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5 hours ago, 24994J said:

 

If an average joe doesn't pay attention, they don't know what WABC is.

 

 

Stand out more among who? Nobody but us would be watching multiple ABC O&Os at once, and everything outside of the opens are similar enough to the old look that those same average joes won't really notice, so nobody should be confusing them with any of their LA competitors.

 

As for the shade of blue, that's just what it is. Opportunities to customize the package are based on literally any other accent element that isn't the primary blue pieces. Look at the CBS package, the in-show branded bugs have been seen in blue, red, orange, green, gold, black, and even purple, but the standard lower third doesn't change. Same thing for ABC, but they're blue.

All of this.  I'm not seeing why it matters how different stations in different markets having the same general look and feel is an issue. Viewers aren't watching out of market news. And for the fraction of a fraction of people who travel to the other city and happen to watch the news there, that has no negative impact. 

20 hours ago, T.L. Hughes said:

Paramount and WBD should have only sold a combined 33% of their stakes in The CW to Nexstar, rather than giving up all but 25% of the network.

They had good business reasons for doing so. The CW served its purpose and as the respective companies went through their own changes (good, bad and otherwise), it became apparent the that purpose was not a priority. That's ok, priorities change. If Nester was there to pony up the price and get them out of managing a business that didn't really fit their strategic plans, good for them. 

13 hours ago, JTT said:

Back when NBC had the rights to the NBA in 2002, why would they not offer more $ to keep NBA than losing it.  They had a cable channel with cnbc & bravo TV back then.  They could have put games on cable as well as on NBC and charge customers back then to watch the games.  

The world is different 20+ years later. Businesses change. Owners change. Executives change. Budgets change. 

On 5/21/2024 at 9:52 PM, Rusty Muck said:

 

 

So yeah, linear television is in a very bad state right now, and the last thing the affiliates need is for the networks to give up on them, because they have no Plan B. And contrary to the sentiments of a few people in this fandom, MOAR NEWS is not, I repeat NOT, an acceptable Plan B.

Stipulated that this is not currently on the table, but even if the time comes at some future period TBD, there is no other viable option. Consumers have gone where they've gone. Assuming you can't make a go of "traditional" fare in the 10 pm hour, you either program it with something less costly and perhaps more topical, or you throw in the towel on the time. I know we love to get down on people for lack of creativity and whatnot, but sometimes that's not the issue. The issue is the world evolves and old models sometimes need to give way. 

Since it's almost inevitable the Leno experiment would be brought up in that context, that failure was also a set of circumstances unique to that time and that program, on that network. It doesn't automatically mean anything in the general world of late-night-esque shows can't work when that day comes, any more than the flameout of countless 10 pm dramas over the decades meant every drama airing at 10 pm was going to be a failure. 

In a world in which linear TV is declining, wringing revenue from news is a way to make something out of the inevitable. It won't work for everyone, and there may be various flexible options if and when the time comes, but for some, it will be a path to keep the lights on a little bit longer. 

22 hours ago, Vlad said:

Here are some more clips from FATV, posted on YouTube. 

 

The graphics are stellar, as expected, but the only gripe I have is just the music.. I'm grieving the loss of the NG Eyewitness News music, their adoption of the WABC theme and signature is just so unsettling for me I don't know why. I feel like it doesn't fit for them, because the theme is so New York and its been used here for all of these years (20+ years) doesn't seem right for KABC to adopt it. The graphics are awesome, as we all know, but the only thing for me is the theme and music. It's essentially a carbon copy of WABC. The Series 4 theme just theme doesn't suit LA. Did anyone see the morning show? Is it the same Series 4 cut and bumper as well? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's WABC's so we can compare. Notice how WABC's opening cut is a bit different. Same theme but different variation. 

 

 

 

 

 

Glad to see there are still actual news briefs in those cut-ins. WPVI could try emulating their sister to the north and, I don't know....put some news into the news cut-in. They barely do a weather and traffic update, not even as in-depth as what's seen here, and except in the rarest of circumstances, no actual news headlines whatsoever. 

On 5/21/2024 at 3:08 PM, JTT said:

I wonder why with all the stations, the main 2 colors that I see during their newscast are blue and white with the graphics.  Why is that?

Seems like that's the point of the theme. If that's the brand they want and they want it (mostly) uniform, that's the reason. 

When it does run, that slight misalignment gets my OCD going. But the average person is not going to notice. I also don't think they need to do quite as much with the animations in the top of the newscasts. The three segments of the bar representing the three stories before the "big story" is fine, but it doesn't need to animate out and then back in with each teaser. 

This may be an interesting business story to see how it plays out. The Talk was kind of little more than wallpaper by the time the axe fell. But can a ground-up drama be enough of a profit source for an organization that isn't exactly rolling in dough? Does having those production partners change the financial calculus? How long or short of a leash does the show get to get a foothold? 

Whatever the true story, wherever it falls, it has the hallmarks of a protracted legal process. What precipitated it....well, we'll likely never know. Such is life.

The fact that no one pulled the Sports Sunday promos that show and name her is amusing, but hey, things slip through.