The Ever-Evolving Gray Graphics Situation...Thread

[qunewsguy 378]

Going allllll the way back to page one of this thread, WOIO's look has been claimed by Matt Quinn, who also does work with Hothaus (explaining why it's so similar to other Hothaus packages but not an official one).

 

https://mattquinncreative.com/woio-cleveland

 

[Yankees4life 561]

Gray is moving like a snail to get new graphics for WECT in.

 

Hopefully, by the end of the year, the bricks graphics are dead and buried for all of the Ex-Raycom stations

Edited April 10, 2020 by Yankees4life

[Georgie56 3318]

New station: KOLD. WBTV/WBAY graphics.

 

 

[newsn8te 202]

11 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

New station: KOLD. WBTV/WBAY graphics.

 

 

A very cheap and horribly animated version.... I expected better from KOLD. 

[Yankees4life 561]

23 hours ago, HoosierNewsie said:

A very cheap and horribly animated version.... I expected better from KOLD. 

The theme music didn't really help either. A lot of wrong there...

[MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 947]

I'm surprised they kept the Raycom weather graphics

[I’m a news junkie..so what 42]

On 4/22/2020 at 7:45 PM, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

I'm surprised they kept the Raycom weather graphics

WMC did the same thing. They only got cousin upper thirds.

[TriadMetrolinaNewswatch 17]

On 4/20/2020 at 9:31 PM, HoosierNewsie said:

A very cheap and horribly animated version.... I expected better from KOLD. 

Good golly..... What works in Charlotte (home market) will not necessarily work in Tucson! Not to mention, Raycom graphics were previously hubbed in Tucson prior to the hub's move to Charlotte (again, my said home market) in 2014.

Edited May 3, 2020 by TriadMetrolinaNewswatch
I was kind of a year off when I was finding out the date in which Raycom (gobbled up by Gray) moved its graphics hub from Tucson to Charlotte.

[L3rds 6]

On 4/10/2020 at 4:58 PM, Yankees4life said:

Gray is moving like a snail to get new graphics for WECT in.

 

Hopefully, by the end of the year, the bricks graphics are dead and buried for all of the Ex-Raycom stations

Nooooooooo! Long live the tire tread graphics!

[TheMassMediaGeek 98]

Locals Only has made it back to KOLO after a 4 year absence.

 

Edited May 9, 2020 by TheMassMediaGeek

[MyNewsArchive 197]

1 hour ago, TheMassMediaGeek said:

New station: KOLO, using the WMC package. Locals Only makes its return to the station after a 4 year absence.

 

 

I wouldn't say NEW as since they implemented the gfx almost 9 months ago...

 

 

[I’m a news junkie..so what 42]

I think that if they use the graphics like WTOC,WCSC, and WXIX and better lower thirds, the graphics would look better. They need more options of graphics customizable to the station. I haven’t seen any station use  WRLH’s graphics.

[TheMassMediaGeek 98]

11 hours ago, MyNewsArchive said:

 

I wouldn't say NEW as since they implemented the gfx almost 9 months ago...

 

 

Thank you for telling me that MyNewsArchive. The only thing that was new is that KOLO switched back to Locals Only.

Edited May 9, 2020 by TheMassMediaGeek

[tw-804 193]

14 hours ago, I’m a news junkie..so what said:

I think that if they use the graphics like WTOC,WCSC, and WXIX and better lower thirds, the graphics would look better. They need more options of graphics customizable to the station. I haven’t seen any station use  WRLH’s graphics.

You mean WDBJ’s graphics. WRLH - owned by Sinclair - is the third station that’s using them (the second is WITN in eastern North Carolina). Gray’s WWBT has a news share agreement with WRLH.

Edited May 9, 2020 by tw-804
UPDATE (2:16pm/ET): Forgot WITN is using the WDBJ graphics currently. It’s the second.

[tyrannical bastard 4019]

Could we be seeing a new package for their uber-dominant stations like WVUE and WBRC that still have the old package?

[I’m a news junkie..so what 42]

Has KSWO in Lawton, OK gotten Gray’d yet?

[CircleSeven 1960]

Well let's see which stations have yet to switch. I posted this back on Christmas Eve.

On 12/24/2019 at 12:09 PM, CircleSeven said:

WWNY, WECT, WTVM, WBRC, WSFA, WAFF, KSLA, KPLC, WVUE, WFIE, KFVS, KAIT, KEYC, KCBD, KSWO, KAUZ, KOLD, KGMB/KHNL. I'm probably missing a couple.

 

I've scratched the ones that gotten "Gray'd" since then.

[jbnews 344]

7 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

Well let's see which stations have yet to switch. I posted this back on Christmas Eve.

 

I've scratched the ones that gotten "Gray'd" since then.

That's good. I'm not too impressed with Gray's packages. I hope more stations pick up the WAVE look.

[I’m a news junkie..so what 42]

14 hours ago, jbnews said:

That's good. I'm not too impressed with Gray's packages. I hope more stations pick up the WAVE look.

I wish that every Gray station that picked up WMC’s pkg could pick up WAVE’s package, but that’s a dream.

Edited May 10, 2020 by I’m a news junkie..so what

[AaronQ 282]

23 hours ago, I’m a news junkie..so what said:

Has KSWO in Lawton, OK gotten Gray’d yet?

Not yet, still on the old Raycom graphics. 

[evv_mlis 24]

If WFIE got the WAVE graphics, I'd be happy. I'm not expecting it though.

[I’m a news junkie..so what 42]

 

I was going through YouTube and I found a part of WDBD’s possible open with the WLOX graphics.

Edited July 24, 2020 by 24994J
Just post the YouTube link. No goofy embedding necessary.

[tyrannical bastard 4019]

11 hours ago, I’m a news junkie..so what said:

 

I was going through YouTube and I found a part of WDBD’s possible open with the WLOX graphics.

WDBD uses the same graphics as WLOX, while their parent station WLBT uses the WMC package.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if WOIO gets a standard Gray package at this point.  Even before Raycom, Gray liked to switch things up frequently on their stations as new packages come on line.

[TennTV1983 806]

4 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

WDBD uses the same graphics as WLOX, while their parent station WLBT uses the WMC package.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if WOIO gets a standard Gray package at this point.  Even before Raycom, Gray liked to switch things up frequently on their stations as new packages come on line.

The KWCH/WBTV graphics would probably look great for WOIO to use.

[TheRyan 560]

It would be a shame of WOIO dumped those graphics this soon.  It's the best package they've had since the days of 19 Action News.  Nothing in Gray's current graphics portfolio would be nearly as good as the current gfx on WOIO.