getting towards the end of their useful life.

1 hour ago, PhillyWatch said:

Something that's been bugging me forever...

 

What logo is that on this polo? Did it ever exist anywhere outside these shirts?

Reminds me of a logotype CBS used on air. 

I imagine the AccuWeather branding is still there and they adjusted the shot. 

On 7/12/2019 at 1:45 PM, IceManNYR said:

Baruch Shemtov said on Sukanya Krishnan's IG story he's leaving Fox5 for the Harvard Business School to get his MBA and then is starting a business.

Huh, earlier this summer he and several other entertainment reporters were upped to serve as entertainment reporters for the affiliate base. 

Also at one point his wikipedia page read like a press release. 

A lot of stations around the early 2010s decided to add “breaking news anchors”. Here in Baltimore and it sounds like elsewhere it’s a glorified reporter that stays in the studio and is the primary fill in. 

4 hours ago, civic110 said:

News 12 New Jersey's morning show is now available on WACP-Channel 4 throughout south Jersey and the Philadelphia region.

 

Interesting that Comcast will not add News 12 through south Jersey.

News 12 is exclusive to Altice subscribers.  I don’t know if Altice operates in South Jersey - if they do they I don’t see them giving it to Comcast.

Slight screw up this morning.  The show started with the normal Today wipe then the blue title slate for the recorded cold open remained on screen for seven seconds before they rolled the normal open with the anchors names.

9 hours ago, TVNewsJunkie15 said:

I forgot about Campbell Brown. She would have been a good choice too, Sadly her career has hit a stalemate since leaving CNN. I miss seeing her on TV.  I think you right, she probably left NBC  after because she was passed over for a job on Weekday TODAY Show. 

  

Campbell is probably making a lot more money than she was earning at NBC or CNN. She’s the head of Global News Partnerships at Facebook. 

20 minutes ago, TriangleTriadMediaNews said:

After an absence of four years, The Weather Channel is back on Verizon FIOS channel 611. It had been replaced back in 2015 by The AccuWeather Channel, which will remain on channel 119 SD/619 HD

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/wea...ns-1203247279/

I was somewhere locally with The AccuWeather Channel with their L bar - is the feed done locally or are there different feeds. 

1 hour ago, TVNewsJunkie15 said:

They also left out Meredith 

Odd because when Meredith Came along it was a major renovation. If I recall correctly there was a hole in the floor supposedly used for cooking segments that was closed off. And when she came they went full hd. I thought I saw her in one of the montages.