Casey Buck 35 Posted August 8, 2021 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.
Yankees4life 561 Posted August 8, 2021 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...
Spring Rubber 714 Posted October 11, 2021 Posted October 11, 2021 22 minutes ago, LTSC1980 said: I would argue that the open might have been the best part of the newscast...
MediaZone4K 2233 Posted October 11, 2021 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
VHSgoodiesWA 309 Posted October 13, 2021 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.
Samantha 2898 Posted February 5, 2022 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!?
nathannah 2493 Posted February 5, 2022 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.
Yankees4life 561 Posted February 6, 2022 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
Yankees4life 561 Posted February 25, 2022 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...
24994J 5619 Posted February 25, 2022 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.
tyrannical bastard 4018 Posted February 28, 2022 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.
RGSJenkins 435 Posted March 1, 2022 Author Posted March 1, 2022 WBKB 2022: I think they blew their entire budget for the year on that open.
MediaZone4K 2233 Posted March 1, 2022 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!
Yankees4life 561 Posted March 2, 2022 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.
tyrannical bastard 4018 Posted March 2, 2022 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.
susquvalleywgal 520 Posted March 2, 2022 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
Yankees4life 561 Posted April 3, 2022 Posted April 3, 2022 1 hour ago, LTSC1980 said: Why do they do this?
susquvalleywgal 520 Posted April 3, 2022 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
bmasters1 408 Posted June 8, 2022 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:
DirtyHarry 727 Posted March 21, 2023 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.
bmasters1 408 Posted March 24, 2023 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.
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