Georgie56 3064 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 (edited) WRIC has debuted a new never-before-seen Nexstar graphics package. Here are some of the weather graphics, taken from their website. Edited June 9, 2022 by Georgie56 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw-804 190 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 (edited) Not only that, they have brand new music: Aerial by Stephen Arnold Music (yeah, the theme that most of TVNT hates, lol...). Edited June 9, 2022 by tw-804 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGSJenkins 432 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Here's the graphics in motion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanewsguy 509 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 (would rather send the traffic to my channel lol) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life 530 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 YUCK. Why in God's name did they switch to Ariel? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenneth Kissel 280 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 (edited) At least it is better then THIS logo. WRIC has seen much worse. Their highlight was when they were Media General's Flagship. Remember, This station was owned by Young Broadcasting who treated WRIC as a dumpster fire. People around Richmond would actually ask for WVEC or WJLA in their cable/satellite subscriptions in the 90s/00s due to how bad this station was. Edited June 9, 2022 by Kenneth Kissel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw-804 190 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 37 minutes ago, Kenneth Kissel said: People around Richmond would actually ask for WVEC or WJLA in their cable/satellite subscriptions in the 90s/00s due to how bad this station was. Wait, WHAT?! I didn't know that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenneth Kissel 280 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) 18 minutes ago, tw-804 said: Wait, WHAT?! I didn't know that. I have several friends of mine that live around the outskirts of the Richmond area. If you lived in Williamsburg, West Point, Emporia, Waverly, Hopewell , and some others . You had an option to add WVEC to your cable/satellite package either as a replacement to WRIC or an addon for a extra fee (That was also possible for WAVY/WTKR/WGNT/WTVZ/and WVBT as well). If you lived in Fredericksburg, Bowling Green, Mineral, Charlottesville (They got their own ABC affiliate in 2004), Port Royal, Orange County, and some others. You had the option to add WJLA as a replacement to WRIC or an addon for an extra fee (this also worked for WUSA/WTTG/WFTY/and WRC). This was an option mostly for Cox Communications and Directv/Dish Network Subscribers. Edited June 10, 2022 by Kenneth Kissel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 802 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) r 5 hours ago, Kenneth Kissel said: At least it is better then THIS logo. WRIC has seen much worse. Their highlight was when they were Media General's Flagship. Remember, This station was owned by Young Broadcasting who treated WRIC as a dumpster fire. People around Richmond would actually ask for WVEC or WJLA in their cable/satellite subscriptions in the 90s/00s due to how bad this station was. I remember that logo and watched WRIC TV8 News in the mid90s while visiting Richmond. However down the road Young seem to do some investing. It got to a point WRIC & WTVR were tied in some newscast and WRIC beat WTVR for #2. That logo made it for two decades and I don't know how it survived without changes, but Young Broadcasting, wasn't like many groups. Edited June 10, 2022 by Breaking News 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Rubber 610 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) Not too impressed. On both the weather graphics and on the open, the text seems to just get lost into the background. This is what happens when you use plain white text with no outline / no drop shadow on a busy background. Edited June 10, 2022 by Spring Rubber 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycnewsjunkie 1405 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Looks decent…for 2010. Maybe it’s just me, but imho both the graphics and music are a downgrade from what they replaced. They both look/sound well past their expiration date, and they just debuted. If only Tribune’s creative services team was kept… 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noggi 600 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Wow! This is really bad! Congrats. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froyo49 229 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Not a fan of the graphics. The sound effect for the “forecast first” is annoying, the clutter underneath the lower thirds is unnecessary, and a lot of elements give me $34 VideoHive vibes. I’m mostly fine with the other Nexstar packages, but this one just isn’t great IMO. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenneth Kissel 280 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) Here is the Noon broadcast along with "Showcase Richmond". This also has some weather promos/News Nation Promos. To answer @froyo49, There is a ticker below the new graphics but it still using the old 2016-2022 logo for now. Edited June 10, 2022 by Kenneth Kissel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLT-DCA-ORF-PTI 86 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 7 hours ago, froyo49 said: Not a fan of the graphics. The sound effect for the “forecast first” is annoying, the clutter underneath the lower thirds is unnecessary, and a lot of elements give me $34 VideoHive vibes. I’m mostly fine with the other Nexstar packages, but this one just isn’t great IMO. I agree, I feel like the space underneath the L3 might be for a ticker? Open is definitely a downgrade, this almost looks like an in-house open like WJET. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenneth Kissel 280 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) 35 minutes ago, CLT-DCA-ORF-PTI said: I agree, I feel like the space underneath the L3 might be for a ticker? Open is definitely a downgrade, this almost looks like an in-house open like WJET. Not Exactly, WJET uses the FOX-1 graphics like sister WFXP but with a different shade. Edited June 10, 2022 by Kenneth Kissel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 593 Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 On 6/9/2022 at 7:13 PM, Kenneth Kissel said: At least it is better then THIS logo. WRIC has seen much worse. Their highlight was when they were Media General's Flagship. Remember, This station was owned by Young Broadcasting who treated WRIC as a dumpster fire. People around Richmond would actually ask for WVEC or WJLA in their cable/satellite subscriptions in the 90s/00s due to how bad this station was. That logo was much better as a circle. Never liked the rectangle treatment all that much. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLNewsExpert 309 Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Why the hell does anyone seem to like this on YT? This is just TOO busy and inconsistent, even the lower thirds are hard to look at and don't get me started on the intro! Trust me I like 3D news opens these days but this is NOT how you do it! Who approved this and Areil, KHNL is the only station that it works with! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 748 Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 I'm not too fond of the tall/thin fonts... reminds me of what KOIN had used before they updated... the smaller that font gets, the harder it is to read.... I give it a meh... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cg41386 131 Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 (edited) Not a fan of those L3s... too many layers that look like they don't belong there. Edited June 13, 2022 by cg41386 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSpeedKing 263 Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 On 6/11/2022 at 12:25 PM, ATLNewsExpert said: Why the hell does anyone seem to like this on YT? This is just TOO busy and inconsistent, even the lower thirds are hard to look at and don't get me started on the intro! Trust me I like 3D news opens these days but this is NOT how you do it! Who approved this and Areil, KHNL is the only station that it works with! WBNS: "Am I a joke to you?" But yes, I concur. I suspect this is an in-house pack given all these unnecessary extras. This could quite be the worst in-house job a Nexstar station has done. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cg41386 131 Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 I've noticed the unnecessarily-layered L3s on other Nexstar stations, too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggo 340 Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Who is that VO guy?!? Awful! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABC 7 Denver 1552 Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 (edited) On 6/10/2022 at 7:16 AM, nycnewsjunkie said: Looks decent…for 2010. Maybe it’s just me, but imho both the graphics and music are a downgrade from what they replaced. They both look/sound well past their expiration date, and they just debuted. If only Tribune’s creative services team was kept… What do you expect for a package that's almost 12 years old? Edited June 15, 2022 by ABC 7 Denver 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanewsguy 509 Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 2 hours ago, Greggo said: Who is that VO guy?!? Awful! Tim Dadabo. I completely agree that he’s awful. 1 hour ago, ABC 7 Denver said: This is NOT a LinearDrift/Rey Rodriguez graphics package. Also, what do you expect for a package that's almost 12 years old? Rey did indeed design this. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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