TennTV1983 741 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 As of this morning, beginning with AMHQ Early, The Weather Channel has started phasing in a complete and total overhaul of its on-air graphics. The first noticeable change is that the reverse L-bar is gone, the lower 3rds have been redone, and the weather ticker at the bottom of the screen is now smaller. Also, the maps have been updated. Any other observations, thoughts, and opinions are welcomed. UPDATE: The Intellistar graphics during Local on the 8s are currently unchanged; however, the typeface has been changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOWERCASE GUY 241 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I like it. Never was a fan of the L bar. I felt like way too much stuff was going on at once. However, the old package did age well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrh1985 56 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Looks like the LDL from the Watch TWC App Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 The graphics remind me of Tegna and CNN/HLN. As far as the ticker, it’s fine, except that overscan May take it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightynine 286 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 L-Bar had become completely useless with the dropping of the ticker and putting only radar and almanac on the sidebar, so ditching it is a great idea. So far, good upgrade IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehatt493 31 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I like the idea of the graphics overhaul. I like switching from a dull light blue to a dark blue/gray...but the typeface needs work. Akko suited them much better. Pairing the old graphical elements with what looks like Roboto Condensed is, uh, bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 3048 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Looks pretty good and cleaner. The Tegna influence is noticeable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.L. Hughes 742 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 57 minutes ago, Georgie56 said: Looks pretty good and cleaner. The Tegna influence is noticeable. The redesign of the LDL makes it so that they don't really have to make the LDL's background translucent during TWC "long-form" programming in prime time and on weekends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1675 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I’m always curious how the update the hundreds of Intellistars seemlessly overnight. However I do miss the radar on the side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DellFan3030 1 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I like how The Weather Channel always makes interesting changes to their graphics whenever they do them. It makes them unique compared to other channels (including ones that deal with the weather). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCAUTVNBC10 408 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 55 minutes ago, rkolsen said: I’m always curious how the update the hundreds of Intellistars seemlessly overnight. However I do miss the radar on the side. My guess is these days, they're pushed out like mobile phone updates. Probably a lot more involved in the WeatherStar days though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelicanGuy 117 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I definitely like it. It's much better on the eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCAUTVNBC10 408 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 I'm glad they went back to topo maps for at least the live radar. Never understood why they went with flat maps for everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightynine 286 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 1 hour ago, rkolsen said: I’m always curious how the update the hundreds of Intellistars seemlessly overnight. However I do miss the radar on the side. I think it's pretty similar to a Windows Update, and the Intellistar knows what to do. Last time, it went from one graphics set to another seamlessly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehatt493 31 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 19 minutes ago, mightynine said: I think it's pretty similar to a Windows Update, and the Intellistar knows what to do. Last time, it went from one graphics set to another seamlessly. So starting in 2010 or so, The Weather Channel started displaying their national "lower display line" under all programming instead of leaving the job up to local STARs. Notice after the cut-over, the national weather remains on the bottom and the local weather doesn't yet appear. Those STARs are taken offline for the update. I think mine (on the SD side, at the time when still having a separate SD and HD feed was widespread) took about an hour to update. Maybe the new models in use today that push out SD and HD simultaneously are quicker. Another thing I've noticed, any normal commercial gets a squeezeback so the constant LDL doesn't cover up anything important, but they don't do this for their own promos, so the bottom is always cut off. The closest comparison I can make is to an ESPN/FS1 situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadcastfan9751 136 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Looks pretty good, especially with the L-bar gone. Also, the SD Intellistars are using a larger LDL similar to what they had before: https://youtu.be/36s7peooSG8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DellFan3030 1 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 4 minutes ago, broadcastfan9751 said: Looks pretty good, especially with the L-bar gone. Also, the SD Intellistars are using a larger LDL similar to what they had before: https://youtu.be/36s7peooSG8 The modern outlook with their channel seems pretty interesting, now that I finally looked at since July of this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2034 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Goodbye to the awful white maps without any geography...they won't be missed at all. Though my local headend still has never upgraded the HD channel for local conditions, so I'm still stuck watching the SD feed for local conditions (but at least the text on that screen pretty much acknowledges that it's probably going to be stretched out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrh1985 56 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Looked at it during longform tonight, it looks the same. So, hopefully no more LDL disappearing during longform like it used to from time to time! Rollseyes! The only thing I'm disappointed about is they still haven't figured out how to do local LDLs on DISH. All I had to do on roku is put in my Zip and I got a local LDL like what cable users have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABC 7 Denver 1547 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Looks like a blatant TEGNA ripoff. Blah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Journalist 893 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Man, I'll miss those 2013 era graphics and all of its delicious Akko goodness. They were pretty good at cleaning up the visual nightmare that was TWC of the past, and the 2013 era design language still looks aesthetically pleasing up to now. I'm surprised they were able to keep up the consistency for this long, but alas. The new ones are...serviceable. They could've chose a better font than Roboto; but hey, it works. At least it ain't DIN. The horror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 839 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Not DIN! Oh the humanity... I still wish they had a 24 hour weather wheel... you knew what time to tune in for a storm update or a tropical update no matter the hour... their graphics were unbelievably simple at the time though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DellFan3030 1 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 15 minutes ago, ns8401 said: Not DIN! Oh the humanity... I still wish they had a 24 hour weather wheel... you knew what time to tune in for a storm update or a tropical update no matter the hour... their graphics were unbelievably simple at the time though... Maybe they didn't think of putting it in because they didn't thought a lot of people were watching their channel at 2 in the morning waiting for the latest hurricane updates when most of them are sleeping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 839 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 8 hours ago, DellFan3030 said: Maybe they didn't think of putting it in because they didn't thought a lot of people were watching their channel at 2 in the morning waiting for the latest hurricane updates when most of them are sleeping. Yeah but the whole point of the channel used to literally be weather forecasts on a rotation with segments at set times every hour... not reality based programming with some weather here and there... I get that the internet can give you a forecast but it doesn’t explain it nearly as well as a human... so they could have doubled down on the cool explanations but instead they started showing “when weather changed history” while tornado outbreaks were happening... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DellFan3030 1 Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 26 minutes ago, ns8401 said: Yeah but the whole point of the channel used to literally be weather forecasts on a rotation with segments at set times every hour... not reality based programming with some weather here and there... I get that the internet can give you a forecast but it doesn’t explain it nearly as well as a human... so they could have doubled down on the cool explanations but instead they started showing “when weather changed history” while tornado outbreaks were happening... I could get that they should have a Local on the 8s or something like that, if people were watching the channel at say, 2am. I find LOT8s to still be very fascinating despite TWC taking less depth on them for a while now. Although at least the news programming is somewhat relatable to weather stuff. I also agree with you on how the Internet doesn't give you exact detail on weather compared to stuff like the local news or even The Weather Channel. Which is why I felt disappointed on not having The Weather Channel on my cable package when FiOS took it off from it in 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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