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I was wondering if the music at the beginning of this video from WNBC is part of the NBC Olympic Theme, or just a piece of production music. Does anyone have an idea?

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/tokyo-summer-olympics/todd-frazier-hopes-to-finish-baseball-career-with-gold-in-tokyo/3171554/

2 hours ago, groupwfan said:

Speaking of that, ‘CAU should go back and use that 360 theme FULL FORCE (LA Groove’s not it) for the opens again…

Nah, WCAU needs something fresh at this point. The mix of 360 for the teases and LA Groove for everything else isn't cutting it for me.

22 hours ago, groupwfan said:

If WCAU gets Look S, I swear to Zeus that I hope they’d add the “NOVOCOM Squares” like they did with Look F in ‘12.

I don’t want them to modify anything in this package. They need to add some skyline shots to their opens… they have kept an nbc logo in the background for over 7 years now.

3 hours ago, dabx said:

Saw something last week that a reporter from News 12 Bronx was joining WPIX. Forgot the name. It seems that Narmeen Choudry replacement was planned way before the announcement.

It's Michelle Ross.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQHde13nOz5/?utm_medium=share_sheet

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9 minutes ago, chance said:

I just (like literally just now) heard a rejoin voiceover that I've never heard before. Here's how it went:

 

"Action News, Delaware Valley's leading news program, now continues."

 

Has anyone heard this before? 

I have not heard that before. Was it Charlie Van Dyke?

On 12/29/2020 at 5:19 PM, Roadrunner said:

I don't have much to add other than that I agree with you and Ratner would be great but since he's not getting any younger either, I don't see him as a viable long-term partner if ABC does go ahead with their much-rumored graphics overhaul, which would impact their branding in more ways than one. One of the people I've found that I like has been Jeff Collins (most notably at KTTV so wouldn't work for KABC). As for going a different direction, after CBS employed a woman for its new "Weekend News" opens, could we finally see more female VOs gain prominence in local broadcasting? (e.g. high-profile artists as Randy Thomas and Cedering Fox)

 

Also slightly unrelated, so do excuse this if it's not allowed, but I'm definitely speculating ABC will redesign the station websites (and possibly the apps as well) once they do rollout whatever changes they're rumored to make. Regardless of what happens, ABC has had the current web design since 2015 and tech has changed a lot since then. Hopefully they can continue to embrace consumer-focused innovation (even having off-hour looping newscasts akin to Fox would help).

I feel like Collins would be a decent choice. I think I remember his voice on NBC Sports Philadelphia (formerly Comcast SportsNet). I don't know if 6 could also use Jim Cutler, even though he does VOs for WPHL. Then again, WPHL's news presence isn't that huge, and they do have a 10pm newscast agreement with WPVI. 

I'm really starting to wonder who will replace Charlie Van Dyke as Voiceover for the Action News intros... 6 is starting to use his voice less and less. 

The thing is...there is no way that some of these guys that do ad reads and other not news-related promos for them can be his successor. When Van Dyke replaced Jeff Kaye, he clearly was the right choice, and had already been doing promos for the station for a while. 

I know I'm just ranting here, but with the new guys (who's names I don't even know) doing all of these promos for WPVI, the opens are going to lack a little bit. 

KABC probably won't have this much of an issue because their opens are pretty short, but WABC right up the turnpike definitely will. 

I would hope for a guy like Bill Ratner, but it also seems that the booming voices of yesterday are becoming a thing of the past, and it's sad to see. 

1 hour ago, ScottJ said:

It's to make it easier for people watching on mobile devices to be able to read the graphics better. Smaller screens need bigger graphics. 

I feel as if we are the only country following this trend though...compare our graphics to those in a country like England or Australia. Even TSN and Sportsnet in Canada have relatively smaller graphics to some of those here in the U.S.

American sports graphics continue to get bigger and bigger...

10 hours ago, jase said:

AT&T could be the perfect home for ABC & Freeform if Disney were to sale them. As far as rebuilding the sports division, that wouldn’t be necessary given that that could be controlled by Turner Sports with sports currently airing on TBS and TruTV moving over to ABC. Then, over time, picking up more sports rights.

 

Honestly, I could see Disney selling a lot of things over the next 5 years... (All things ABC (broadcast network, tv production arms, etc..) Freeform, Nat Geo, Blue Sky (do they really need  3 animation studios?), Lucasfilms (yeah..I said it) along with their stake in A+E networks and maybe some 20th Television properties.

Maybe a stretch and a fantasy, but I feel as if Hearst would be a good company to buy ABC from Disney. They would have to sell all the stations that aren't ABC affiliated probably, but they also own 20% of ESPN, which could be beneficial to ABC.