Rtl2016 0 Posted October 24, 2009 Posted October 24, 2009 Check out the recent videos! These look astonishing! http://wcpo.com 7 Day Weather graphic: http://www.wcpo.com/media/files/cctvi_weather/wcpo-wsi/A_7DAY/611.jpg Another sample: http://www.wcpo.com/media/files/cctvi_weather/wcpo-wsi/A_TODAY/849.jpg
TennTV1983 807 Posted October 24, 2009 Posted October 24, 2009 Looking at the videos, it appears that they've dumped Right Here, Right Now for some production music (Go to the story "Pedestrian Struck by Car in Mt. Washington" under Videos).
semistatic 0 Posted October 25, 2009 Posted October 25, 2009 It's a Scripps group graphics package. IIRC they're centralizing graphics now with AXIS...... I couldn't see a lot - but it does look a lot like the package KNXV has been using for a few months
Rtl2016 0 Posted October 25, 2009 Author Posted October 25, 2009 Now WPTV's got the new graphics.. And they're exactly the same as WCPO's?! What is up with all of these centralized graphics now a days?? WPTV didn't even need this change.. I thought that Sripps was just going to give all their stations that don't have Renderon, Renderon graphics.. Not give ALL of their stations the same exact package..
Ntropolis 599 Posted October 25, 2009 Posted October 25, 2009 Now WPTV's got the new graphics Now that just looks wrong... So WXYZ's gonna get this? Orange is NOT their color.
abric 181 Posted October 25, 2009 Posted October 25, 2009 You can see and hear the new open under "House Fire In Wellington". For WPTV, IMO, this is a giant step backwards. The colors definitely don't go with West Palm Beach. Bad, bad bad.
TennTV1983 807 Posted October 25, 2009 Posted October 25, 2009 This is a horrible move that Scripps has made. Not just with the standardizing of graphics, but with the music also (switching to some production-style music). Will the madness ever end?
Hometown News 59 Posted October 25, 2009 Posted October 25, 2009 The graphics would look much better with simpler lower-thirds. The current ones are ugly and bulky. The color pallette and bulky L3's remind me of Entertainment Tonight, honestly. Not a good image for a newscast.
Jess 1116 Posted October 26, 2009 Posted October 26, 2009 Yeah, the L3s are way too big. They need to downsize or rework them. I thought they were working off a template WFTS was using, as that's where the hub is. Those opens unfortunately look WAY too template-y. Definite and sad step back for WPTV. I do kinda like the music (WPTV and WCPO's opens sound similar, I think it's a new group package but I don't know). It may sound like production music, yes. But wouldn't you have that to Gannett's "cat walking across the keyboard" music package?
d247 43 Posted October 26, 2009 Posted October 26, 2009 KJRH have been airing promos with the graphics. They look ok, they look better than what we currently get. The L3s would be better if it were a bit shorter and smaller.
KRAP-TV 146 Posted October 26, 2009 Posted October 26, 2009 This graphics package is pretty bad. Why are the L3rds so freaking big? And the colors are all wrong!
Rtl2016 0 Posted October 26, 2009 Author Posted October 26, 2009 This graphics package is pretty bad. Why are the L3rds so freaking big? And the colors are all wrong! They look okay for WCPO IMO since their logo is similar colors to the package... But for WPTV, All I can say is... GET THAT CRAP OUT! :ack:
socalnewsguy 11 Posted October 27, 2009 Posted October 27, 2009 You'd think Renderon would do better than that. It's just, ugly. Really, really, ugly.
bixpchiphead 105 Posted October 27, 2009 Posted October 27, 2009 And somwhere, the former ND of WCPO and VP in charge of news for Scripps, Al Schottelkotte, and longtime WEWS journalist Dorothy Fuldheim are both prolly spinning in their respective graves...
newsguy22 59 Posted October 27, 2009 Posted October 27, 2009 The open is the best part, and it's only decent at that. It looks too generic. Their last open did a nice job of combining some cool animation with regional icons (the map, the palm tree, etc.) Those could be some of the worst lower thirds I've seen in quite a while. Even the standard Raycom HD package looks better than that. And believe me, I am no fan of anything Raycom related. I am, however, a fan of pie.
swillh2k2 205 Posted October 27, 2009 Posted October 27, 2009 I'm guessing the searchlight at the very beginning is a reference to Scripps' lighthouse logo...
Alain 17 Posted October 28, 2009 Posted October 28, 2009 I'm guessing the searchlight at the very beginning is a reference to Scripps' lighthouse logo... Pretty faint searchlight at that... WPTV did not need the change at all, neither does WFTS, another awesome package in the trash! As for the lower third, it's more like a lower half.. :bang:
Mrtraveler01 738 Posted October 28, 2009 Posted October 28, 2009 KSHB's got them too. They're the same color and it does NOT look good at all. It's the same lower 3rd's as all the other Scripts stations. This is probably the worst of the standardization graphics so far. http://www.nbcactionnews.com/mediacenter/[email protected]
caliwxdude 254 Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 Just an FYI... looks like KJRH picked up these graphics and the new music package today as well. This is probably the one station where it's actually an improvement on the previous look and feel. Pretty fast work for a standardized rollout...
kjohnson 17 Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 [yt]apTK-ReWIhM[/yt] these are pathetically lame....the music is sucky too. If these are RenderOn they obviously came from RenderOn's bargain bin. This sucks. Nice, have the anchor names backward on the oversized lower-thirds. At least KSHB got that one right. So to Scripps, it makes sense to spend a lot of money on graphics at WPTV (twice) and then spend more money on cringe-worthy group-wide graphics? I might have to say that Gannett's graphics may be better (and I'm talking about the blue version; red, not so much).
tw-804 194 Posted October 30, 2009 Posted October 30, 2009 WPTV did not need the change at all, neither does WFTS, another awesome package in the trash! I agree with ya.
puck2008 0 Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 Just an FYI... looks like KJRH picked up these graphics and the new music package today as well. This is probably the one station where it's actually an improvement on the previous look and feel. Pretty fast work for a standardized rollout... Is it possible to get a cap? (Former Tulsan speakin here, been a while since I've seen 2News' output, if you want to call it that.)
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