ToriElectra

Well, it looks like 2003 all over again; when they rebranded to Fox 29 it was "Fox 29 Morning News", then Good Day. Now the name has returned, and expanded.

Actually, this new guy replaced Mike Lewis as the VO for the "Protect our Children" things.

Tim Fleischer anchored the morning news today with Toni Yates; he was pretty good.

Well, they should have at least repainted it more recently; it's still emblazoned with the JC Burns look from the 90's.

Has anyone noticed how, the AccuWeather background animation now has a bit of yellow-white coloring on the right side? It reminds me of the tops of the desks in the studio.

Remember, this guy's been inaccurate before, so just file the info away and wait patiently.

Probably because it's easier to go back to the newsroom and do it there rather than rush back into the studio and wait for the weather breaks and then go back for a few hours until noon.

I'm betting they just took a background graphic from somewhere and tinted it blue.

For the past couple months they've been introducing a ton of new animations and modifications to the graphics. For breaking news, the open's BG is now colored red and a far more urgent cut of music is used, and the lower thirds display "BREAKING NEWS" in a red rounded rectangle. A lot of stories are now prefaced with animations featuring the name of the region where the story is (NJ, Westchester, etc.), and it seems that they had Charlie van Dyke re-record portions of the First @ 4 talent intro for whatever reason.

They recently updated their traffic graphics and aren't really using the title "Metro Traffic" to refer to the traffic reports anymore (instead they're using what they use to refer to the reports during First at 4 and at 5: the "Commuter Alert").

I think the set is overdue for a makeover. I'd replace the (rather faded) Fox 5 logo on the front of the desk with a LCD screen, the wooden paneling would be replaced with red paneling and the duratrans would be replaced with large LCD paneling, while the changing colors would be updated. The colors on the pillars would be widened and the colors on the desk would have more striping. For breaking news, it would be red. The colors would be green for sports and business. White would be used for specials and developing stories.