NewsMaster 226 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 here's WFFT's open with the new logo. Ick. That's pretty bad. The worst part about it is that this is Heartland's first go-around at re-branding a station and this could roll out to their other stations. For a group that I was fascinated to see what they would be like, this is extremely disappointing. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2415 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 here's WFFT's open with the new logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id=c4JBQYP3d-0;t=0 I love Heartland Media but this makes me want to hate them, even though I don't want to. Using very old Nexstar graphics with cheap logo making, that sucks. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1684 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 I can’t get over how ugly those handheld prompter controllers that TEGNA and FOX O&Os use. They’re literally all I can look at whenever I see them in use. You’d think due to their size they could motivate Autoscript to make a more discrete product. And the gripping motion. It’s like they are squeezing a stress ball. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabbleship 429 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Ick. That's pretty bad. The worst part about it is that this is Heartland's first go-around at re-branding a station and this could roll out to their other stations. For a group that I was fascinated to see what they would be like, this is extremely disappointing. Didn't they rebrand WKTV or at least do a total graphic overhaul once they came in and upgraded them to HD? 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 829 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 WRAL GM's Steven Hammel is set to retire http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wral-general-manager-retires-from-broadcasting/201596 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198468 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 915 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Longtime WZZM morning anchor Lauren Stanton is stepping down after 18 years to pursue her & husband's business venture... http://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/morning-features/morning-news-anchor-lauren-stanton-stepping-down-from-wzzm-13/69-527153139 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 There's a massive article in El Nuevo Herald (Miami) on Spanish-language TV, and hoo boy, what's going on over there (besides a well out of date Telemundo logo)? "Tears, fears, frustration, intrigue and painful goodbyes. They're the ingredients of any good telenovela. But on Friday, those feelings jumped from the world of fiction and flooded their creators, the employees of America's main Hispanic television networks. Only a few don't fear for the future of their jobs. Between young bilingual Hispanics moving toward a la carte TV in English and the hostility of Donald Trump to immigrants bringing the addition of new audiences to a halt, uncertainty reigns in this fragile industry." At Telemundo, even with new studios about to open, the issue is layoffs at Telemundo Studios, where more than 100 people lost their jobs in technical positions and the facility "felt like a funeral home". Apparently the latter is the result of an increasing shift toward production in Colombia and Mexico spurred by high executive production costs. At Univision, the problems have been more widely reported: Falco's resignation, the abruptly canceled IPO, and a series of reassignments of other top Univision executives to positions at Televisa. Morale at UCI is low given that investors and the company's financial advisors want to see cost cuts on the order of $200 million. 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
C Block 1566 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Ick. That's pretty bad. The worst part about it is that this is Heartland's first go-around at re-branding a station and this could roll out to their other stations. For a group that I was fascinated to see what they would be like, this is extremely disappointing. Heartland doesn't really have much design foresight aside from passing down some warmed over graphics packages from big markets that looked passable 10 years ago. They're hoping that a team of consultants and "late breaking news" will be enough to solve any branding problems in their markets. 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelicanGuy 117 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 The Times-Picayune has an article of photos from New Orleans' 70 years of broadcasting (yes, this year is WDSU's 70th anniversary). http://www.nola.com/expo/erry-2018/03/c850586fe7/new_orleans_on_the_air_40_phot.html#incart_river_index Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatSowislander 52 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Like her former co-anchor Paul Piaskoski, who's apparently pursing a law career via his Linkedin, Michele McCormack has found a career after TV, and has joined the Hunger Task Force as a manger. I hope they both enjoy life after the screen, especially at WDJT...they deserve it. Just ask KKTV's Brian Bledsoe on how life's after 58's been going after a decade out of there, I bet Paul and Michele will have a similar positive experience. https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2018/03/09/former-wdjt-tv-anchor-reporter-michele-mccormack-joins-hunger-task-force/399222002/ Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
