Georgie56 3350 Posted March 10, 2019 Posted March 10, 2019 22 minutes ago, bhratbrat said: Promo for the cubs final season I like how they didn't explicitly mention it in the promo. 1
alex979 119 Posted March 10, 2019 Posted March 10, 2019 A really nice upgrade to the score bug this year. Boxes are shaded for the team colors and logos added too, kinda reminiscent of CBS. Amazing how much better this looks than last year.
Georgie56 3350 Posted March 10, 2019 Posted March 10, 2019 56 minutes ago, alex979 said: A really nice upgrade to the score bug this year. Boxes are shaded for the team colors and logos added too, kinda reminiscent of CBS. Amazing how much better this looks than last year. That looks so much better. Kind of a worthless upgrade, though, considering this is the final season of sports on WGN.
Spring Rubber 724 Posted April 14, 2019 Posted April 14, 2019 And today we have an artificial city backdrop on WGN. Not sure if their camera is down or what. Normally they'd be eager to show a live shot of the snowstorm out there.
Spring Rubber 724 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 Has WGN covered this tornado warning at all? Every other station in the market has broken in for wall to wall coverage, but it looks like WGN has committed to stay with Cubs coverage without so much as a double box live report from the weather center as they've done in years past.
dman748 1258 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 31 minutes ago, Spring Rubber said: Has WGN covered this tornado warning at all? Every other station in the market has broken in for wall to wall coverage, but it looks like WGN has committed to stay with Cubs coverage without so much as a double box live report from the weather center as they've done in years past. Is the Cubs game in a Rain Delay?
Spring Rubber 724 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 9 minutes ago, oknewsguy said: Is the Cubs game in a Rain Delay? No, they're playing in Houston.
dman748 1258 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 2 minutes ago, Spring Rubber said: No, they're playing in Houston. So apparently, somebody in the Control Room was just being lazy today
24994J 5676 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 (edited) Whether or not it's enough can be debated, but they had their storm ticker up nearly the entire time, just like FOX32 the other overnight. Edited May 27, 2019 by 24994J 2
Spring Rubber 724 Posted May 27, 2019 Posted May 27, 2019 (edited) Tornado confirmed on the ground near Dyer, and WGN is in postgame commercials with no ticker over the commercials. Ticker didn't come up until the postgame show came back on. And despite the urgent situation, they are still continuing the postgame show like nothing ever happened because the car company with the blue oval is paying them to do so. Edited May 27, 2019 by Spring Rubber 1
doublejman69 124 Posted May 28, 2019 Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, Spring Rubber said: Has WGN covered this tornado warning at all? Every other station in the market has broken in for wall to wall coverage, but it looks like WGN has committed to stay with Cubs coverage without so much as a double box live report from the weather center as they've done in years past. What happens when you go to a double box is that you pissing off the people that want to watch the game with a bunch of "weather junk" and you make the people that need the weather info mad because all the maps are to small to read, so no one is happy. There were 4 other tv stations giving out the same weather information, sometimes the right programming strategy is not to break into programming and just run weather ticker on the bottom of the screen. Edited May 28, 2019 by doublejman69
Webovision 202 Posted May 28, 2019 Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) no doubt about it... classic management interference right there... sports broadcasts bring in the big bucks... don't want to piss off a client with your tornado warning ticker covering their phone number... and the postgame sponsor paid for the whole show... not the part covered up by some weather guy with his sleeves rolled up... WGN has only so many games left to milk sweet ad revenue from... and of course... nobody wants to deal with angry cubbies fans... drunkenly hooting and hollering to the poor assignment desk about how distracting the weather double box is... Edited May 28, 2019 by Webovision
Georgie56 3350 Posted May 28, 2019 Posted May 28, 2019 I remember one Cubs game many years ago they cut away from to go to Skilling because of severe weather.
Georgie56 3350 Posted June 2, 2019 Posted June 2, 2019 (edited) Dan Roan is doing play-by-play for today's Cubs-Cardinals game. Never seen him in this role before. This should be interesting. Edited June 2, 2019 by Georgie56 1
Jase 1090 Posted June 2, 2019 Posted June 2, 2019 1 hour ago, Georgie56 said: Dan Roan is doing play-by-play for today's Cubs-Cardinals game. Never seen him in this role before. This should be interesting. He is considered a substitute broadcaster (has been since the 80s) and I believe can only sub on games that air on WGN.
24994J 5676 Posted June 7, 2019 Posted June 7, 2019 Oh. My. God. It's back...with a real announcement at the end. 1
alex979 119 Posted June 11, 2019 Posted June 11, 2019 Over two years later, the old news set lives again. 2
Georgie56 3350 Posted June 11, 2019 Posted June 11, 2019 (edited) 26 minutes ago, alex979 said: Over two years later, the old news set lives again. So CLTV isn't being treated as an afterthought after all. Looks like the background builds off the diamond motif WGN uses outside of news. Edited June 11, 2019 by Georgie56
24994J 5676 Posted June 11, 2019 Posted June 11, 2019 I wonder if it's still set up in the Man of the People studio? I guess it has to be, right?
Spring Rubber 724 Posted June 12, 2019 Posted June 12, 2019 I watched a little bit of the 7pm CLTV newscast tonight. Is was much of the usual CLTV fare with just solo tight shots of the lone anchor, and all you could see was the duratran. I think they did one slightly zoomed out shot late in the newscast where you could see a bit of the shelf unit in the background. I have to wonder if they're going to make broader use of the set or if this was just a way to get the show out of the newsroom. I hope they do something with it, otherwise just a tiny flashcam setup would have achieved the same effect.
24994J 5676 Posted June 18, 2019 Posted June 18, 2019 (edited) Kind of a interesting question addressed here. Just how traumatizing can TV news reporting be for a journalist's mental well-being? In Marcella Raymond's case, very. https://www.robertfeder.com/2019/06/18/wgn-reporter-says-job-gave-ptsd/ Edited June 18, 2019 by 24994J 2
Spring Rubber 724 Posted June 18, 2019 Posted June 18, 2019 5 hours ago, 24994J said: Kind of a interesting question addressed here. Just how traumatizing can TV news reporting be for a journalist's mental well-being? In Marcella Raymond's case, very. https://www.robertfeder.com/2019/06/18/wgn-reporter-says-job-gave-ptsd/ Wow, the toils of being a news reporter in a city full of tragedy. Something I've never even thought about before.
TheRolyPoly 2660 Posted June 19, 2019 Posted June 19, 2019 11 hours ago, 24994J said: Kind of a interesting question addressed here. Just how traumatizing can TV news reporting be for a journalist's mental well-being? In Marcella Raymond's case, very. https://www.robertfeder.com/2019/06/18/wgn-reporter-says-job-gave-ptsd/ I love Marcella. Been a fan of her's for a long time. Not surprised she's going through this but surprised that many more haven't admitted this yet because this job would suck the fun out of everybody when all your covering is hard news and crime. I feel so bad for her as I've admired her for a long time now.
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