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What do you got to lose? Better to try something unique to spark energy and fail, than try nothing new and fail anyway.

11 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

It was an accent color on its logo, it wasn't a primary color. Those were gray and blue.

 

 

We need to investigate who decided "News on the Deuce" was a good idea and potentially file criminal charges.

Not a big fan of that desk, but props to WPSD for providing renderings.

15 hours ago, kfc513 said:

 

You'd be on the mark because they've already got a case study up... 

https://defiantla.com/work/scripps-news-group-rebrand/

 

Looks like they've done a lot of work for ABC.

It's a good open but my goodness is it long

I never understood the appeal of concert series. Even as news junkie kid/teen I thought they were weird. Honestly surprised they haven't been canned altogether by now.

30 minutes ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

Not bad, but they either need to reduce the font size or increase the space for the headlines... Seeing the word Investigation on 2 different lines looks tacky

That bugged me too. Someone created typed that out, looked at it, and said "yes this is good."

17 hours ago, Chicago2008 said:

More about that https://www.chron.com/sports/article/fox-26-houston-cuts-sports-department-will-kunkel-20362890.php

“We did not eliminate the sports department — we eliminated the sports anchor position,” Keane said. “We’re still going to cover sports extensively both with a reporter in the mornings and we’re going to gather and distribute sports content across all sports whenever there’s breaking news."

Typical corporate jargon speak. They did eliminate the sports department. If you let go of people whose job it was to do a very specific task, you eliminated the department and shifted the workload elsewhere. Also, specifically covering sports with a reporter in the morning? When nothing sportswise happens? Those reporters aren't going to have the same connections and relationships that the sports department will.

14 minutes ago, TheRob said:

 

Wild that an O&O in such a major pro (and college) sports town would cut the entire department.

4 hours ago, MediaZone4K said:

IMO the issue is more so NBC Nightly News than Tom. I like Lester Holt but the program's quality declined after took over. It's been rapid fire pacing, high story count, head spinning graphics in packages, and breaking news for the entire A block. All of this I'm sure was a response to World News Tonight getting #1 (so I understand why they felt the need to change).

This is precisely what the problem is. They took the lazy route and copied WNT's format, especially with the excessive use of breaking news for stories that are sometimes days old. Feeling the need to make changes is fine and necessary, but directly copying your competition is the easy way out, especially if you aren't taking their ideas and trying to improve upon them.

From how I understand it, CBS has been demanding an extraordinary sum to affiliates to keep CBS on their channel  (tens of millions of dollars in markets the size of 60-70, so imagine how much they wanted for Atlanta). Gray basically told CBS to F off, we're not going to pay you that much. CBS's response was 'ok that's understandable' and went to WUPA (which CBS already owned!). Good thing channel numbers don't matter much anymore (WUPA is channel 69).

I've always wondered how it's decided which station gets stuff like this first and why others have to wait so much longer.

52 minutes ago, MediaZone4K said:

Agreed. I like the second ones more except for the flying box.

 

The Brown graphics admittedly were not the best but I maintain that they were still more imaginative and lively than what we have now.

 

This is perhaps the best thing Scripps ever did graphically...

 

 

 

Technically that was RenderON specifically for WPTV. I doubt corporate had much say in that and it was before the days of standardization. But I still agree and it's one of my favorites.

I like the look (7 day is gross). Music could use more "umphf" to it I think. But it's definitely an upgrade. Wasn't the current package (Scripps v3) purposely designed to only last a few years? I thought I remember that being a point of discussion here. It was new for the sake of new, but done quickly and cheap, and not meant to last 10 years.

53 minutes ago, GodfreyGR said:

Every step and element of a set- from the first design meeting through the final light being plugged in is about money. Larger owners, like Nexstar for example, can get away with the same "set in a box" being mass produced which allows for some of the little design touches to become attainable in the budget. A much smaller company like Cowles, the owner of KHQ, has to pick and choose with the budget they likely have. They chose tech and an overall set that they likely hope will last as long as the old set did for them.

I'm willing to bet it was also designed in house. Hiring dedicated firms is not cheap. An unfortunate consequence of that is station engineers and graphic artists (if they have such a department) aren't set designers but do what they can.

A meteorologist shouldn't be calling the hub to tell them to get on or off the air at all. If there's severe weather their focus needs to be on the weather. A producer, manager, or director should be the ones calling the hub (and frankly there should be a producer in the booth during extended severe weather coverage anyway). However, given how poorly staffed and inexperienced many newsrooms are nowadays I wouldn't be surprised if some mets in some markets have had to take up that responsibility as well.

Doesn't WCAU have an infamously small studio? If they still do then there's only so much they can do with the space available.

How does Gray have any money to buy Cox?

Glad they kept the music.

Ben Pine is stepping down as chief meteorologist at WHAS this Friday. Mallory Schnell will replace him in the evenings. https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/whas11-chief-meteorologist-ben-pine-stepping-down-new-leader-mallory-schnell/417-eeb1d3e7-e7d6-46f7-850f-540ea68eb00f

It's ridiculous how THRILLED I am they FINALLY expanded the lower thirds to be 16x9.

I might have personally enjoyed Peter Alexander more as successor, but Tom is fine. I think he's clearly supposed to be NBC's version of David Muir - perennially young-looking handsome man that exudes confidence

Yet World News Tonight still has those archaic, squished 4x3-minded graphics (well, the lower thirds at least).

1 hour ago, Glimmer said:

After only six months in the job, CBS News chief Adrienne Roark (one of the masterminds behind the CBSEN revamp) is leaving to reportedly run all national news operations at Tegna

That's pretty crazy. My first thought is if it has to do with that Kamala Harris interview. Article mentions that too.

CNN has picked up on the Allen story. It's nice to see the comments and reactions are extremely negative.