channel2 979 Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Heartland doesn't really have much design foresight aside from passing down some warmed over graphics packages from big markets that looked passable 10 years ago. They're hoping that a team of consultants and "late breaking news" will be enough to solve any branding problems in their markets. I feel like local TV design in general is kind of circling the drain. Between standardization sucking the creativity out of everything (though somehow the new Hearst graphics are amazing) and the fact that the trend towards flat design has inspired everything to look pretty bland or similar, I am not sure what stations ought to do. At least the new TEGNA graphics have some inspired color choices though. 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 I'm staying in Atlanta tonight and was watching the local newscasts. It seems CBS46 has shortened their opens, I'll try to get some screen grabs later tonight. They phased the "Local. Real. Everywhere." part out. The v/o now goes "CBS46 News at _____ starts now." The open also abruptly froze on the "starts now" titlecard, it looks cheap. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathannah 2429 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Like her former co-anchor Paul Piaskoski, who's apparently pursing a law career via his Linkedin, Michele McCormack has found a career after TV, and has joined the Hunger Task Force as a manger. WDJT and the HTF do an on-air Thanksgiving give-a-thon...I wonder how that may go this year (they just did a March Madness-themed food drive but Michelle didn't appear there). Hopefully by then everything will be bygones between everyone. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I feel like local TV design in general is kind of circling the drain. Between standardization sucking the creativity out of everything (though somehow the new Hearst graphics are amazing) and the fact that the trend towards flat design has inspired everything to look pretty bland or similar, I am not sure what stations ought to do. At least the new TEGNA graphics have some inspired color choices though. It's kind of hard when the market for broadcast motion design specific to TV news has become so concentrated among large clients that have at times brought the task in-house. ——— Meanwhile, in a rare dispatch from sort-of-Mexico, sort-of-not... K26KJ-D (El Paso)'s third digital subchannel was leased last year to a local TV station out of the state capital of Chihuahua, Canal 28 (XHABC-TDT). It was a move that allowed this station to get broadcast coverage in the Juárez-El Paso area. They're beginning program production in Juárez soon as well including local news and information. Because "Canal 25.3" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, though, the station system (there's also a direct repeater in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc) is using a different name, both in Juárez generally and to a lesser extent in Chihuahua Capital... ABC Televisión. Now, the logo of ABC Televisión will not make you think of the alphabet network. It is not the shameful ripoff of ABC Radio, another unrelated venture whose logo should be the subject of a trademark dispute: But still, calling yourself ABC in a border market? I get it, the audiences are kind of differentiated, and it'd be hard to mistake this for KVIA, but come on! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2415 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 It's kind of hard when the market for broadcast motion design specific to TV news has become so concentrated among large clients that have at times brought the task in-house. ——— Meanwhile, in a rare dispatch from sort-of-Mexico, sort-of-not... K26KJ-D (El Paso)'s third digital subchannel was leased last year to a local TV station out of the state capital of Chihuahua, Canal 28 (XHABC-TDT). It was a move that allowed this station to get broadcast coverage in the Juárez-El Paso area. They're beginning program production in Juárez soon as well including local news and information. Because "Canal 25.3" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, though, the station system (there's also a direct repeater in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc) is using a different name, both in Juárez generally and to a lesser extent in Chihuahua Capital... ABC Televisión. Now, the logo of ABC Televisión will not make you think of the alphabet network. It is not the shameful ripoff of ABC Radio, another unrelated venture whose logo should be the subject of a trademark dispute: But still, calling yourself ABC in a border market? I get it, the audiences are kind of differentiated, and it'd be hard to mistake this for KVIA, but come on! ABC 7 and ABC 7-60 AM. Yeah. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 ABC 7 and ABC 7-60 AM. Yeah. Worth noting: 760 AM is in Mexico City and they have no stations in Juárez. They *do* have two in Mexicali, which is their only border market. But yeah, that logo is a trademark dispute walking. It's the radio arm of Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM), one of the country's largest newspaper publishers. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2415 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Worth noting: 760 AM is in Mexico City and they have no stations in Juárez. They *do* have two in Mexicali, which is their only border market. But yeah, that logo is a trademark dispute walking. It's the radio arm of Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM), one of the country's largest newspaper publishers. And they couldn't think of OEM Radio. Interesting. