ns8401 846 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 This is probably a good example of why you don't "have some harmless fun" with your templates for elections. This ticker has 3 categories on it: Best Director Best Executive Producer Best Producer It also includes the actual last names of all the people who fill those roles at WXYZ: Worst part is they left this up for the last 40 minutes or so of their 10pm newscast... It was fixed by the 11pm with the correct information though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1811 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 The real problem here is it ran for 40 minutes without anyone noticing... I wonder if that's inserted from the Master Control Hub. That would explain a lot... Also where the hell did that monitor graphic at the end come from? Yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 846 Posted May 6, 2015 Author Share Posted May 6, 2015 The real problem here is it ran for 40 minutes without anyone noticing... I wonder if that's inserted from the Master Control Hub. That would explain a lot... Also where the hell did that monitor graphic at the end come from? Yikes. It did drop for weather, sports and ads. When their correct ticker ran at 11 at the first break it dropped half way through the break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 846 Posted May 6, 2015 Author Share Posted May 6, 2015 I think I'm going to blame creative services for that monitor graphic... The hub is better than that. They've been building a lot of their own monitor graphics for newscasts of late and have hired like 4 or 5 creative services producers with yet another coming. Lots of their monitor graphics are that busy and have that much going on in red for big stories... I got the time wrong it was two blocks of the show.. So about 12 minutes. But still... It should have been dropped right away. Someone I talked to last night said "we have a gremlin in our system". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compubit 670 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 At least it didn't have an old election or a potential future election... J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1679 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 The real problem here is it ran for 40 minutes without anyone noticing... I wonder if that's inserted from the Master Control Hub. That would explain a lot... Also where the hell did that monitor graphic at the end come from? Yikes. The real problem here is it ran for 40 minutes without anyone noticing... I wonder if that's inserted from the Master Control Hub. That would explain a lot... Also where the hell did that monitor graphic at the end come from? Yikes. A very scary graphic indeed. From recent reading I found out that the Scripps hub is more of a command and control operation - where everything is acquired and switched at the station - so the graphics would be triggered locally. That being said an operator at WRTV should have noticed it given how many times it was on the screen. Then again if the operator is doing quick glances ever so often at multiple feeds some things may not connected. Then again msnbc has had similar issues such as dummy text and on numerous occasions never updated their weather ticker (showing M-T-W forecasts when it's Thursday and should show Th-F-Sat). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvjay 6 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 As someone who has designed tickers I like the idea of using names of employees instead of fake election data but it should of been caught before hitting air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundershock MN 169 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 At least it didn't have an old election or a potential future election... J "Clinton defeats Bush"??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrtraveler01 737 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 At least it didn't have an old election or a potential future election... J I remember when KPHO was testing their ticker a few weeks before the election and it accidentally went to air. It caused conspiracy theorists to think that Obama was rigging the election. http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/21/cbs-news-affiliate-calls-2012-presidential-race-for-barack-obama-weeks-ahead-of-election/ (See comments section to see what I'm talking about) I imagine crap like that is what WXYZ is trying to avoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 920 Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I remember when KPHO was testing their ticker a few weeks before the election and it accidentally went to air. It caused conspiracy theorists to think that Obama was rigging the election. http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/21/cbs-news-affiliate-calls-2012-presidential-race-for-barack-obama-weeks-ahead-of-election/ (See comments section to see what I'm talking about) I imagine crap like that is what WXYZ is trying to avoid. It's a concern if your station feed A.P. results directly into the election ticker. A.P. sends "winners" for several weeks leading up to an election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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