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6 hours ago, mposeymil said:

John LaPorte is quitting from his post as KIRO ND after a year to head back to Milwaukee to be WDJT's Assistant ND. LaPorte was the architect of WITI's quiet rise to market leader over the past decade, so this is a huge (much needed) boost.  He will new GM join Anne Brown, another ex WITI-er

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2020/8/11/breaking-seattle-news-director-up-and-quits-after-barely-a-year-on-the-job

There’s no way he’s #2 for long. 

Hearing it was a control room meltdown. Something was recorded for the west coast.

I personally experienced the power outages in DC this afternoon but I can only imagine our friends at network have generators... 

edit: audio board died

I worked with a news anchor who battled an alcohol addiction. It's not just about someone having too much fun and getting carried away, there sometimes are much deeper issues we don't know about. My co-workers and I tried to build up a strong support network around her, but she still ended up losing her job and eventually her life due to this addiction.

When we're talking about on air talent on this website, I don't think it's a lot to ask that you try to have some kind of respect for the person - as we have no idea what they were going through when they made the decisions they did. 

It will be coming from the WUSA9 studios this weekend.

It's based off the 2019/2020 CBS network graphics package. I've recycled the same pieces for some projects.

Byron Allen isn't going to run the day to day operations of a local station group. If he acquires TEGNA, the corporate management team comes with it.

This may come as a complete shock and surprise to you all but local stations are about more than news music, sets and graphics... TEGNA has a large corporate staff to help their 60+ stations run their day to day broadcast, digital and sales ad ops. 

Not sure if it was mentioned here, but these were designed by Drive : https://www.instagram.com/drivestudio/ | http://drivestudio.com/

They were trying to emulate video game graphics which kinda makes sense. It does have a Madden feel to it, especially that Touchdown graphic.

That said, I usually love Drive's work - this one missed the mark for me. 

Not sure if this is the place for it - but if you have a few hundred dollars you can own an old sign from WESH.

26 minutes ago, rkolsen said:

One thing I thought was neat were the logos in I think the news to watch segment. Surprisingly the big O&Os weren’t featured prominently in the “pupil” of the eye - but smaller stations like KOVR and WJZ. However it appeared all the owned stations were represented along with some smaller affiliates it appeared.

4 hours ago, 24994J said:

The presence of (or lack of) an online bio is never a good indicator, especially in regards to newer employees.

They don't carry the significance they once did before social media.  Some folks at my station don't have a bio mostly because they didn't get around to writing one.

On 1/21/2019 at 9:29 AM, Georgie56 said:

Glad it looks like this package is going to be spread throughout most of the group. It looks nice.

WJLA has launched - not sure when today, but the new look is live on the 4p show.

They clearly have some bugs to sort out but the animations are a big improvement over the previous look.

The Cox Jacksonville stuff looks like a Renderon Scripps/Hothaus KTRK knockoff.

Cox doesn’t have an “agreement” with Hothaus but most of their Creative Directors are familiar with the company and use them for their graphics packages.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/109876/sinclair-handing-out-1000-bonuses

Say what you want about Sinclair, and there is plenty to say, but do you see any of the station groups out there doing this?

The word "bonus" is unheard of at most groups in this industry.

This does help... in fact, KARK in Little Rock had that same set, albeit having a "4" carved on the main news desk.

Here's info on KARK's set:

I'd like to know who designed the Gannett stations' sets, despite adding the "red white and blue" color to them.

Not sure if this is helpful, but here's some info on KPNX's old set. Not sure if they were owned by Gannett at the time, but it sure looks similar to some of the other sets from that era within that company.

The set in the round were in two varieties, WLS (with 2 Tri Vision weather/chromakey/station logo units) and the WXYZ variety (w/ 1 TriVision unit). In addition to WLS, the dual TriVision sets also were at KTVI, and KOB-TV.

And along w/ WXYZ, the set in the round w/ single TriVision units included KPIX and WKYC.

 

I am almost willing to bet that the book that noggi posted from the Broadcast Design Association may have both the WXYZ and KPIX sets described above complete with a listing of the materials used to build it...

 

KPIX's version... And WKYC's.... and KOB's Photo's The shot with the logo is the Tri Vision, and the other is the actual set

Here's a photo and background information on WXYZ's version of that set:

as well as some photos of KPIX's version of that set:

Thank you. Unrelated to this topic, but I have another book from BDA from the same time which features numerous news graphics, who designed them, and how long it took and what materials were used:

Another thing I need to digitize if I ever get the time...

This topic reminds me of a great book I found in my office when I took over as Art Director at a station on the West Coast -- it was from the Broadcast Design Association, dated June 1980. It listed photos and construction information on some local news sets built around that time. I've been meaning to scan this book in to share it with you guys, I know you'd find it interesting. A lot of sets back then were actually designed and fabricated in-house.

Forgive the quality of these photos I snapped with my phone from the book - need to go scrounge up a scanner:

Here's a list of all the sets included in the book: