bmasters1 418 Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 Something I'd like to know about a certain 1980 broadcast of WGHP TV8 Eyewitness News that is on YouTube in the form of excerpts: Fred Blackman had his name and the newscast name in the lower third, while also having the newscast name and title in an OTS graphic. Why was that title OTS of Fred, instead of an image/graphic of what Fred was reporting on?
Weeters 1981 Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 I went looking for this clip to find the context and instead found another clip with the same thing. So the answer is "that's just the way they did things then."
tyrannical bastard 4084 Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 Maybe the art department was off that day, or someone lost the slide. Back in those days, it truly was an "art department" with people creating actual artwork and not just computers doing it for them.
bmasters1 418 Posted January 29, 2021 Author Posted January 29, 2021 3 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said: Maybe the art department was off that day, or someone lost the slide. Back in those days, it truly was an "art department" with people creating actual artwork and not just computers doing it for them. Never thought of it that way! Nowadays, you can have full-screen images of any story behind one anchor or both anchors, for one thing.
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