c.alexbrown 8 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Watching WCNC NBC Charlotte News now - It actually looks so much better than the mess that they had before. I uploaded the open (recorded from my phone) : Ahhh... I see. Ive got a digital recording version of it. Uploading in 1080. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leavellebrett 85 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 That brand...Yikes. Can we try to make it any longer? How about Carolina's Newschannel WCNC NBC 36 Charlotte News? Just stick with WCNC News, and be done with it. You forgot the 6. You can't forget about those cable viewers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.alexbrown 8 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 You forgot the 6. You can't forget about those cable viewers! And don't forget about all TWC's weird new numbers too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.alexbrown 8 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Not a fan of the name and VO.... It's too long and it doesn't flow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevCor 344 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 So, they're gonna use the Gannett building blocks for their syndicated programs too? Didn't know Judge Judy was a part of the team there. On the bright side... it DOES show improvement over their previous graphics. And that'd be the first time I've seen the bug animation not show the website next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLT-DCA-ORF-PTI 86 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Forgive me, I do not know enough music packages, but is this just a cut of This is Home or is there another signature in it? Either way, this is probably the best version of TIH I've heard so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevCor 344 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Forgive me, I do not know enough music packages, but is this just a cut of This is Home or is there another signature in it? Either way, this is probably the best version of TIH I've heard so far. The base of it is TiH, but it *almost* sounds custom mixed with extra hits of the "This is Home" chords. EDIT: That close though...that was something not in the TiH I've heard on the NMSA website... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLT-DCA-ORF-PTI 86 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 The base of it is TiH, but it *almost* sounds custom mixed with extra hits of the "This is Home" chords. EDIT: That close though...that was something not in the TiH I've heard on the NMSA website... Lol I was just about to say that - very interesting, but kept the same music for the copyright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.alexbrown 8 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 The building blocks of the gannett look tie into their studio with the block plexiglass. I'm telling you.... It would be awesome if they'd turn back on the lights and switch it with the rundown... blue lights for news, yellow for weather, green for money, etc. Here is the opening video in HD... It's still processing the HD I believe, but it's up!: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amtrak8 5 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Oh, just a heads up. If you upload anything from KTVB in Boise, they will have it pulled for copyright. Apparently they don't like people to post and/or like their stuff to YouTube. So, just a warning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLTNewsWatch 4 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 You can find a lot of screenshots of the graphics on my twitter page, https://twitter.com/cltnewswatch. I think the new graphics look really nice. The logo says WCNC Charlotte, but they are still calling themselves NBC Charlotte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevCor 344 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 The building blocks of the gannett look tie into their studio with the block plexiglass. I'm telling you.... It would be awesome if they'd turn back on the lights and switch it with the rundown... blue lights for news, yellow for weather, green for money, etc. Here is the opening video in HD... It's still processing the HD I believe, but it's up!: It is probably the best ex-Belo station to have their graphic "fit" their studio look, IMO They're gonna have to work on that name. "WCNC News" would work just fine, but I think since they've built that "NBC Charlotte" name/brand (if you search for WCNC on Facebook, it "redirects to NBC Charlotte), they don't want to get rid of the ties they have with it. But again, Deathstar PROBABLY wanted to lessen the O&O feel that the name held, so they forced those call letters in there in front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLTNewsWatch 4 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I'm telling you.... It would be awesome if they'd turn back on the lights and switch it with the rundown... blue lights for news, yellow for weather, green for money, etc. I think that could be distracting for some, if the studio itself was constantly changing colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.alexbrown 8 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 http://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?/topic/12313-wcnc-rebranded-to-nbc-charlotte-news/ The station has been confused at least since 2008 on branding. But the rebrand sorta of makes sense considering they are next to the NBC News Channel off of the Billy Graham Parkway. I would also say that WCNC is literally the red headed step child of Belo's group. FINALLY! WCNC IS NO LONGER A RED HEADED STEP CHILD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.alexbrown 8 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I think that could be distracting for some, if the studio itself was constantly changing colors. yeah.. but I mean if you looked at the line-up, they do group the stories together... so its not like it would be blue - green - blue - purple. They do keep the stories somewhat closer together. I honestly don't care... just turn back on the lights please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leavellebrett 85 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 The way the voiceover sounds, it's almost like "WCNC" is not a part of the branding at all. It sounds like they're just boasting the station calls and then saying that it's time for "NBC Charlotte News" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevCor 344 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 http://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?/topic/12313-wcnc-rebranded-to-nbc-charlotte-news/ FINALLY! WCNC IS NO LONGER A RED HEADED STEP CHILD! and it appears they might be ahead of some others, if they are getting custom This is Home themes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swillh2k2 203 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 and it appears they might be ahead of some others, if they are getting custom This is Home themes... It's not custom...it's just a different cut of the open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.alexbrown 8 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 It's not custom...it's just a different cut of the open. With the tower, wcnc loved cutting up the close version of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.alexbrown 8 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 http://www.tvnewscheck.com/marketshare/2014/07/17/behind-the-doors-of-local-tv-consolidation-in-charlotte/ Here's an interesting article about tv consolidation, and wcnc is in the forefront of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevCor 344 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 http://www.tvnewscheck.com/marketshare/2014/07/17/behind-the-doors-of-local-tv-consolidation-in-charlotte/ Here's an interesting article about tv consolidation, and wcnc is in the forefront of it. I didn't know that the football helmet story was group-wide -- WVEC did their story in April. But I can see how WCNC and the other single-outlet stations (WHAS, WVEC) would benefit from the greater good of Gannett. They lacked the big power of being clustered like Texas and the Northwest stations. You could tell, not with WVEC so much, but looking at WHAS and WCNC, they were so far out of Daddy Belo's pockets, it was painful to see. Maybe some improvements will come in the total product of these stations. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevCor 344 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 WFAA is apparently being prepped for the Presto web layout -- their content staging subdomain is live: http://ux.wfaa.com It looks like they copied KVUE's site over to the WFAA domain, because all the content links back to KVUE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbs2newengland 71 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 http://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?/topic/12313-wcnc-rebranded-to-nbc-charlotte-news/ FINALLY! WCNC IS NO LONGER A RED HEADED STEP CHILD! That's good news. However the NBC Charlotte to me was a little weird, because there low intelligent people who would probably affiliate WCNC as the NBC Network. I know people who get confused what's local and what's network. WVIT up in CT is the same thing (and I thought most of their systems had WVIT on 30.) Network + Market needs something in the middle - like a channel #. Do you like eating a sandwich without anything inside? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3464 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 From the clips I've seen thus far, i'm impreseed. It's a major improvement over the previous package, and even the Belo graphics that preceded them. I like how they go back and forth on the bug from WCNC to CHARLOTTE, but my only critique is that the peacock is slightly off between the two graphics; they don't line up. It's a breath of fresh air that brings them on a higher level with WBTV and WSOC, and with their new look, really ties in with their set. WBTV and WSOC look very cheap in comparison with their sets (and WSOC's aging graphics). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbs4dallas 17 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 WFAA is apparently being prepped for the Presto web layout -- their content staging subdomain is live: http://ux.wfaa.com It looks like they copied KVUE's site over to the WFAA domain, because all the content links back to KVUE. I have this crazy feeling that WFAA is going to get a new logo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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