Mrtraveler01 737 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 I was watching clips of KGO in San Francisco and I noticed that they got a new graphics package. It's something that we were talking about in a thread a while back but I couldn't find it. In my opinion these new graphics aren't as good as their old ones were. In fact, I think they look like a really cheap knockoff of WLS. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjohnson 15 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 It's some sort of weird hybrid between WLS and their old graphics. It doesn't work. Classic case of leaving well enough alone. Why don't they just use WLS's graphics? It would be a better move than what they've got right now. I wonder why they made the change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
News24/7 3 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 This is quite old news, they've been using this package since january Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrtraveler01 737 Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 This is quite old news' date=' they've been using this package since january[/quote'] Sorry I didn't know. This is the first time I saw them, I remember a forum a while back where we rumored that they would change their graphics but we never found out about it when we did. I still think they look cheap for a market like SF and in my opinion WLS's graphics don't work in SF especially a knockoff of them like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctmajka 108 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Oh those are just awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstNews8 13 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Wow, what a horrible rip-off of WLS's Hothaus grfx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Que 73 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 [yt]ekYKpct_d6M&hd=1[/yt] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
News24/7 3 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I should cap some more, thanks for posting my cap^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntropolis 593 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Gotta be GO... looks like a WABC-WTVG/WWSB hybrid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
who?cares 253 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 i kinda like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliwxdude 252 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Gotta be GO... looks like a WABC-WTVG/WWSB hybrid. I'm 99.9% sure this was an in-house job. It's definitely not Giant Octopus, that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evening Magazine 18 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Bug looks like a copycat WLS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess 1110 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 It's elements from the WLS package combined with elements from the WABC package with some KABC thrown in for spice. I have to ask - is that Al Vanik doing the voiceover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMA 135 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I think sometimes stations only get the opens and fullscreens done professionally...the open id alot like WWSB, I wouldn't be surprised if it was GO. The L3's aren't too good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctmajka 108 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 I think the open was made by G.O., and everything else was done in-house with elements made for the open. the L3's and bug are just awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evening Magazine 18 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 I think the open was made by G.O., and everything else was done in-house with elements made for the open. the L3's and bug are just awful. GO could have made the fullscreen as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfomspphl 453 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 KGO has a long 30+ year history of favoring in-house design more often than not -- and for most of those years in-house built sets. Should have left well enough alone with the old graphics. They were clean, forward thinking and classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evening Magazine 18 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 KGO has a long 30+ year history of favoring in-house design more often than not -- and for most of those years in-house built sets. Should have left well enough alone with the old graphics. They were clean, forward thinking and classic. Agreed, i'm not as big of a fan of in-house work as I used to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad 276 Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Well I'm gonna take some excerpts from another thread I recently started about this, I had no idea we had a topic for this already, lol. Searching does help huh?, lol. Anyway I think it looks a lot like Giant Octopus as the opening Circle 7 Animation is just like WABC's animation, and also has very similar elements to WABC.. The Circle 7 logo, is also now very similar to KABC too with the ABC ball on the lower hand side of the Circle 7. It is also just as large as KABC's Circle 7 as well. Some elements (very few) look like WLS's Hothaus in a very minuscule way... I guess its because of the bug that they use, that has the orange wave and glow to it. WLS's bug is very similar too. Either way its kinda a good new refreshed look for them. Better than the plain look they had before, the newscast is still a bit "bland", I guess it doesn't have all of the fluff and hype like their sister down south does, I guess Northern California or "NorCal" is not as hip as SoCal, haha. KGO always gets right to the point (hard news) with their stories as opposed to KABC... Here is WABC's Open for a comparison: [yt]lgI4J5h7RMg[/yt] And now look at KGO's Open: [yt]ekYKpct_d6M[/yt] Very similar opens and elements, it really does look like a Giant Octopus intro at least, perhaps the L3s were done in house but the intro certainly looks like WABC's a bit... If you look at the two intros closely you'll see that there are several very similar elements, so the Lower Thirds perhaps may be done in house, but the intros are definitely Giant Octopus, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABCEyewitnessNews 0 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 It's elements from the WLS package combined with elements from the WABC package with some KABC thrown in for spice. I have to ask - is that Al Vanik doing the voiceover? Al Vanik has never done any voiceover work for KGO. Richard Gebhardt has been KGO's voiceover since about 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hometown News 11 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 The L3's could use some more visual depth, because they look a little cartoonish. But the package as a whole looks great. Nice job by KGO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsguy22 59 Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 i kinda like it. i agree... looks good to me. i don't see what all the fuss is about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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