New CBS O&O Look Coming Soon?

[Ryan 24]

CBS New York is using the First Alert Weather now.

[mightynine 290]

I'd argue the look of CBS News (streaming) is a better implementation than what's on network, outside of some minor nitpicks - IMO, the logo bug is too big, the little programming indicator is too small. I think if they adjusted it so that the programming indicator was within the box, it would help, and they could go back to what they have now when the programming isn't live.

 

Example:

 

 

 

[MediaZone4K 2233]

The KDKA black and gold is the best looking that I've seen so far amongst the CBS O&Os. It's a departure from the usual blue or white box look on most TV news casts. That being said it would look nice if each individual CBS affiliate could have their own tweaks to the standard graphics package for individuality.

 

As for the CBS News streaming graphics, it's the typical white box flatness, but it works nonetheless. really digging the textured world map element to the CBS News Mornings orange package.

 

Overall the rebrand works though I thought they'd call it something like "CBS News+"  to distinguish the national streaming feed from the TV network.

Edited January 25, 2022 by iron_lion

[NYTV 121]

TVNewser reported on May 3rd that CBS News had appointed Gabe Almanzar as Creative Director, who will be in charge of the graphics teams across the properties

https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/cbs-news-appoints-gabe-almanzar-creative-director/506668/ (paywall)

[Georgie56 3318]

Not to continue to throw speculation out there, but I saw WFOR using a new BROWARD transition at the beginning of this story. I wonder if this could be a tease of something bigger.

 

 

[WCX-TV 17]

41 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

Not to continue to throw speculation out there, but I saw WFOR using a new BROWARD transition at the beginning of this story. I wonder if this could be a tease of something bigger.

 

 

CBS Miami has been using these transitions for a while now. I believe it started when CBS News Miami launched or just a bit before.

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

44 minutes ago, WCX-TV said:

CBS Miami has been using these transitions for a while now. I believe it started when CBS News Miami launched or just a bit before.

 

It's a thing...

[Georgie56 3318]

We have confirmation on new O&O graphics from NewscastStudio.

 

[Geoffrey 872]

There has been chatter about CBS O&Os possibly dropping channel numbers in favor of branding such as "CBS News New York". But a new paint job for WCBS's Chopper 2 shows a "CBS 2 News New York" branding: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfuXtkDO6S7/

 

Chopper 2, which the station shares with WNYW, has not had branding on it for many years. If the new graphics are indeed launching this fall, it would make sense that they paint the chopper in advance in order to get shots for opens and promos. (I doubt the mouthful "CBS 2 News New York This Morning" will be the actual newscast title format.)

 

I'm not a fan of dropping channel numbers so I'm happy that this seems to not be happening. I hope the upcoming look is much more well thought out than the current group package, which felt sloppy and dated the day it launched.

[nycnewsjunkie 1443]

17 minutes ago, Geoffrey said:

There has been chatter about CBS O&Os possibly dropping channel numbers in favor of branding such as "CBS News New York". But a new paint job for WCBS's Chopper 2 shows a "CBS 2 News New York" branding: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfuXtkDO6S7/

 

Chopper 2, which the station shares with WNYW, has not had branding on it for many years. If the new graphics are indeed launching this fall, it would make sense that they paint the chopper in advance in order to get shots for opens and promos. (I doubt the mouthful "CBS 2 News New York This Morning" will be the actual newscast title format.)

 

I'm not a fan of dropping channel numbers so I'm happy that this seems to not be happening. I hope the upcoming look is much more well thought out than the current group package, which felt sloppy and dated the day it launched.

I’ve always thought that the website rebranding was more of a way to connect the stations’ often glitchy websites to the CBS News website, and in turn drive internet traffic to the national side of things. There has not yet been definitive evidence of dropping local branding wholesale. AFAIK, the only mentions made about dropping local branding were comments on this website, and that was nothing more than speculation. Of course, my theory is also speculation (they could theoretically drop local branding on air and online while keeping it in the sky), so I wouldn’t take this as a sign of anything until we have a better idea of the upcoming new look.

[DonDonP1 118]

34 minutes ago, nycnewsjunkie said:

I’ve always thought that the website rebranding was more of a way to connect the stations’ often glitchy websites to the CBS News website, and in turn drive internet traffic to the national side of things. There has not yet been definitive evidence of dropping local branding wholesale. AFAIK, the only mentions made about dropping local branding were comments on this website, and that was nothing more than speculation. Of course, my theory is also speculation (they could theoretically drop local branding on air and online while keeping it in the sky), so I wouldn’t take this as a sign of anything until we have a better idea of the upcoming new look.

