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I love the set, supposedly took 4 years to come to fruition - probably most of it was planning and building the extension to the building. I love how they have large curved monitor wall slightly with its own background. The a separate backdrop allows  a canvas slightly with an aspect ratio larger than a 16:9 float above much like the 4:3 OTS elements. 

I also love the ingenuity of the two-two camera set up with a PTZ heads on the top/bottom of a cutout. It’s great that when they’re not in use they can slide back between two walls. 

 

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On 6/11/2024 at 1:26 AM, rkolsen said:

I love the set, supposedly took 4 years to come to fruition - probably most of it was planning and building the extension to the building. I love how they have large curved monitor wall slightly with its own background. The a separate backdrop allows  a canvas slightly with an aspect ratio larger than a 16:9 float above much like the 4:3 OTS elements. 

I also love the ingenuity of the two-two camera set up with a PTZ heads on the top/bottom of a cutout. It’s great that when they’re not in use they can slide back between two walls. 

 

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/394023269948456961/1249911659632394240/RPReplay_Final1718072407.mov

 

IMG_6207.thumb.jpeg.87bad3557bb90949a006da9697db03ea.jpeg

 

I love it! The last set was amazing at the time it debuted, but honestly, it aged quite a bit so it was time for a new one! It's simple, not that complicated, but I love it for that, and the colors and lighting all tie into together nicely. I see some inspiration from parts of the old set, and some from Europe, like the use of the main wall as a set extension (which is beautiful). My eyes at first did not know how to take the new logo but I think since it debuted, it's grown on me. The graphics are pretty stellar as well. I think I seen that this set will also become Washington Week's set as well, I wonder how they'll change it for WW. Their outgoing set was a beautiful set too, probably better than the News Hour set.

 

Overall, I actually rank this as my second favorite of the main four evening newscasts' sets, behind the CBS Evening News set!

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They premiered Washington Week from the new studio. Appears they use one pedestal camera shots. Along with the two PTZ cameras on each “retractable” wall. The PTZ appears to be setup where one is a wide shot and another is a close shot. They appear to use transitions to change the close up shot.

 

 

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I’ve noticed something over the past couple weeks that they are starting to brand as PBS News and not PBS NewsHour overall. Case in point, tonight’s debate. In the past it would say “PBS NewsHour Special,” now it just says “PBS News Special.”

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One thing I've been wondering-- when did the PBS NewsHour start having it where both anchors were in the same studio together (as it is now), unlike where each anchor was in a separate place (as was the case w/Robert MacNeil in New York and Jim Lehrer in Washington, both deceased)?

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10 hours ago, bmasters1 said:

One thing I've been wondering-- when did the PBS NewsHour start having it where both anchors were in the same studio together (as it is now), unlike where each anchor was in a separate place (as was the case w/Robert MacNeil in New York and Jim Lehrer in Washington, both deceased)?

I think that started after Jim Lehrer's retirement, when Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill succeeded him, not too long after the rebrand from just "The News Hour" to the "PBS NewsHour", still a few years before the 2015 set. I remember during Lehrer's last few years, even if the newscast had two anchors (Woodruff often co-anchored with Lehrer I believe), they would not be sitting at the same desk, one would be in one part of the set, while the other was on the opposite side, separated by a duratran, almost like to give the illusion that they were in seperate places.

On 6/27/2024 at 9:34 PM, EVVTV12 said:

I’ve noticed something over the past couple weeks that they are starting to brand as PBS News and not PBS NewsHour overall. Case in point, tonight’s debate. In the past it would say “PBS NewsHour Special,” now it just says “PBS News Special.”

That started once the new set debuted, with the social's rebranding to "PBS News" as well, even the website. Honestly, it's about time, especially in this digital age, the news operation should not be limited to just an hour, and it honestly makes things confusing in my opinion, imagine if the big three done that. "This is a CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell Special Report, I'm Norah O'Donnell in the nation's capital" 

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13 hours ago, ATLNewsExpert said:

I think that started after Jim Lehrer's retirement, when Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill succeeded him, not too long after the rebrand from just "The News Hour" to the "PBS NewsHour", still a few years before the 2015 set. I remember during Lehrer's last few years, even if the newscast had two anchors (Woodruff often co-anchored with Lehrer I believe), they would not be sitting at the same desk, one would be in one part of the set, while the other was on the opposite side, separated by a duratran, almost like to give the illusion that they were in seperate places.

 

I remember seeing it for a time in the 90s when MacNeil and Lehrer were in front of backdrops in their respective places (New York and Washington), each with the NewsHour title and "New York" or "Washington" on them, in an alternating fashion.

 

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