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 And they couldn't think of OEM Radio. Interesting. The reason why they are ABC in the first place is their Mexico City station is XEABC-AM and has been since it signed on in 1964. The Paul Rand-esque lettering was not used until 1993, though. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRob 937 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I thought this was weird, that a Boston-native ND would suddenly move down to Charlotte. What's happening at WFXT? https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/3/12/is-cox-selling-boston-station Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198733 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabbleship 429 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I thought this was weird, that a Boston-native ND would suddenly move down to Charlotte. What's happening at WFXT? https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/3/12/is-cox-selling-boston-station I think that Fox would have a right of first refusal to re-re-buy and with Boston possibly their odd man out in the Top 20 they may want it back. That and given how they're cashing out of print and possibly radio that Cox may be winding down. This borders on Speculatron territory but a Hearst/Cox lashup would make a lot of sense. I wonder what would happen in Orlando and Pittsburgh though. 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 829 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Julia Yarbrough From Miami is doing morning news at KHSL KNVN in California. http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/3/12/back-to-norcal 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman748 1256 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I thought this was weird, that a Boston-native ND would suddenly move down to Charlotte. What's happening at WFXT? https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/3/12/is-cox-selling-boston-station I think Cox either realized that Fox was going to buy up Fox stations and they were probably looking at buying back WFXT or they're about to cash out on it's properties (radio, papers and broadcasting) this can be discussed in the Speculation thread. Anyways, it looks like that Telemundo's WWIS is adding a 6am and a 12pm newscast which is set to debut on Monday, April 2nd http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/111898/telemundos-wwsi-adding-two-newscasts 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 3304 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 A WFAA intern was among those killed in the helicopter crash in NYC. http://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article/news/deadly-nyc-helicopter-crash-hits-home-for-wfaa-family/287-527814328 Here’s his intern newscast: 9 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman748 1256 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 A WFAA intern was among those killed in the helicopter crash in NYC. http://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article/news/deadly-nyc-helicopter-crash-hits-home-for-wfaa-family/287-527814328 Here’s his intern newscast: That's so sad, may he rest in peace and my thoughts and prayers go out to his family 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1684 Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 There's a massive article in El Nuevo Herald (Miami) on Spanish-language TV, and hoo boy, what's going on over there (besides a well out of date Telemundo logo)? "Tears, fears, frustration, intrigue and painful goodbyes. They're the ingredients of any good telenovela. But on Friday, those feelings jumped from the world of fiction and flooded their creators, the employees of America's main Hispanic television networks. Only a few don't fear for the future of their jobs. Between young bilingual Hispanics moving toward a la carte TV in English and the hostility of Donald Trump to immigrants bringing the addition of new audiences to a halt, uncertainty reigns in this fragile industry." At Telemundo, even with new studios about to open, the issue is layoffs at Telemundo Studios, where more than 100 people lost their jobs in technical positions and the facility "felt like a funeral home". Apparently the latter is the result of an increasing shift toward production in Colombia and Mexico spurred by high executive production costs. At Univision, the problems have been more widely reported: Falco's resignation, the abruptly canceled IPO, and a series of reassignments of other top Univision executives to positions at Televisa. Morale at UCI is low given that investors and the company's financial advisors want to see cost cuts on the order of $200 million. That’s sad to hear especially the loss of technical positions. Were the positions specifically in the production unit or included possible automation for Un Nuevo Dia, Al Rojo Vivo and Noticiero Telemundo? I am not sure about bilingual actors I imagine native bilingual journalists could be a differentiator in a job application for dual language duopolies (which of course is NBC/Telemundo). I wonder if they are paid more? I’ve noticed some photogs in Chicago and Boston swap back and forth between WMAQ/WSNS and WBTS/WNEU. NBC has been sharing lately - I forget the woman’s name - and in their coverage of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Also at the end of Telemundo’s superseries they have the Telemundo endcap along with Getty Hispanic. I can only find information about their stock / news images in Latin America. Could Getty be used just to set the scene? 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16860-out-about/page/274/#findComment-198881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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