ED2 136 Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 On 12/5/2020 at 12:44 PM, bmasters1 said: At the 23:57 mark of this NewsActive3 retrospective, a new candidate for one of the worst-- an early edition opening from WTWO Newschannel 2 where the entire opening is in song, and there is no announcer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8yyfpxhpNM Oh my goodness, that was terrible. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yankees4life 299 Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 24 minutes ago, ED2 said: Oh my goodness, that was terrible. I wonder what kind of mushrooms the directors were smoking to conjure that up... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ED2 136 Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Yankees4life said: I wonder what kind of mushrooms the directors were smoking to conjure that up... It just feels like they actually ran an image promo instead of a news open by accident. But it wasn't... lol 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yankees4life 299 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Is this a movie or a newscast? Who knows but those who run WHIZ https://youtu.be/ueiJ6XfaRRE Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ABC 7 Denver 927 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 2 hours ago, Yankees4life said: Is this a movie or a newscast? Who knows but those who run WHIZ https://youtu.be/ueiJ6XfaRRE It doesn't sound like they even own a license for The Rock. SAM needs to sue them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yankees4life 299 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 15 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said: It doesn't sound like they even own a license for The Rock. SAM needs to sue them. That's even worse Using a good theme but don't even pay for the license and their news open looks like something out of a movie. I think we know their priorities Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tyrannical bastard 2,197 Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 On 12/6/2020 at 4:37 PM, ED2 said: It just feels like they actually ran an image promo instead of a news open by accident. But it wasn't... lol And this looks like it was made in the era of the "Doppler Dead Zone" promo.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJH-nvnCqLI Talk about trying too hard for this market. The GM at the time, Duane Lammers later went on to start his own retrans company, Max Retrans that totally bungled all of the Sinclair sidecars last year, and eventually they all ended up being fined by the FCC for "bad faith" negotiations. Yes, there are others than Jeff Zucker who fall upwards... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ED2 136 Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 6 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said: And this looks like it was made in the era of the "Doppler Dead Zone" promo.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJH-nvnCqLI Talk about trying too hard for this market. The GM at the time, Duane Lammers later went on to start his own retrans company, Max Retrans that totally bungled all of the Sinclair sidecars last year, and eventually they all ended up being fined by the FCC for "bad faith" negotiations. Yes, there are others than Jeff Zucker who fall upwards... That was... uh... quite something! Are all their station promos like this? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tyrannical bastard 2,197 Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, ED2 said: That was... uh... quite something! Are all their station promos like this? This was way back in 2005, so much has changed. For a station like that, the staff has probably turned several times over. Here's a few more from WTWO. There's a couple doozies in there including another sung morning show open(7:36), and one with a dog getting up in the morning (9:25).... https://youtu.be/4l-kVLTlVNI Edited December 15, 2020 by tyrannical bastard 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yankees4life 299 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Someone was asleep at the wheel as the VO was muted Quote Link to post Share on other sites
susquvalleywgal 352 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 7 hours ago, Yankees4life said: Someone was asleep at the wheel as the VO was muted I have so many questions: 1) Does he always do the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of every newscast? If so, Sinclair says you're hired. 2) Happy Festivas! LOL jk. -- Matt 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RGSJenkins 336 Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 The graphics in this open was slowed down to 0.5 x speed to fit the music and you can see the jerkiness of it being slowed down. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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