WTAJ News Altoona, PA New Set

[panewswatcher69 29]

After a long 10 years (top picture is previous news set), is Nexstar's Altoona, PA station getting a new news set finally?  Is the news set with the blue background pictured a temporary set?  The set with the blue background pictured started being used on Friday, September 1st, 2023.

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by panewswatcher69
Added previous news set

[ScottSchell 370]

7 hours ago, panewswatcher69 said:

After a long 10 years (top picture is previous news set), is Nexstar's Altoona, PA station getting a new news set finally?  Is the news set with the blue background pictured a temporary set?  The set with the blue background pictured started being used on Friday, September 1st, 2023.

 

Yes the blue background is what they typically use at their stations for the temporary set.

[panewswatcher69 29]

New WTAJ news set.  Debuted 4 pm, Wednesday, October 18th, 2023.

Edited October 20, 2023 by panewswatcher69
Corrected date

[MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 947]

I also see they switched from the "CBS" Nexstar graphics to the KOIN graphics

[MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 947]

.... and Aerial 

[tyrannical bastard 4018]

They should have gotten a new logo while they were at it. 

But this is typical Nexstar....

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

18 hours ago, panewswatcher69 said:

New WTAJ news set.  Debuted 4 pm, Wednesday, October 18th, 2023.

This is what you would expect for a market of this size. This isn't what you'd expect for Denver... Yet that is exactly what we got and it looks like crap.

[tyrannical bastard 4018]

I cringe to think what's next for some of the former Tribune stations out there that got some "last minute" changes before Nexstar took over.

 

Hopefully for stations like WGN and WJW, these changes are years away...but others like KWGN/KDVR and WTTV/WXIN were converted pretty quickly from some of their Tribune looks/packages...

[panewswatcher69 29]

Now, after 15 years, time for Sinclair's WJAC Johnstown new news set.

[nycnewsjunkie 1443]

22 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

This is what you would expect for a market of this size. This isn't what you'd expect for Denver... Yet that is exactly what we got and it looks like crap.

The thing that irks me about that is that the set it replaced was only 3(!) years old, and (at least imo), looked newer and more polished. It’s one thing if they were replacing a 10-20 year old set, but to throw away a perfectly functional set after only 3 years? What a waste.

 

KDVR didn’t need to replace their set; they needed to replace the (metaphorical) revolving door of talent.

[ABC 7 Denver 1729]

On 10/21/2023 at 4:29 PM, nycnewsjunkie said:

The thing that irks me about that is that the set it replaced was only 3(!) years old, and (at least imo), looked newer and more polished. It’s one thing if they were replacing a 10-20 year old set, but to throw away a perfectly functional set after only 3 years? What a waste.

 

KDVR didn’t need to replace their set; they needed to replace the (metaphorical) revolving door of talent.

 

And even their previous set was only about 6 years old. They keep replacing sets like that is going to improve ratings.

 

Honestly, Byron Grandy needs to be fired. He and Joan Barrett haven't a clue what they are doing.