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WCPO launched the new graphics today at noon.

I guess "Shop Scripps" already went live... but not as a revival of "Ion Shop," but rather as one of those paid steals-and-deals segments during newscasts. Saw one today during WCPO's 4PM newscast.

On election night 2024, they pre-empted NewsNation's coverage on their CW affiliates in favor of Sinclair's own election night coverage from the National News Desk: At this point, I'm surprised Nexstar isn't purging network branding from their stations' logos (excluding CW stations, of course) like Gray was doing.

KCCI now has the new graphics. WAPT and WJCL appear to be the two remaining holdouts.

Allen Media Group somehow had the budget to (at least) consult with, of all design agencies, Vivid Zero/Defiant to come up with some drafts of a standardized look for its stations. There was a (now locked) thread on here a while ago where someone claimed that Allen stations would be getting a mandated look, and these could possibly be the package in question. These screenshots came from Defiant's most recent studio reel of news graphics.

The Paramount-Skydance merger has closed yesterday. The combined company is now called "Paramount Skydance Corporation" though its consumer-facing name will still just be "Paramount (A Skydance Corporation)" Their logo is officially the same one as Paramount Global with a Skydance byline appended to it.

Is Hearst still moving forward with this supposed new look? It's been nearly a year since it debuted in Fort Myers, yet it has never been rolled out beyond WBBH/WZVN...

You'd be on the mark because they've already got a case study up... https://defiantla.com/work/scripps-news-group-rebrand/

Even then, Sinclair's glass/curves look didn't make it to all of their stations before it got replaced.

Where did you find these at?

And there's a typo in the announcement....

Looks like Hearst partnered with Vivid Zero on the new diagrid look. Their 2025 studio reel contains brief clip of what appears to be WCVB's version of the open at the 0:32 second mark. https://www.facebook.com/100057501037117/videos/1278638849916517/

Came across this on Logopedia: Los Angeles area station KVME's 2012 ripoff of the late '90s/early '00s Hearst-Argyle camera graphics (specifically, the station ID)

Apparently, TheGrio's affiliate base has been dropping like flies, and according to someone over on RadioDiscussions, it might be shutting down altogether (is there any official confirmation of this?).

More stations have picked up these new opens.....