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New Zealand's TV3 ... I mean +HR=E, got a new name and branding.

 

Not many people seem to like it. I'm a little mixed, but their previous logo looked a bit dated and serious. This feels energetic and young, but the logo is a little off.

John Kucko's Excessively Large String of Mic Flags is probably the best new Super Bowl tradition of the decade:

 

Last year:

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And now, consolidation is weighing him down even more this year.

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Conspiracy theory, or actual glitch?

Here4Columbus?

ColumbusHomePage?

DiscoverColumbus?

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Okay now they're ripping off ESPN instead of CBS.

It's coming up with the new one for me. It kind of reminds me of Sinclair's and Gray's designs fused together. Overall, it's actually bland.

WXIN sports anchor Charly Arnolt is moving ... to "wrestling"?!

 

(Wrestling is in quotation marks for a reason. WWE is more soap opera than an actual interpretation of a sport)

 

To go with WBBH's "take" of Look F, sister station WZVN got an actually not too bad version of KABC's old/KGO's graphics. It's clear that Fort Myers, besides the Fox station, is a market full of knock-offs.

As seen here, at the Philippine Basketball Association on Sports5 (could've made that bug a bit less huge?), something looks a bit familiar (and eew, Impact?!)

 

http://deadspin.com/ivan-johnson-got-banned-for-life-from-playing-basketbal-1758982714?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Well, KQDS isn't using the KDVR ripoff anymore. But they now seem to now be using a knock on the current Fox O&O graphics on at least the L3s.

 

 

Is it me, or does it look a bit better with the fade and the flipped layout?

 

So, uh, Fox called?

On a related note, the Yankees are coming back to WPIX this season.

I think Quincy does have a somewhat standardized package that they, presumably, put more than $60 into.

 

Though it does look a little old by now; betting there will probably be a new standardization for all their stations post-merger.

http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/St-Louis-County-Attorney-Duluth-Officer-involved-shooting-justified-285228521.html

 

Not sure if lower-budget take on CBS O&O Look Mach II or simply influenced. I see Gotham and similar L3s about.

 

Why would they? They're not owned by Nexstar...

 

It was sort of a "they're doing it like Nexstar, but thankfully they're not doing that" remark, for the record.

Inergize seems to be letting its clients use the Nexstar templates.now; Morris Multimedia seems to be shifting some of its sites to it.

 

http://www.41nbc.com/home

http://www.wtvq.com/home

 

Ironically, two of Morris's former stations (WDHN and KARK) are owned by Nexstar. Thankfully they didn't get their silly domain names (LexingtonHomepage? MaconMatters?). I still think those navbars need to be restyled a bit (bolder font?), it looks too plain.

KING might be moving to the Home Plate Center, an office complex near Safeco Field, in 2015.

 

We might also be getting a streetside studio out of the deal too.

KUTV seems to be phasing in the new graphics on weather segments, but everything else is still using the blue/red package from before.

 

 

Also I must agree; those weather icons need to be re-done. Personally I'd make the suns match the orange-yellow on the subheading. They also got the Sinclair "responsive" template on their site now too.

WCHS colluded to censor coverage of West Virginia congressional nominee Ed Rabel because he was involved in an op-ed criticizing local news

 

Yeah, that's fair coverage. /sarcasm

Do you like early-2000's-grade renditions of the Fox O&O look? WFQX has you covered

 

I'll tell you one thing; some people might not like how Nexstar runs their stations, but they have developed a good knack for making them look good, however.

 

So I take it that KTVB is not known for subtlety.

 

It's almost as if they saved some of the background images from Gannett Presto, and uploaded them onto the Broadcast Interactive CMS.

 

Personally, I'm reminded of how WJRT managed to backport the old ABC O&O design into WorldNow after they got sold to SJL (they now, unfortunately, use the stock layout. Boring)

 

but yeah, the stripes on the sections are a little mis-aligned.

 

Vertigo is the name of a broadcast graphics platform.

 

Miranda; wasn't Belo supposed to be standardizing around them with that aborted KHOU package? Maybe they ported the new Gannett system to be compatible with it?

It's official now: KING's got the Gannett graphics now.

 

Good time for a change: the old Belo look wasn't aging very good (it looked about 2006-quality). It's different, to say the least. Its fitting that it has that Windows 8 vibe to it, given it's Seattle.

 

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The uploader, who used to work for a Citadel station, said that basically their internal motto is "get the cheapest people and equipment we can and try to make it look like New York City."