The Ever-Evolving Gray Graphics Situation...Thread

[tyrannical bastard 3443]

7 hours ago, MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie said:

Pretty much all the Meredith stations were rebranded to First Alert

WALA was an exception, since WKRG has used "First Alert" on their Doppler radar for about 20 years and their weather coverage is the "First Alert Storm Team"...WALA using "StormTracker" for about as long, going all they way back to Emmis.

Edited September 6, 2023 by tyrannical bastard
Updated info

[plzstandby 30]

KCTV is now using First Warn 5 Weather branding as of yesterday 

Edited September 6, 2023 by plzstandby

[Georgie56 3059]

And WBTV has debuted GrayONE, with the new logo.

[HSV cheesehead 88]

With the premier of Investigate TV+ coming on the 11th next week, does anyone think that a lot of stations will switch to the GrayONE graphics? I certainly would not find it surprising, given the publicity of the premier of Investigate TV+.

 

Also, WAFF in Huntsville has been airing promos that show pieces of the new graphics in the background of shots. This started in the early days of July, so they must be approaching the unveiling of the new graphics, hence my theory of graphics switch on the 11th.

 

Thoughts?

[GoldenShine9 1509]

2 hours ago, plzstandby said:

KCTV is now using First Warn 5 Weather branding as of yesterday 

 

There is another station in the market with the First Alert branding? Could that be why they have a non-standard branding?

[noggi 600]

4 minutes ago, GoldenShine9 said:

 

There is another station in the market with the First Alert branding? Could that be why they have a non-standard branding?

I think KMBC is the First Alert station in Kansas City

[AaronQ 259]

17 hours ago, TennTV1983 said:

No new switches to report, but apparently WBTV has a new logo now - which hasn't made it on air yet (this came from their VUit page).

This is different from the one @Axiom81 shared a few months ago, but the basics are about the same.

Apparently WBTV got the GrayOne graphics today along with the new logo. 

 

[ScottSchell 268]

3 hours ago, noggi said:

I think KMBC is the First Alert station in Kansas City

That’s correct KMBC uses the First Alert branding.

[tylerSC 49]

21 hours ago, TennTV1983 said:

No new switches to report, but apparently WBTV has a new logo now - which hasn't made it on air yet (this came from their VUit page).

This is different from the one @Axiom81 shared a few months ago, but the basics are about the same.

I am glad they changed their plan and decided to keep the legacy 3 channel branding in the new logo. WBTV has a strong familiar heritage as Channel 3 going back to the analog era as the first TV station in the Carolinas. Although they did eliminate the CBS logo from the new brand.

Edited September 7, 2023 by tylerSC

[Georgie56 3059]

Standard open:

 

On Your Side Tonight:

 

[compubit 670]

I’m liking their implementation - mostly due to not using the extra bold fonts everywhere. (Though a little mixed case text wouldn’t be too bad).

 

My biggest complaint on the font is that the M looks out of place, as the inside doesn’t appear to even go halfway down the letter…

 

Jim

[tyrannical bastard 3443]

1 hour ago, compubit said:

I’m liking their implementation - mostly due to not using the extra bold fonts everywhere. (Though a little mixed case text wouldn’t be too bad).

 

My biggest complaint on the font is that the M looks out of place, as the inside doesn’t appear to even go halfway down the letter…

 

Jim

Agreed. Fix the "M" and I could tolerate the font.

 

It just has that Nexstar vibe to it based on that one package (that WSPA also uses).  I really wish Gray would have sprung for a better font.

[MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 743]

The M is so much tolerable than Monserrat's G's that a lot of Nexstar stations use

[ttvn2000 318]

On 9/5/2023 at 11:02 PM, TennTV1983 said:

No new switches to report, but apparently WBTV has a new logo now - which hasn't made it on air yet (this came from their VUit page).

This is different from the one @Axiom81 shared a few months ago, but the basics are about the same.

Not to solution it here - but they could have leaned into the “3 as a B” thing and done something like this…

[groupwfan 95]

16 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Agreed. Fix the "M" and I could tolerate the font.

 

It just has that Nexstar vibe to it based on that one package (that WSPA also uses).  I really wish Gray would have sprung for a better font.

Probably fonts that their stations' O&O siblings would use.

[T.L. Hughes 746]

9 hours ago, ttvn2000 said:

Not to solution it here - but they could have leaned into the “3 as a B” thing and done something like this…

Basically, an homage to their 1978–83 logo:

[tyrannical bastard 3443]

WALA in Mobile has gone GrayOne as of 4pm yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyX76AamMjY

 

The lower thirds (and font changed) but much of the existing package remains the same. 

Being a former Meredith station, it's basically the same package GrayOne was based on.

 

It's a nice change over the canned Meredith look they forced on their stations at the time, even though it uses the same color scheme.

 

 

Edited September 9, 2023 by tyrannical bastard

[Denver Murray 9]

WWBT NBC 12 will reveal their new GrayOne graphics at 4:30 a.m. Monday (tomorrow morning!)  I was able to confirm this by someone I know who works at the station.  They will be using a red theme, similar to Atlanta. Their "livestream" graphic is already up, so here is a first look before they officially change tomorrow. 

[ScottSchell 268]

WWBT has the GrayOne graphics now. 

 

[LexTVandRadio 412]

New WIS logo. 

[tw-804 190]

2 hours ago, ScottSchell said:

WWBT has the GrayOne graphics now. 

 

 

WHOA!! Wasn't expecting Stephen Arnold's Unite package (one of my faves) in Richmond. Plus, it's gonna be weird seeing red graphics (outside of breaking news) on NBC12 instead of blue.

Plus, someone should update its sister station WUPV's listing on the NMSA. They dropped Inergy years ago (they used The Rock along with WWBT).

[MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 743]

They seem to be doing 1-2 stations a week with the GrayONE rollout.. 

[Denver Murray 9]

WIS-TV Columbia looks REALLY good.  While I like NBC 12 WWBT Richmond, I am kind of disappointed with all the red.  I mean, that's something that Cleveland 19 News would do.  The blue colors in the background with WIS with the red in their logo looks fantastic.

 

[Georgie56 3059]

WIS has launched GrayONE.

[TennTV1983 742]

More of WWBT's implementation of GrayONE in action: