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I did a search in this thread and was surprised that nobody had really mentioned the Gannett opens yet. God, are these awful. [YT]NJDf6qHY88I[/YT]

Who could remember KMGH's "Real Life, Real News"? [YT]DFQSsOTe8WQ[/YT][YT]Y9GD-sURggQ[/YT][YT] Ac6iwKiWMtc[/YT]

I already said some of this on YouTube in the comments, but thank you for those. I watched that newscast everyday after school until they cancelled it. I remember that they kept the News4 branding for a while even though the station officially became "CBS4". In retrospect, it looks somewhat silly, but that 2003 revamp looks much nicer than the 2008 revamp or the new graphics that came in last month. I like that set a lot better than the current one. I also miss Stephanie Riggs. And Marcia Neville, even though she hated my school.

Close, those lower thirds come from iMovie. They didn't even bother to change the color of the lower third from the default (that subdued plum color). The fact that they use free software to produce and edit their "newscast" and are so cheap that they haven't even ponied up the $100 for even Final Cut Express really proves that their effort is half-assed at best. Sure, perhaps they don't need a live control room, remote trucks, etc. but with just a few hundred bucks, they could use better software and better workflows to make a better quality news program that would be on-par with college film students who use Final Cut.

KCNC used to use that music...in the 80's. I think the main issue with that open is the graphics, not the music. That "This is WVUA" rotating box looks really odd.