Weeters 1806 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 WITI (Milwaukee) current open I still refuse to believe this is real. It's some prank being played on them by some upset Steelers fan that works there. Right? Right?! :puke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAVY 10 Fan 232 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 I still refuse to believe this is real. It's some prank being played on them by some upset Steelers fan that works there. Right? Right?! :puke: The part right after the intro had me scared that Christina Aguilera's train wreck of a National Anthem rendition was about to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGSJenkins 432 Posted June 16, 2011 Author Share Posted June 16, 2011 WKBW's current opens. 5 & 6 PM: 11 PM: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Buck 35 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Yikes. That's REALLY cheap looking. And why are they only using one cut of MCTYW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oprah 10 Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTzCZ38kD-E WJKS 1995.....does not look like anything else I've seen from 1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGSJenkins 432 Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 KALB News Channel 5 open http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLlFpX68s68 A mix between happy people and WNBC's open, the music sounds silmiar to ESPN's Little League World Series theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmasters1 377 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 If you want to talk lame opening and lame station, try WYFF today. All dayparts are awful, but the morning and noon openings are the worst, and that female announcer in the morning and at noon doesn't help one bit. Worse yet, at commercial breaks, they repeat one part of the music over and over and over again. Stupid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABC5EyewitnessNewsCenter 0 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Here's a KSAT Noon open from '97: [YT]dQLAWok8GwQ[/YT] Scott Chapin is this open's ONLY saving grace. The cut of The One And Only they used sounds like a wounded cat. KSAT needs to use the New Generation themes like WPLG does. I've heard better cuts of The One & Only on YouTube resynchs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGSJenkins 432 Posted November 18, 2011 Author Share Posted November 18, 2011 WCTV 2004, more like 1994 Open: Close: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SterlingNorth 33 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 WUSA's "We don't want to use the Gannett standard open" cold-open is right up there with the other bad opens. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLT-DCA-ORF-PTI 86 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 WUSA's "We don't want to use the Gannett standard open" cold-open is right up there with the other bad opens. I'm in the DC market, I didnt realize they had such a horrible open. Hence the reason why I watch News 4. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SterlingNorth 33 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Honestly, when I first saw it, I thought maybe something there was broken and they couldn't use the open. Only when I saw it in use several days in a row (and using the regular -- but still bad -- Gannett opens at other times) did I realize this was deliberate. Even more amazingly, 11pm is the time where WUSA will occasionally not be last place, so this is the presentation they want people to see. Hooray for firing all the graphics departments and centralizing everything in Denver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhratbrat 423 Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 But yet even when WUSA had there own graphics by Giant Octopus they were using the four second open in there last graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SterlingNorth 33 Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 But yet even when WUSA had there own graphics by Giant Octopus they were using the four second open in there last graphics. I'm not sure they were. I do remember the shortened version of the they had, but it was still an actual open. And they did occasionally have a "cold open" with no music, but it was just occasionally. Now, the weekday 11pm show (the only show that even occasionally does ratings that aren't horrible) always runs that rather bad cold open. Thinking about it, was there even any reason for Gannett to drop the Giant Octopus graphics with their own standardized ones? The GO graphics were a standardization. They could have still outsourced everything to Denver, and just have them use the GO metrics. Was Gannett too cheap to even try to customize their graphics producing machine to work with GO graphics? (Never mind Denver's KUSA still has many customizations in its presentation.) I guess they save money by forcing all their stations (except KARE) to use the same theme music from Rampage... Anyway, I find it interesting that WUSA uses the no-open on its highest profile newscast, and that also they have not used the latest updates to the Gannett open and graphics for its other shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1806 Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I'm not sure they were. I do remember the shortened version of the they had, but it was still an actual open. And they did occasionally have a "cold open" with no music, but it was just occasionally. Now, the weekday 11pm show (the only show that even occasionally