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Post by bostonmediaguy on Jul 13, 2009 15:03:23 GMT -5
A tweet of interest:
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Post by fluffernutter523 on Jul 13, 2009 15:24:03 GMT -5
I'm hoping for the end of July. I didn't know it was so much work to get the new graphics on the air. They'll probably wait for Mish to leave so they won't have to bother training her with the new graphics.
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Post by bostonmediaguy on Jul 21, 2009 11:59:43 GMT -5
Noticed that the doppler radar has been upgraded (though not broadcast in HD yet).
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Post by msaccone on Jul 21, 2009 12:12:37 GMT -5
Ken Barlow tweeted last night he was being trained on how to use the new graphics.
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Post by fluffernutter523 on Jul 25, 2009 15:17:59 GMT -5
Just got back from vacation and noticed the new doppler graphics. I was hoping to see the weather graphics had already premiered.
While I was on vacation in the Ft. Myers area (market 62, we are market 7) I was surprised to see how far ahead their market is compared to ours with HD technology. I did not catch much of the news, but from time to time I flipped around to look at their local news. WINK-TV (CBS) stood out to me, they had HD field cameras! And it got me thinking how bad WBZ is with their HD technology. They cannot even record studio promos for upcoming news shows in HD. I cannot speak for everyone, but I know that whatever station upgrades their field cameras to HD I will be calling my new news station.
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Post by rbreton on Aug 11, 2009 8:25:07 GMT -5
Tonight at 5pm the new HD wx graphics will premiere.
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Post by bostonmediaguy on Aug 11, 2009 8:56:32 GMT -5
Good to hear. Perhaps they can shrink the banners to a similar size of the 'Live' and 'SkyEye' graphics. There's no need to take up valuable HD 'real estate' with 18pt. fonts and a large CBS eye.
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Post by fluffernutter523 on Aug 11, 2009 10:07:51 GMT -5
Lets hope they get rid of that awful, ugly virtual weather set. Keep it simple, I'll watch 7 if I want an over-the-top virtual weather set.
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Post by rbreton on Aug 11, 2009 11:24:47 GMT -5
Lets hope they get rid of that awful, ugly virtual weather set. Keep it simple, I'll watch 7 if I want an over-the-top virtual weather set. Obviously they will be, now that their graphics are going to be in 16x9 HD. They didn't use it in the same way 7 did either... it was more of a placeholder for their 4x3 SD graphics... |
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Post by fluffernutter523 on Aug 11, 2009 16:22:54 GMT -5
The graphics look great, so nice to get rid of that light blue eye sore. Why is WBZ's weather so fast... it seems to be about a minute while the other stations seem to be double that.
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Post by BTVNadmin on Aug 11, 2009 18:54:11 GMT -5
Video here: (Full-screen it to do it justice!)
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Post by dotcomeditor on Aug 12, 2009 7:07:25 GMT -5
It looks great. Goodbye Festivus poles!
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Post by bostonmediaguy on Aug 12, 2009 13:42:11 GMT -5
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Post by newsfan2010 on Aug 13, 2009 9:26:40 GMT -5
I like the new look. I say it's a nice improvement.
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Post by takethree on Aug 16, 2009 15:26:21 GMT -5
It made its debut this past week.
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