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On 4/18/2022 at 4:23 PM, Wildish said:

WVUE being such a strong market leader deserved better. This is worse than WGNO's package. Basic, Bland, Boring. Tegna looks better than this even. They should have stayed with Raycom's graphics if they couldn't do better.

 

I've been holding back on commenting on the new WVUE graphics since it launched just to see what improvements or modifications would be made as usually once a package hits the air you see stations make a few tweaks to better fit the product and process. However, they've been saddled with technical issues and other mistakes that continue to this day (over a month in). Does anyone know what's going on? Specifically:

- they can't get through a newscast (or usually even a segment) without a mismatch between graphics, video, and story (happens all the time during the opening teases or the coming up teases)

- they can't get through a newscast (or usually even a segment) without an audio issue (you constantly hear an anchor start talking in the distance several seconds before their mic is brought up)

- the graphics seem to fire randomly, interrupting stories or live reports

- commercials inadvertently start during newscasts, and the talent seem unaware (during the weather hit, a commercial and a half played and David Bernard was still going as if he had no idea)

- yesterday during a weather hit in the 7am hour, the screen went black for about 2 minutes and came back to Nicondra doing her weather hit unaware (seen on both YouTube TV and my OTA DVR)

 

Before the graphics change, WVUE was on par with some of the national outlets, mistake-free and very well-produced. Now they're lucky to go a segment without a glitch of one sort or another. I feel bad for everyone that's there, you know they don't want this. But what is going on?

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25 minutes ago, EricTheEnthusiast said:

I've been holding back on commenting on the new WVUE graphics since it launched just to see what improvements or modifications would be made as usually once a package hits the air you see stations make a few tweaks to better fit the product and process. However, they've been saddled with technical issues and other mistakes that continue to this day (over a month in). Does anyone know what's going on? Specifically:

- they can't get through a newscast (or usually even a segment) without a mismatch between graphics, video, and story (happens all the time during the opening teases or the coming up teases)

- they can't get through a newscast (or usually even a segment) without an audio issue (you constantly hear an anchor start talking in the distance several seconds before their mic is brought up)

- the graphics seem to fire randomly, interrupting stories or live reports

- commercials inadvertently start during newscasts, and the talent seem unaware (during the weather hit, a commercial and a half played and David Bernard was still going as if he had no idea)

- yesterday during a weather hit in the 7am hour, the screen went black for about 2 minutes and came back to Nicondra doing her weather hit unaware (seen on both YouTube TV and my OTA DVR)

 

Before the graphics change, WVUE was on par with some of the national outlets, mistake-free and very well-produced. Now they're lucky to go a segment without a glitch of one sort or another. I feel bad for everyone that's there, you know they don't want this. But what is going on?

Sounds to me like the TDs aren’t used to automation!

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1 hour ago, pinghawi said:

Is WOWT changing it's graphics to the WMC graphics package?

This question comes up because on the station's website, there a background on the header that looks similar to that graphic pack.

 

Don't know if or when a graphic change will be in effect. Probably won't happen until after the station moves down the street to Blackstone (Kiewit) Plaza.

 

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2 hours ago, CircleSeven said:

This question comes up because on the station's website, there a background on the header that looks similar to that graphic pack.

 

Don't know if or when a graphic change will be in effect. Probably won't happen until after the station moves down the street to Blackstone (Kiewit) Plaza.

 

That...doesn't make any sense they already had a graphics change

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I know this is probably a lost cause considering Fairbanks is one of the smallest markets in the nation but when on earth is Gray going to do something with KTVF and sister station KXDF?? Seriously they've owned the stations since 2017 and have yet to do ANYTHING, no new sets or graphics yet KTVF is using the WMC graphics for weather, heck both are not even in HD yet!

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49 minutes ago, ATLNewsExpert said:

I know this is probably a lost cause considering Fairbanks is one of the smallest markets in the nation but when on earth is Gray going to do something with KTVF and sister station KXDF?? Seriously they've owned the stations since 2017 and have yet to do ANYTHING, no new sets or graphics yet KTVF is using the WMC graphics for weather, heck both are not even in HD yet!

 

Unlikely they'll do anything.

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KOLN/KGIN, KSNB and KNOP have all debuted new graphics. In the cases of KSNB and KNOP, both have switched to different flat variants of the “honeycomb” package.

 

KOLN/KGIN:

 

KSNB (note that the bottom-of-screen ID has KSNB’s city of license, York, listed where its callsign is supposed to be):

 

KNOP:

 

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15 minutes ago, T.L. Hughes said:

KOLN/KGIN, KSNB and KNOP have all debuted new graphics. In the cases of KSNB and KNOP, both have switched to different flat variants of the “honeycomb” package.

Took them long enough to make a flat package. Maybe there is hope for Gray’s graphics hub

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7 hours ago, T.L. Hughes said:

KOLN/KGIN, KSNB and KNOP have all debuted new graphics. In the cases of KSNB and KNOP, both have switched to different flat variants of the “honeycomb” package.

 

KOLN/KGIN:

 

KSNB (note that the bottom-of-screen ID has KSNB’s city of license, York, listed where its callsign is supposed to be):

 

KNOP:

 

The KOLN graphics aren't that bad for Gray standards, in fact their quite good. Perhaps WGCL and the Meredith stations will get something similar (likely in WGCL'S case,  new graphics and a rebrand might be in store with the new upcoming set )

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