does ratings that aren't horrible) always runs that rather bad cold open. Thinking about it, was there even any reason for Gannett to drop the Giant Octopus graphics with their own standardized ones? The GO graphics were a standardization. They could have still outsourced everything to Denver, and just have them use the GO metrics. Was Gannett too cheap to even try to customize their graphics producing machine to work with GO graphics? (Never mind Denver's KUSA still has many customizations in its presentation.) I guess they save money by forcing all their stations (except KARE) to use the same theme music from Rampage... Anyway, I find it interesting that WUSA uses the no-open on its highest profile newscast, and that also they have not used the latest updates to the Gannett open and graphics for its other shows. AXIS can easily be set up to let individual stations have individual graphics packages. I believe I heard many of the FOX O&O's have custom templates on it (though they did come from the hub). This cold open is an obvious attempt at "being hip". It looks like it was produced by one of the internet newscasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 818 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I don't believe this one has been listed. Definitely one of the worse (especially for a station from Market #3) . WFLD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGSJenkins 432 Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 They went from this... , to this. It's KCRA 3 Reports, KCRA 3 News current opens with a "Breaking News First Alert." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 In the International Division, we may have a winner. At 1:29 is the open. It moves really slowly, has an abrupt cut of music, and the tackiest IFB you will ever see: http://www.youtu.be/Xpy4z5COz50 Meanwhile, the American Division has another entrant. This newscast I think lasted just under one year. At least they tried. (And they had the Palmer package for some reason.) http://www.youtu.be/zsp76ngd4pQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper550 268 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Meanwhile, the American Division has another entrant. This newscast I think lasted just under one year. At least they tried. (And they had the Palmer package for some reason.) http://www.youtu.be/zsp76ngd4pQ That was in 1999. You've got to be joking me, Wikipedia. That quality looks like 1989. Or worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 *shakes head* That is 1999, sadly. I wrote the WDYR page because it was missing. It's just small market, no fault of their own and credit to the guy for trying. There's other WDYR material on his channel too. The Palmer package is still in use — and it's 27 years old this year. WJET dropped it last year, making it a race between KESQ Palm Springs et al. and WPTY Memphis et al. to see who will drop it first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennTV1983 742 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 The Palmer package is still in use — and it's 27 years old this year. WJET dropped it last year, making it a race between KESQ Palm Springs et al. and WPTY Memphis et al. to see who will drop it first. For the record, WPTY stopped using PNP early last year. They have since decided to use no music at all for their newscasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jterry 43 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 *shakes head* That is 1999, sadly. I wrote the WDYR page because it was missing. It's just small market, no fault of their own and credit to the guy for trying. There's other WDYR material on his channel too. The Palmer package is still in use — and it's 27 years old this year. WJET dropped it last year, making it a race between KESQ Palm Springs et al. and WPTY Memphis et al. to see who will drop it first. Actually, Dyersburg, TN isn't even its own market. Its technically part of Memphis. WDYR was a small, brief startup I think by a local reporter that tried to recruit other locals into it. Obviously it never went anywhere and as said shut down within a year or so. ETA...if I had watched the whole video through - it goes through that a bit. Tommy Stafford - he had been around Memphis TV for many years before going off to do that, and then briefly returned to Memphis after at WPTY/WLMT. His wife Yvette Mena featured in there also was in Memphis TV for a good while too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Dillweed 73 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I'm not quite sure what you'd call this... The station otherwise simulcasts KABB/San Antonio's morning and 9pm newscasts. What KIDY is producing seems to be a local insert into the 9pm news hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGSJenkins 432 Posted May 26, 2012 Author Share Posted May 26, 2012 I'm not quite sure what you'd call this... The station otherwise simulcasts KABB/San Antonio's morning and 9pm newscasts. What KIDY is producing seems to be a local insert into the 9pm news hour. For a second, I thought the logo said kiddy FOX. And worse, their web address is myfoxzone.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper550 268 Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Let me present to you the horror that is, NBC North Dakota. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3ZbAqIyItg Even Look A would have been better than this; it's still in a bargain bin at a dollar store somewhere, I know it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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