The Ever-Evolving Gray Graphics Situation...Thread

[nathannah 2505]

WBAY is at Gray...Half right now. They have the ticker and the bug good to go, but the older-gen weather, main graphics and L3 system is still in use (I assume the plan is to have it all done by draft night on the 24th for sure). It actually still works together despite the two different design languages.

 

[TheRolyPoly 2592]

On 4/8/2025 at 7:45 PM, nathannah said:

WBAY is at Gray...Half right now. They have the ticker and the bug good to go, but the older-gen weather, main graphics and L3 system is still in use (I assume the plan is to have it all done by draft night on the 24th for sure). It actually still works together despite the two different design languages.

 

 

I decided to record the first three minutes of WBAY's noon news yesterday to see it in action for prosperity. Yes, I'm plan to do more videos like this again but not as consistent or as much as other YouTubers.

 

 

[hfiles 81]

Action 2 News at Noon reverted back to the old ticker and the old time/temp bug today.

 

EDIT: Old ticker at 4pm too.

Edited April 10 by hfiles

[tyrannical bastard 4036]

WUAB has a "new" logo....as they transition back into an independent station when the CW moves (back) to WBNX.
WBNX is now owned by Nexstar and from what I'm hearing, is now being operated remotely by one of Nexstar's hubs.

 

It's a long time coming.  WUAB has suffered greatly since the Raycom days and going independent again will hopefully be a good thing, especially since Nexstar has watered down the CW into a crap network with "wider" appeal.

 

[nathannah 2505]

4 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

It's a long time coming.  WUAB has suffered greatly since the Raycom days and going independent again will hopefully be a good thing, especially since Nexstar has watered down the CW into a crap network with "wider" appeal.

If anything screams '2000s imagining consultants imagining what the kids like', it was their branding the most at that time; "43 The Block" remains on the hill of worst station brandings above "JoeTV" and that short time KWGN was "The Deuce". "Cleveland's 43" is a signal that there are finally adults in the room.

[Kingpeytonifx 20]

Kptv has added the grayone graphics to its 7 day Forcast I took a screenshot from zeam to show this

[Zantheman87 2]

WYMT has removed the CBS eye from its logo on their 24/7 livestream. More GrayOne assets also appear.

[LOWERCASE GUY 283]

39 minutes ago, Zantheman87 said:

WYMT has removed the CBS eye from its logo on their 24/7 livestream. More GrayOne assets also appear.

I can confirm WYMT will be switching to GrayONE this year as part of their 40th anniversary celebration. They are slowly working it into promos and weather has fully gone GrayONE (Watch an entire Weather cast.) The CBS Eye removal is part of the Gray Mandate.

[Zantheman87 2]

11 hours ago, LOWERCASE GUY said:

I can confirm WYMT will be switching to GrayONE this year as part of their 40th anniversary celebration. They are slowly working it into promos and weather has fully gone GrayONE (Watch an entire Weather cast.) The CBS Eye removal is part of the Gray Mandate.

Really like that their switching as apart of their 40th anniversary! (Hoping their old logo will make an appearance.) Looks like we will have to wait till about October for the switch though.

[Kingpeytonifx 20]

WBKO has began using grayone on its wbko + live stream I've took a screenshot and recorded a video to show this. This goes along with promos and the weather graphics post that I made a month ago 

Edited April 27 by Kingpeytonifx
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[NEOMatrix 1307]

On 4/24/2025 at 2:14 PM, nathannah said:

If anything screams '2000s imagining consultants imagining what the kids like', it was their branding the most at that time; "43 The Block" remains on the hill of worst station brandings above "JoeTV" and that short time KWGN was "The Deuce". "Cleveland's 43" is a signal that there are finally adults in the room.

WUAB has had either horrendous or generic branding ever since “Hometeam 43” in 1999. Between “Hometeam”, “(my)43 the Block,” “CLE43”, and “UPN/my/CW 43”, I don’t think Raycom has put any effort into branding WUAB, or even WOIO for that matter. Honestly, it’s nice to see Gray trying.

[Kingpeytonifx 20]

Kolo 8 got the grayone graphics yesterday 

[MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 949]

Really frickin irritates me when they can't get the fonts correct

[Kingpeytonifx 20]

2 minutes ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

Really frickin irritates me when they can't get the fonts correct

Yep especially that weather open 

[LOWERCASE GUY 283]

On 4/30/2025 at 2:30 PM, Kingpeytonifx said:

Yep especially that weather open 

They are fixing it. It appears they forgot to install Barlow on their machines. Once they did that, it started to fix everything weatherwise.

That said, WILX is next.

[evv_mlis 26]

WFIE has started using GrayONE elements (fonts, backgrounds) in commercials for anchor changes beginning May 5. 

[Kingpeytonifx 20]

3 hours ago, LOWERCASE GUY said:

They are fixing it. It appears they forgot to install Barlow on their machines. Once they did that, it started to fix everything weatherwise.

That said, WILX is next.

Nice I can't wait 

[Kingpeytonifx 20]

4 hours ago, LOWERCASE GUY said:

They are fixing it. It appears they forgot to install Barlow on their machines. Once they did that, it started to fix everything weatherwise.

 

Looks like they did. Also the old ABC logo and weather logo also appear.

Edited May 3 by Kingpeytonifx
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[AC1211 3]

KOTA removed the ABC logo so i'm kinda guessing somethings coming soon 

[LOWERCASE GUY 283]

1 hour ago, AC1211 said:

KOTA removed the ABC logo so i'm kinda guessing somethings coming soon 

It may just be since they brand their ABC/FOX as both KOTA Territory, they removed the ABC eye for consistency (Or the Gray Affiliate Logo Removal continues.) I do know GrayONE is coming later this year/early next year. There are quite a few stations ahead of them.

[AC1211 3]

oh okay i just saw that and thought something grayone related is coming soon

[tyrannical bastard 4036]

I'm willing to guess that these removals are contingent on affiliate renewals.  Gray probably has many of them all over the place due to acquisitions over the years. 
Even though some like WBKO have adopted the new ABC logo, it's probably staying around for this agreement until that expires.

Fox is likely the network that will hold them to some form of dual-branding.

[GodfreyGR 690]

On 5/7/2025 at 5:36 PM, LOWERCASE GUY said:

It may just be since they brand their ABC/FOX as both KOTA Territory, they removed the ABC eye for consistency

This, and it's been this for almost a year. If you look at the KOTA Facebook, they have used an affiliate-less logo in the profile pic since August 2024, around the same time they folded the KEVN/"Black Hills Fox" branding into the KOTA Territory banner. Looking on Wayback.org, I had to go to June 2024 to find a KOTAtv.com homepage that had the ABC logo adjoining the call letters.

[Kingpeytonifx 20]

Wymt has removed the CBS eye form the 2022 open I tried uploading a video but it failed 

Edited May 12 by Kingpeytonifx
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[nathannah 2505]

On 5/10/2025 at 11:29 AM, GodfreyGR said:

This, and it's been this for almost a year. If you look at the KOTA Facebook, they have used an affiliate-less logo in the profile pic since August 2024, around the same time they folded the KEVN/"Black Hills Fox" branding into the KOTA Territory banner. Looking on Wayback.org, I had to go to June 2024 to find a KOTAtv.com homepage that had the ABC logo adjoining the call letters.

They also have a 'malicious compliance' version of the logo where the ABC ball is still used...but for the Fox version they just replace the ABC text with the Fox logo. It's technically compliant for its use, but it feels like it's easier to just switch logos without the black ball being needed.