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Viper V.1 was commed by WWOR for their 05 GFX revamp (and shortly before their My9 days kicked in) after several years of stock music dating to 1998; it was used until 2009, and in that time frame, sisters WFLD and WGHP used it. WFLD replaced Streaming News with it; this didn't last long before the OSI music came in; WGHP replaced Monster News (which is a misleading name, the package doesn't sound aggressive at all), but the same situation happened there.

The only Thunder Truck I know of is a converted tow truck the SWAT Kats used to try and fend off a multi-armed alien named Mutilor from stealing all their planet's water.

Don't forget, Rogers also joined KYW during their ill-fated revamp back in 91, displacing Linda Gialanella; he left in 97, just before the EWN return in 98; Tom LaMaine replaced him for a while before moving to the mornings; not sure who became their evening weathercaster then. (I'm guessing that how he got to WCBS.)

I've also noticed two things: one, there's now one of those overhead cameras on a track in the South Mountain set, like WABC, and the Traffic Center still has wall decor matching the graphics from 2005-ish, when the set debuted; you'd think they would've changed that by now.

I have no clue. I'm guessing it must be a new PHL17 logo; maybe HulkieMatt (that's what I'm calling him now, to distinguish him from you, WGALMatt) would know.

Mike Landess from KUSA? One of their older 80s-90s anchors? How'd he end up there, Gannett corporate didn't like him or something?

I have Comcast/Xfinity out here in the woods of NW NJ, and we get it. I wonder why it isn't a "must-carry" yet, considering it's WCBS' duopoly partner.

They haven't done anything meaningful with TCN since they dumped Art Fennell and the CN8 brand; it's been used primarily for overflow or not-as-important sports from CSN. Let's hope that WWCAU maybe can use TCN as a showcase for locally-produced programming, they could do that.

Cox isn't really big on standards- the closest stuff they have is the blue-and-gold color scheme used at several stations (though variants of one graphics package were used in the mid-to-late 90s by WSOC, WFTV, WHIO and KIRO).

I like best the KVUE cut, but how WTSP uses the "Da-da-da" rapid thing right after it.

I'm not sure, it's likely Hulkie/Matt would know.

Reporter Will Lewis and a cameraman named Albert (who has been at WFMZ since 1995) visited my school, Warren County Tech, today for a feature on our robotics team; the report will air tonight at 6PM and will also appear online. I also gleaned several bits of info: WFMZ is equipped with 8 live trucks, and apparently are now using 5-6 LiveU backpacks; the PPL Center studio is apparently accompanied by a smaller newsroom, while fiber-optics are indeed the link between PPL and South Mountain. They also use Quantel for editing, as opposing to our TV/Radio program using Sony Vegas.

Maybe the radiation in the air from those nuclear tests decades ago is starting to affect people's minds, like making people think Pauly Shore is funny.

This "Blue Helio" thing seems to be like the Bigfoot of these boards- no one can find concrete proof of their existence, and yet rumors swirl about.

I've seen a lot of that stuff over on TVARK, with additional analysis on Transdiffusion; ITV's gone down hill.

Yeah, now it just seems like overkill. They kinda jumped the gun here.

I wasn't able to see the noon newscast, but I did see the netcast; the set wasn't mentioned, but you could see what looked like a WABC-style monitor grid BG and the reflections off the windows.

Oh yeah, I reported this in the shoutbox a couple days back, but it warrants repeating: WTXF has stationed a translator relay on South Mountain as of December 29th; I discovered via a add-on scan. I'm hoping the other Philly stations will soon do the same.

Found this documentary from Anglia ITV, back before generic branding, from 1998, about how their news operation functioned: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KLx7_1vx8RA

Well, I remember how, until the mid 2000s, WPIX always had a funny picture quality on Comcast in NJ; even when we moved to Warren County, the picture looked funny until around the time they became The CW11. I'm guessing it was something in their link to Comcast. Maybe that's what's happening, only on DTV.

What I want to know is why they have a comet(?!), hit the EWN logo.

It was a general report about all the snow we got today.

Saw on the 6PM report what looked like a portion of the new set; a reporter was stationed outside the PPL center, and I could see a giant video wall playing promos on a loop for the 4PM report, and a glass desk with the logo on it; it was in the background, so I couldn't see more.

It should be noted the original set was recycled from the failed soap "The City", which was created to salvage the failure of "Loving", with some of the surviving characters from "The Loving Murders" arc moving over to that show.