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WRC-TV Broadcasting from a Temp Set


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WRC-TV/NBC 4 in Washington has been broadcasting from a temporary set since Monday afternoon saying that their current set is being upgraded.

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They will be on that temporary set for a few weeks. They will probably be back in their other studio by March.

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God I hope so. There's only so many times I can see the old MSNBC logo on a CRT monitor and continue to take Jim Vance seriously.

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God I hope so. There's only so many times I can see the old MSNBC logo on a CRT monitor and continue to take Jim Vance seriously.

 

That's your qualification for trusting someone?

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From what I understand, they are getting a new set. They said "We are finally going to go 16X9 HD. Our new home is going to look incredible" on their 'News4 Today' Facebook page. I'd say that confirms a new set!

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A picture of their temp set is attached. It is cropped from their 4:3 SD snow closings screen, so those are not blue HD sidebars that you see on the left and right. They have had the temporary set for a few years from what I've seen. They mainly use it when they have a panel of people answering phones (which are usually on the desk), like recently a charity (I think it was the Red Cross, I might be wrong) used it for getting aid from area viewers for Haiti.

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t is cropped from their 4:3 SD snow closings screen, so those are not blue HD sidebars that you see on the left and right.

 

It was rough watching them when they were in wall-to-wall coverage of the storm(s). Everyone else had glorious, glorious information scrolling everywhere while 4 had a their crappy 4:3 set squeezed down to pretty much nothing while they put up the ticket and useless sidebars. However, I think they saw the biggest increase in viewers during storm coverage, did they not?

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It's been like this for years: While the main news studio gets a makeover (probably for HD), they do the news temporarily from another studio or better yet, the newsroom.

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