Dave Lampstein 287 Posted April 1 Posted April 1 Nexstar has stations that have spent money on custom packages, so… probably it would stay the same. Or it gets reimagined by Stephen Arnold (like KRON and WPIX).
Georgie56 3661 Posted April 1 Posted April 1 2 hours ago, NEPANews said: WNEP switched this morning, and they're open is unique to the group. Most importantly, THEY KEPT THE MUSIC! Should be noted, apart from the opening sequence (which still uses a VO), and the L3s incorporating the Pixel Lens animation/look, nothing else changed. The Time/temp bug, station banner in orange for the morning, and all the transitions are still exactly the same. No "Stream Now" QR codes either, though considering the age of the average viewer in NEPA, most wouldn't know what to do with that. In action:
mouseboy33 137 Posted April 1 Posted April 1 (edited) Fine they kept their signature music. But you can see these things are churned out and sloppily at that. Its barely timed correctly to the music to hit at beat and then the cheap fade to the studio. The only element seemingly timed correctly is the little flashing box next to the logo. Lame. Edited April 1 by mouseboy33
ABC 7 Denver 1889 Posted April 1 Posted April 1 3 hours ago, Dave Lampstein said: Nexstar has stations that have spent money on custom packages, so… probably it would stay the same. Or it gets reimagined by Stephen Arnold (like KRON and WPIX). The graphics will def be dropped though.
GraphicsMan 345 Posted April 1 Posted April 1 2 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said: The graphics will def be dropped though. Don’t they have a graphics hub?
ABC 7 Denver 1889 Posted April 1 Posted April 1 13 minutes ago, GraphicsMan said: Don’t they have a graphics hub? Rey Rodriguez designs everything. It will all be unified under a suite of packages designed by him and a SAM package because there is no independence now. Although if Nexstar has their way, all stations will unaffiliate from Network and solely run NewsNation I suppose be know similarly to CBS News stations (e.g., NewsNation Denver, NewsNation Sacramento, NewsNation Jacksonville, etc.). TEGNA Design Tank will be shut down to streamline things. Why invest in anything except the bare minimum while your business model dies and you can eek out more profits? Who cares about public interest mandates anyway? This is Vulture Capitalism.
tyrannical bastard 4676 Posted April 4 Posted April 4 Can you imagine if (The company unit formerly known as Tegna operated by Nexstar) totally dumps the WNEP Music? 3
FiveNews 481 Posted April 4 Posted April 4 31 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said: Can you imagine if (The company unit formerly known as Tegna operated by Nexstar) totally dumps the WNEP Music? Is that the equivalent of WPVI dropping MCTYW or worse? I remember the backlash when PVI debuted an updated version of MCTYW in the late 90s and all hell broke loose.
TheRolyPoly 3510 Posted April 5 Posted April 5 (edited) It may be a coincidence or not that the last three yet to switch to Pixel Lens are all CBS affiliates (WWL + sister WUPL, WBNS, and KYTX). Edited April 5 by TheRolyPoly
TennTV1983 870 Posted April 8 Posted April 8 (edited) WWL-TV is on Pixel Lens as of Noon today, which leaves just WBNS & KYTX as the only two who have not yet switched. Update: KYTX is also on Pixel Lens as of Noon today. Edited April 8 by TennTV1983 2
mightynine 307 Posted April 8 Posted April 8 Hoping this means the “WWL Louisiana” branding is going away too. 3
Encore 323 79 Posted April 9 Posted April 9 (edited) WWL decided to run a very long close tonight at the end of its 5pm newscast with the new music and it was around 2 and a half minutes or so. In addition to that, KYTX CBS 19 also debuted the new graphics/music earlier today and this is the video of tonight’s 6:30pm newscast. Edited April 9 by Encore 323 1
TennTV1983 870 Posted April 9 Posted April 9 1 minute ago, TheRolyPoly said: We're waiting on you, 10TV... Their bug is on Pixel Lens, but nothing else at the moment.
ABC 7 Denver 1889 Posted April 9 Posted April 9 Maybe I'm not seeing this, but how are these package L3s any different from the Troika package?
24994J 5888 Posted April 9 Posted April 9 24 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said: Maybe I'm not seeing this, but how are these package L3s any different from the Troika package? Outside of a font color change from gray to a bluish-black color, no. Kinda like the color change of the bug that matches nothing, which, outside of them not really changing things enough, is my only real complaint about the new look.
MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 1158 Posted April 9 Posted April 9 (edited) 6 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said: Maybe I'm not seeing this, but how are these package L3s any different from the Troika package? Most of the stations dropped the weather icon from the time/temp part of the bug and the constant switch betweent the news/channel logo and "Stream Now" QR code Edited April 9 by MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie
mightynine 307 Posted April 9 Posted April 9 (edited) 10 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said: Maybe I'm not seeing this, but how are these package L3s any different from the Troika package? The differences are subtle - mainly in how the L3s animate on-screen (swipe across rather than expand/contract from middle), the layout ditches the white line / color line when the L3s had a name and identifier for a simple two-line in the white box (at least how WWL is doing it). I think it looks more cohesive than the floating arrows (whatever that was called) that had completely different L3s at times but Pixel Lens is definitely a somewhat “basic” look. Edited April 9 by mightynine
ABC 7 Denver 1889 Posted April 9 Posted April 9 7 hours ago, mightynine said: The differences are subtle - mainly in how the L3s animate on-screen (swipe across rather than expand/contract from middle), the layout ditches the white line / color line when the L3s had a name and identifier for a simple two-line in the white box (at least how WWL is doing it). I think it looks more cohesive than the floating arrows (whatever that was called) that had completely different L3s at times but Pixel Lens is definitely a somewhat “basic” look. Was this package built in-house?
Georgie56 3661 Posted April 23 Posted April 23 48 minutes ago, News Fan said: WBNS launched the new graphics today. 1 2
JRyan 694 Posted April 24 Posted April 24 Not surprisingly, WBNS has done a great job with choosing footage for the intros. 1
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