Holy Graphics Knockoff Batman!!

[Yankees4life 561]

KREN-TV had this Masterclass in the early 2000s

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/f/f8/KREN_(2000-2002).PNG/revision/latest

Edited January 1, 2021 by Yankees4life

[Yankees4life 561]

What in the blue hell, WLTF? This is a bad knockoff of the O&Os graphics 

 

 

Edited March 15, 2021 by 24994J
Corrected the call letters

[RGSJenkins 435]

WPVI knockoff on SNL from 2019: 

 

[Yankees4life 561]

Looks like NTV Canada is took the EWN font from WABC

 

 

[JosephH1998 23]

It seems like the 1998 KLAX graphics is a knockoff on the Hearst-Argyle camera mandate (Hearst is the second largest owner of ABC stations behind Allbritton).

 

[tyrannical bastard 4018]

What in the Edward Willis Scripps is this... WDTV?

 

[SteveKendall 30]

Is WDTV pining to be an ABC affiliate?

It's still better than the WEWS logo.

[LexTVandRadio 418]

On 7/15/2021 at 9:04 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

What in the Edward Willis Scripps is this... WDTV?

 

Ha. A very directional news station. North central West Virginia. 

[tyrannical bastard 4018]

2 hours ago, LexTVandRadio said:

Ha. A very directional news station. North central West Virginia. 

It just looks so....off.  Especially how the top of the "5" overlaps the circle.

 

Is Morgantown still part of the Pittsburgh market?  I'm sure that's an area the Clarksburg/Fairmont/Weston stations want to themselves.

[compubit 674]

Can’t imaging working in their Southeast bureau:

 

“Reporting from the Southeastern bureau of North Central West Virginia’s News Station, I’m…”

[tw-804 193]

Along with their new logo, they're using the blue-and-white version of WTVY's graphics just like WHSV.

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

10 minutes ago, tw-804 said:

Along with their new logo, they're using the blue-and-white version of WTVY's graphics just like WHSV.

Weird... because they are using their old logo on their website.

 

 

 

[Payton39 26]

Yeah, that's an oddly specific description of their area. Also, I feel like the strokeweight of the Circle 5 logo is different at 0:10 and 0:36. Maybe my eyes fail me, though.

[froyo49 230]

For some reason, I'm getting low-rent WSVN vibes. The overly edited headline tease, the gaudy 3D animations, the presenters introducing themselves before the main title sequence, the guy pointing at the camera (that's how you know he's serious), and even the "news station" branding and circle logo. I may just be overthinking it though.

[tyrannical bastard 4018]

2 hours ago, froyo49 said:

For some reason, I'm getting low-rent WSVN vibes. The overly edited headline tease, the gaudy 3D animations, the presenters introducing themselves before the main title sequence, the guy pointing at the camera (that's how you know he's serious), and even the "news station" branding and circle logo. I may just be overthinking it though.

Agreed.  Too much gratuitous use of 3D.  Without the cheesy transitions and that logo, it may look halfway decent.

 

Some small markets just need to act their size and not look more out of place by ripping off a look and feel that is NOT anything close to what could pass off as something original and more authentic to the area.

Edited July 25, 2021 by tyrannical bastard

[DucNguyen0131 49]

WESH's "NewsCenter 2" graphics in the 1970s were a knockoff of the O&O graphics used by WNBC in New York, WMAQ in Chicago and WRC in Washington, D.C., despite in all fact, being that it was not an O&O.

 

[KnoxvilleTVFan 286]

I am bumping this thread, because I want to mention something I came across. WVLT-TV in Knoxville, back in 2001, used what may be a knock-off of the Hearst-Argyle station graphics package.

You can view the WVLT open at 37:09.
 

 

Edited April 22, 2022 by KnoxvilleTVFan

[Viper550 292]

 

Only inevitable we'd get a Bally knockoff at some point.

[Jared DiCarlo 53]

There’s a shameless ripoff of WNYT/KMOV’s intro near the end of this video:

 

[tyrannical bastard 4018]

On 11/8/2022 at 6:25 AM, Jared DiCarlo said:

There’s a shameless ripoff of WNYT/KMOV’s intro near the end of this video:

 

More of a hackjob than a ripoff.  Basically using another package and trying to localilze it, with bad results.

WTRF used this package too.  I'd post the video from YouTube, but it appears to have been taken down.  Their opens looked good but they had one that was clearly "keyed over" like these.

 

[kfc513 238]

I found a ripoff of the 2015 KCTV graphics...

 

https://www.behance.net/gallery/161927613/NEWS-TITLE-SUCH-TV-DL-STUDIO

https://www.behance.net/gallery/161925491/HEADLINES-SUCH-TV-DL-STUDIO

https://www.behance.net/gallery/161923247/NEWS-ALERT-SUCH-TV-DL-STUDIO

 

   

 

   

Edited February 21, 2023 by kfc513
Added side-by-side comparisons

[Yankees4life 561]

This from WOLO seems like a MG ripoff

 

https://youtu.be/tOkDEFphOyg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 22, 2023 by Yankees4life

[Viper550 292]

 

CCHA college hockey bringing us a very close recreation of Sportsnet's 2014-2021 (though besides the fonts/colors, the main difference is that SN put the scores adjacent to each other instead of like this)

[newsn8te 202]

Downloaded a game I thought was kind of interesting from an ad on TikTok (warning the game sucks lol). The game started with a fake newscast. 
 

Can you tell where their inspiration came from? 

 

Edited May 20, 2023 by HoosierNewsie

[WRNK 34]

They really did a good job though.