Casey Buck 35 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Alpena may the one of the last markets in the country that's outright missing a network over the air. WBKB's main channel is CBS, and their subchannels are ABC and a FOX/MNTV combo in widescreen SD, but no NBC. The only other over the air station is a satellite of WCMU in Mt Pleasant. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-263182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life 559 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 56 minutes ago, Casey Buck said: Alpena may the one of the last markets in the country that's outright missing a network over the air. WBKB's main channel is CBS, and their subchannels are ABC and a FOX/MNTV combo in widescreen SD, but no NBC. The only other over the air station is a satellite of WCMU in Mt Pleasant. WPBN fills in that slot on cable BTW... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-263183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTSC1980 112 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-265871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Rubber 703 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 22 minutes ago, LTSC1980 said: I would argue that the open might have been the best part of the newscast... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-265872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaZone4K 2176 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 WXTV's massive flat white box look is terrible compared to WNJU Telemundo 47's graphics. The graphics from WNBC are fine. The abrupt cold open with no announcer introduction is just too quick IMO, compared to their previous intros. Better than some other intros on this list but...NNN's truncated open compared to their previous grand animated intro, or the late Brokaw early Williams era open, sucks. FullSizeRender.mov Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-265888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VHSgoodiesWA 303 Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 The worst opening montage that KIMA/KEPR ever had...the first version of Action News. This is with the Battery music package that was used up until 2018 when Sinclair finally started transitioning them. The same montage had been used a year prior with a variant of the CBS Enforcer music package and a different announcer. It's not as choppy as I've seen in other videos, but the graphics scream "yuck"! Compared with KOMO and KATU at the same time, with the same owners, they treated these folks like the red-headed stepchild. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-265935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 I'd like to induct a new Canadian member of the Worst News Opens Club... Bad 3D, vapid music... Earl Mann's VO is the only good thing about this. What was WIC thinking!? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-269958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathannah 2429 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 34 minutes ago, Samantha said: I'd like to induct a new Canadian member of the Worst News Opens Club... Bad 3D, vapid music... Earl Mann's VO is the only good thing about this. What was WIC thinking!? In 2022, that 'falling windows and breaking building' open does not look well at all. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-269960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life 559 Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Samantha said: I'd like to induct a new Canadian member of the Worst News Opens Club... Bad 3D, vapid music... Earl Mann's VO is the only good thing about this. What was WIC thinking!? They spend a bit too much money on that Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-269961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTSC1980 112 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-270670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life 559 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 11 hours ago, LTSC1980 said: Yeah...that's pretty bad. They don't even know what they want to be. Fox News? Fox 59 News? 59 News? And Ariel being the theme too? Yeah... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-270680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5577 Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 2 hours ago, Yankees4life said: Yeah...that's pretty bad. They don't even know what they want to be. Fox News? Fox 59 News? 59 News? And Ariel being the theme too? Yeah... They're a CBS station on 59.1, Fox on 59.2. 59 News is the general brand, but with a more specific logo, depending on the time slot. Nothing new in the industry. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-270687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3951 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 They could probably tighten up the branding for each stream since FOX runs at different times than CBS for local news. For WTRF and WBOY, the generic approach is more necessary since they simulcast their news on their ABC subchannels alongside their respective CBS and NBC main feeds. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-270758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGSJenkins 435 Posted March 1, 2022 Author Share Posted March 1, 2022 WBKB 2022: I think they blew their entire budget for the year on that open. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-270776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaZone4K 2176 Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 15 hours ago, RGSJenkins said: WBKB 2022: I think they blew their entire budget for the year on that open. Wow that's bad! And wow that's a lot of network affiliations! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-270793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life 559 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 18 hours ago, iron_lion said: Wow that's bad! And wow that's a lot of network affiliations! This is what happens when you have a monopoly on a market. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-270830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3951 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 3 hours ago, Yankees4life said: This is what happens when you have a monopoly on a market. And when you're the smallest market in the country with a standalone news department. (unless KNOP North Platte has one too?) I can't put my finger on the lower third design, but i'm thinking it may be one of the default VMIX templates. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-270832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 517 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 8:10 PM, RGSJenkins said: WBKB 2022: I think they blew their entire budget for the year on that open. I don't want any station to get Gray's Honeycomb gfx ... but even that will be 1000x better than this. -- Matt Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-270838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTSC1980 112 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-271921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life 559 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 1 hour ago, LTSC1980 said: Why do they do this? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-271923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 517 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 2 hours ago, LTSC1980 said: I honestly don't know where to begin. This makes Glendive look like a Top 25 market. -- Matt Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-271927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 403 Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 On 2/8/2019 at 11:58 PM, Yankees4life said: This one is just...lazy Indeed-- when you bill your anchor team, you need to at least have pictures of them, either with their names or without (and you don't have to verbally bill their functions; WPRI Channel 12 in Providence, RI in 1992 [on what was then Channel 12 Eyewitness News, on the then-ABC station in that Rhode Island capital] had an effective one that had Ernie Anderson billing the anchor team of Walter Cryan, Karen Adams, John Flanders and Barry Diamond for the evening edition; Flanders and Diamond had video of their functions behind their images and names [Flanders w/weather, and Diamond on sports], and that made that evening edition opening in that New England capital work remarkably well, IMO). Here is that WPRI 1992 opening: Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-274006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTSC1980 112 Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-284528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHarry 727 Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Back in the 1970s, WTVN TV used to open with the camera showing their cheapo news set, playing James Bond music. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-284530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 403 Posted March 24, 2023 Share Posted March 24, 2023 On 10/12/2021 at 9:39 PM, VHSgoodiesWA said: The worst opening montage that KIMA/KEPR ever had...the first version of Action News. This is with the Battery music package that was used up until 2018 when Sinclair finally started transitioning them. The same montage had been used a year prior with a variant of the CBS Enforcer music package and a different announcer. It's not as choppy as I've seen in other videos, but the graphics scream "yuck"! Compared with KOMO and KATU at the same time, with the same owners, they treated these folks like the red-headed stepchild. I never knew up until now that KEPR was pronounced as it were a word (Keeper). Also, it seems like the anchors there introduced themselves backwards. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/3540-the-worst-news-opens-of-all-time/page/21/#findComment-284644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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