To be honest, I doubt that Paramount and CBS News & Stations would remove the channel numbers from most CBS O&Os' newscast titles.

Edited July 7, 2022 by DonDonP1

[Nick 94]

On 7/7/2022 at 2:34 PM, Geoffrey said:

There has been chatter about CBS O&Os possibly dropping channel numbers in favor of branding such as "CBS News New York". But a new paint job for WCBS's Chopper 2 shows a "CBS 2 News New York" branding: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfuXtkDO6S7/

 

Chopper 2, which the station shares with WNYW, has not had branding on it for many years. If the new graphics are indeed launching this fall, it would make sense that they paint the chopper in advance in order to get shots for opens and promos. (I doubt the mouthful "CBS 2 News New York This Morning" will be the actual newscast title format.)

 

I'm not a fan of dropping channel numbers so I'm happy that this seems to not be happening. I hope the upcoming look is much more well thought out than the current group package, which felt sloppy and dated the day it launched.

I was also hoping that the stations would keep the channel numbers.  And as for the WCBS chopper paint job, I do think that is the look you'll see in the fall.  Notice the colors are reversed;   the eyemark is gold and the "2" white.  That's new.

[NYTV 121]

1 hour ago, Nick said:

I was also hoping that the stations would keep the channel numbers.  And as for the WCBS chopper paint job, I do think that is the look you'll see in the fall.  Notice the colors are reversed;   the eyemark is gold and the "2" white.  That's new.

Perhaps a throwback to the 1997 logo

[TexasTVNews 1378]

1 hour ago, NYTV said:

Perhaps a throwback to the 1997 logo

 

I wished that KCBS and WBBM would've had WCBS logo.

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

It looks like KCNC is going for a full rebrand to CBSNewsColorado. https://twitter.com/CBSNewsColorado

 

[Nick 94]

7 hours ago, NYTV said:

Perhaps a throwback to the 1997 logo

I don't even live in the New York market and I wish WCBS could have kept that.  I guess I'm a traditionalist-type.  At least KPIX got to keep its Westinghouse-style "5" that dates back to the late sixties.

[kfc513 238]

On 7/14/2022 at 5:53 PM, ABC 7 Denver said:

It looks like KCNC is going for a full rebrand to CBSNewsColorado. https://twitter.com/CBSNewsColorado

 

Speaking of KCNC, I came across this video from yesterday featuring a couple of stingers that I haven't seen before; and they look really close to the newer CBS branding - https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/dangerous-flooding-emergency-message-larimer-county-sheriff/

 

Could this be a possible hint at the new graphics?

 

 

 

[Chase29 18]

2 hours ago, kfc513 said:

 

Speaking of KCNC, I came across this video from yesterday featuring a couple of stingers that I haven't seen before; and they look really close to the newer CBS branding - https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/dangerous-flooding-emergency-message-larimer-county-sheriff/

 

Could this be a possible hint at the new graphics?

 

 

 

I'm not sure but the Breaking News graphics have been used for some time now.

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

21 hours ago, kfc513 said:

 

Speaking of KCNC, I came across this video from yesterday featuring a couple of stingers that I haven't seen before; and they look really close to the newer CBS branding - https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/dangerous-flooding-emergency-message-larimer-county-sheriff/

 

Could this be a possible hint at the new graphics?

 

 

 

 

KCNC has been using a hodgepodge of 4 different graphics packages for the last few years. It's a design mess.

[TheSpeedKing 268]

1 hour ago, Georgie56 said:

Here’s the full debut edition of the show, recorded off WBFS.

 

 

The now-garbage 2016 graphics has reached the beginning of the end. Good riddance. I wonder how WJZ will look like with this.

[Ryan 24]

I came across this on CBS New York on YouTube. 2 videos were posted within the hour. Here are the screenshots and the links. 

 

 

[Georgie56 3318]

The graphics package on the NOW newscasts are not the upcoming CBS O&O graphics. They’re still a work in progress.

[TheSpeedKing 268]

22 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

The graphics package on the NOW newscasts are not the upcoming CBS O&O graphics. They’re still a work in progress.

However, I still think that whatever new “O&O package” comes out will be extremely similar to this one, especially now it’s seeing more use on-air and not just online. 

[Lance 2]

I'm guessing the graphics team is still getting used to the new lower thirds because that's a lot of empty space for the text to be that condensed.

 

Not really liking the extra large logo, but that's on par with the national network design so it's unsurprising that local is trying to mimic the general style.

[qunewsguy 378]

The new look's gotta be coming soon. Notice the monitor wall graphic from WCBS this afternoon...