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21 minutes ago, kfc513 said:

I just found this on NewscastStudio...

 

https://www.newscaststudio.com/2019/12/04/cbs-oo-new-graphics-rollout/

really liking the flattened out eye transitions that are reminiscent of the current ones, if this is evidence of anything big they're working on group-wide i hope they keep those kinda design cues!

the current package is really nice and i like the idea of them just. freshening up 'n modernizing some of the concepts of it tbh.

12 minutes ago, ns8401 said:

I’m praying this is sarcasm...

heh, it is, don't worry i forget that kinda stuff doesn't come off too well in text...

3 minutes ago, Journalist said:

Calling news music packages "production music" and saying television design "peaked" because we don't like it is exactly the level headed analysis I would expect from TVNT.

 

you'll change your mind once i finish writing my essay about how the stretched helvetica WJZ graphics were the pinnacle of creativity in graphic design for broadcast media and literally everything that came after it is depressing and awful and on par with (gasp!) the WKYC rebrand!!!

i’m not going to make ANY friends here, but i’m gonna be the one to say it. well, i’ve already said it on the discord, but still - 

the package is growing on me. i kinda like it! i wish that it had a bit more motion to it (like the KABC package mentioned earlier) and fonts that have more of a presence but honestly? i see what they’re going for and i can kinda dig it. 

it definitely won’t be as flexible with existing station branding like the Renderon package is but... sometimes it feels like i’m the only one who wants to give this one a chance it took time for the tegna package to get appreciation for what it was too so...

2 hours ago, Yankees4life said:

Talk about an outdated theme and a lazy open to boot

 

honest question, is this attempting to look like the Tribune (or. uh,  Nexstar) CBS graphics?

2 hours ago, MikePulse said:

World News Tonight Sunday with Sam Donaldson, followed by WLS’s Eyewitness News. 8/31/80

holy crap, that renault ad at 24 minutes!!! between this and the president talkin about them, i feel like fate is gonna bring me a renault in the very near future...

also, you couldn't get away with larry's "newscastery" hair today. pure late 70s/early 80s aesthetic.

not sure if this would go here or in one of the international threads (let me know if it's in the wrong place, didn't see an international knockoff thread), but Vizion Plus's news open is a blatant knockoff of ITV's offerings. i'm also pretty sure they're tryin to go for an ITV thing with the set and are... failing, to say the least. seems to be some kind of weird mix of the regular ITV news intros with elements from the News at Ten open.

here's Vizion Plus Lajme -

 
and here's ITV -

speaking of ITV, here's Granada attempting to copy one of the 90s hearst looks. feels like they tried to make the arrowed G logo work kinda like the WCVB numeral but... it just doesn't work too well imho -

9 hours ago, LTSC1980 said:

From Greenwood....

i can't speak for their product but. whewwwww, blatantly obvious template opens feel so damn cheap to me. always offputting to see the kinda AE template i can buy for $50 on broadcast television. otherwise it's not *that* bad for the market size imo.

they've got a history of... pretty bad opens tho.
 

 

not much to say about this one and I know I'm at the tail end of the acceptable years for classic video but i'm just surprised that WCIA was using the old WBBM graphics in 2007. who else was usin these? also really vibin with the enforcer cut in this close.

we finally have nexstar endboards showin up in chicago and it'll always feel weird to me bc i associate seein those with being downstate, lol.

3 hours ago, Info Junkie said:

How about liking WBRE instead of KGAN?

Seriously, this is once again — my longest video ever made, and also the longest update I’ve done to a news open video.

that one & only open, i feel like i’ve seen that open before on another station. popular aesthetic for the time or was it syndicated?

also, semi offtopic but is it just me or do some of the older opens in this video seem high framerate? these upscaled in any way or is my phone just tricking my head?