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Today brought back Studio 6A for the KLG farewell.

I think the station. He likely was verbally promised to be replacement for Crabtree - who said he was retiring but then signed on for two more years. Unfortunately contracts usually don’t guarantee someone a slot or time frame anchoring. He was fill in anchoring, doing their “live center” and hosted what sounds like the public affairs show. A far cry from what he was likely expecting.

It looks good but I am curious where this is supposed to go? If you post it to Twitter or as an Instagram post it would be fine, but for Instagram stories where a lot of content goes the size wouldn’t fit.

Please discuss the new set over in this new thread in Sets & Studios.

Tracey Leong has apparently left WJZ in the beginning of March. She was the Weekend morning anchor and reporter. She’s moving back home to Los Angeles - no word if she’s continuing in the business or doing something else.

I’m surprised WMUR doesn’t clear the same program’s as WCVB as they’re they same market/affiliation/owner.

What replaces it on WCVB?

If they have the space, the driver here seemed to be the last chance to get a 30% federal tax credit - 2019 is the last year you can get the credit. Stations may set up their own farms if they can get tax breaks locally and perhaps have the ability to sell it back to the grid. The KNTV / KSTS building has been powered by renewable sources since they moved to their current facility. They don’t have a plant but you buy your energy from renewable suppliers that are hooked to the regular grid.

WBOC is installing a solar farm with 2,088 panels in the back lot of their property. It is designed to power their entire facility with 908 kw. Construction should start later this month and end in June. http://www.wboc.com/story/40173344/wboc-breaks-ground-on-solar-farm

This augmented reality weather is looking good. I wonder if they’re using Ross XPression or WSI for the AR tracking.

I like, WJZ just got two more, but they placed them along roads/complex interchanges.

I haven’t really paid attention to the NewSource produced packages but the ones from their affiliates are usually solid reporting. Also CNN may be turning right as they hired someone just from the White House as their political editor.

Watching KPIX now and they moved the active text area to the bug. Just doing a lookaround it appears of the news producing stations WCBS, KCBS, WBBM, KYW, KPIX, WBZ, WFOR and KDKA all made the switch. While KTVT, WCCO, KCNC and WJZ (of course) where the bar and text area is still 4:3 safe.

They stretched the lower thirds to where the bug is? WJZ has the live bug in the existing position aligned with where the text part of the Chyron starts. They could easily put the stock board or the radar in the area where topical graphics go on the left.

One thing I noticed during a timelapse of their studio construction is that they have a jib in the air? I’m curious are there any tracking or sweeping movement shots used in their newscast? The only thing I ever really see is a shot of the monitor in the up in the grid. You can see it here around 4:35.

There’s a whole playlist with much more here.

I imagine there’s still a bit of news sharing. From what I’ve seen on social media several NBC O&O meteorologists or reporters are appearing to report on local weather.

One major thing GMA needs to do is provide a template so stations have uniform tickers. That leaves stations up to their own devices causing a mish match of looks. They ABC BrandNet box they use has the capabilities to do CG (they do the time/temp) and DVE effects, so it should be able to handle a ticker.

From that video and others I’ve seen it looks like they’re just in color customized Otterbox Defender cases. Those things are pretty tough to break and sitting on the screen directly won’t hurt it. (I had mine do cart wheels down the stairs with no issues and once fall and hit the corner edge of piece of furniture).

Let’s remember having news drives viewers. Look at WWJ in Detroit, they don’t do news and it’s an after thought.

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Ed Ansin put some weird thing in the Trust for WHDH/WLVI and WSVN prohibiting their station from ever affiliating with or being purchased by NBC or any form of it in the future. You know like The 700 Club airing on ABC Family years after numerous ownership changes.

I wonder if they could find a location in NY and overlay the peacock and the digital chair line. I imagine they’re rolling out 4K cameras (when WNJU launched from 1WTC they installed a 4K camera for their use).

No legitimate news sources have covered it. A meteorite hits land fairly often and unless it’s a large size, like in Russia that blasted out windows, it probably isn’t news worthy. Ontop or the crisis in Venezuela news crews are likely to avoid the country for their safety or stay in urban areas.

Off the top of my head WDSU and WPTZ.

Is Sacramento an adjacent market over the mountains?