IceManNYR 222 Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I'm wondering why in the last 6 months or so WNBC has gone back do doing most live remotes in 4:3 SD when every other local channel with HD newscasts does reports in 16:9 SD or HD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1812 Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I'm wondering why... WNBC You answered your own question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsJunkie247 1 Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I'm wondering why in the last 6 months or so WNBC has gone back do doing most live remotes in 4:3 SD when every other local channel with HD newscasts does reports in 16:9 SD or HD? I've noticed that as well and it seems like it is only the live shots and not the rest of the video in the B-roll. I didn't even wonder why...because then again, it is WNBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjohnson 15 Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Good grief. Here I am, in flyover country, and we can manage this one. Every station in St. Louis began doing 16:9 remotes immediately upon going HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazynetjunkie 34 Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Good grief. Here I am, in flyover country, and we can manage this one. Every station in St. Louis began doing 16:9 remotes immediately upon going HD. This is an NBC O&O we're talking about.. I can tell you from experience that most NBC O&O's are definitely NOT what they used to be anymore.. WMAQ in Chicago is loaded with so many technical problems, errors, and mistakes on their newscasts but they're never fixed. Some of these problems have been on-air for even a couple years. You see these same problems everyday when you turn on their newscasts and you can tell people there about it but you know it'll never get fixed.. It's either nobody at the station cares about those things at all, nobody cares to bother fixing them, nobody knows how to fix them there anymore, or the budget isn't there anymore to do anything. Of all the main Chicago news stations, WMAQ probably has the least amount of employees.. The people there are being driven and squeezed to do the most possible that management can get out of them so the motivation, time, and energy just isn't there anymore to do and fix the "extras".. Heck, much of the cubicles in the WMAQ newsroom are empty these days so they "decorated" much of them with random office supplies, papers, and fake photos just to make it look like it's a newsroom fully being used since it's the backdrop of their main studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad 276 Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Yeah, thats pretty suprising to see them using 4:3 Live Remotes still, why not just convert to SD Widescreen? Like most of the stations do? They've done it before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMA 135 Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 They had 16:9 SD Widescreen for 3 years, after they went HD. I don't know why it changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProButtonPusher 230 Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Equipment malfunction + Budget cuts = 4:3 live shots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjohnson 15 Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 This is an NBC O&O we're talking about.. I can tell you from experience that most NBC O&O's are definitely NOT what they used to be anymore.. WMAQ in Chicago is loaded with so many technical problems, errors, and mistakes on their newscasts but they're never fixed. Some of these problems have been on-air for even a couple years. You see these same problems everyday when you turn on their newscasts and you can tell people there about it but you know it'll never get fixed.. It's either nobody at the station cares about those things at all, nobody cares to bother fixing them, nobody knows how to fix them there anymore, or the budget isn't there anymore to do anything. Of all the main Chicago news stations, WMAQ probably has the least amount of employees.. The people there are being driven and squeezed to do the most possible that management can get out of them so the motivation, time, and energy just isn't there anymore to do and fix the "extras".. Heck, much of the cubicles in the WMAQ newsroom are empty these days so they "decorated" much of them with random office supplies, papers, and fake photos just to make it look like it's a newsroom fully being used since it's the backdrop of their main studio. And we wonder why Zucker still has a job. He's really screwed up the NBC O&O group. Great insight, Lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceManNYR 222 Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 WNBC had a live 16:9 remote from NJ tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthonyz 26 Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 I wonder that myself. WNBC's on-field live shoots are always SD WS when in 16:9. This all started with LXNY at 5 started back in September. Sometimes it is a signal issue but why all the time. My guess is a change in the control room for LXNY@5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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