Here’s a video, I think it’s still airing, of Laurie Jennings riding the tri-rail and mingling with people. It’s nice and rather low key. There is at least one other version of this promo as well.
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Here’s another version - download video - 5.3MB MPEG-1
I just noticed this promo about a week or so ago.
It features Dwight Lauderdale and Michael Putney. Lauderdale mostly talks about Laurie Jennings, while Putney puts emphasys on the journalistic values of the news team.
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Anonymous emailer says there’s a new reporter on 7 by the name of Vanessa Ruiz. I didn’t see her reporting but the tipster said “looks like she just graduated college”. If I don’t forget I’ll DVR the 10pm newscast and post a video or screen cap
update: I think that’s her but I may be wrong, no idea what it says on the page but I saw something about Miami - bio link to Telemundo
update 11/25 6:16pm - watching her now on 7 live shot from Bayfront - she’s cool. I thought she’d be stiff and monotonous but she was quite the opposite. I think they should keep her if she’s not signed yet
Arstechnica is reporting that AOL will not be giving us postage stamp sized video with their upcoming In2TV broadband channel. They are making In2TV P2P (peer-to-peer) based, with propriatory video codec called AOL Hi-Q and a propriatory player to go along. Everythig will be heavily DRM-ed to prevent people from sharing the content, although we know how “hard” it is to do screen captures.
AOL says they’ll deliver DVD quality streaming video, I’d guess probably something up to 720×480 in size (most video, from local tv stations and online in general is 240×180 or 320×240 pixels). Although I doubt that quality will be achievable most of the time on a regular DSL or cable connection. The internet wasn’t made for streaming video, and certainly consumer grade internet connections don’t exactly route requests through the most efficiant path from point A to point B. High pings come to mind, especially when the kids around here get online. Not to mention that often you barely manage to get half of those 6Mbps your ISP offers when everyone in the ‘hood is gawking at stuff online.
Nonetheless I can’t wait to see what they’ve come up with, hopefully my Comcast connection won’t make things miserable like it does lately when I’m using Skype.
There’s a Florida connection with AOL In2TV - 2C Media (their website is still not done) is programming In2TV and creating viral video and editorial content.
NBC’s Trio channel which used to live in one of the digital tiers on Comcast is heading to BravoTV.com
Trio will join Bravo’s webiste as an online-only broadband channel with original programming. Start time is set for the begining of next year.
(via LostRemote) - NBC PR release NBC Universal To Launch Trio Broadband Intiative
WPLG’s anchor gal Neki Mohan will be honored in Washington DC by the Institue of Caribbean Studies in their 12th Caribbean-American Heritage Awards.
T&T Journalist Among D.C. Center’s Honorees
Forecast it should be here by Monday, probably as a tropical storm, an anonymous tipster says the local stations are gearing up. WFOR is sending crews to the Keys with coverage to begin on Saturday. And I’ll make a wild guess other stations are doing the same
Does it feel yet like those TV stations are slowly getting more irrelevant by the day? First it was ABC’s shows on iTunes, then we got CBS and NBC shows on demand right after they aired on TV. Now AOL and Warner Brothers are putting 100 TV shows on the web. For free! Ad supported of course. They’ll have four 15-second ads per 30 minutes of content and banner advertising.
If the advertising model works, and we manage to hook up our PCs to the TV this is bound to impact the TV stations, some of which rely heavily on syndicated content. I think it may not completely make them go away, but it will hit them in the pocket book as more advertising is moving online.
Washington Post - AOL to Have Reruns on Demand
Thanks to the anonymous emailer for alerting me to these. As previously mentioned there was talk that November Sweeps for Broward and Miami-Dade will be canceled, and now it’s official.
Sun Sentinel- November’s ’sweeps’ ratings cancelled for South Florida TV stations
Miami Herald - Nielsen ratings clouded by dark screens
I thought they were supposed to get the NBC O&O look but it’s past sweeps, even though they’re canceled, and nothing. Are they holding for February? Anyone?
When they have shots of the satellite center where all the tape decks are, you can see all the big beta tapes and some much smaller yellow things stacked near them. I assume these have something to do with them going digital?
Which also brings me to the question - is anyone familiar with plans for the local stations to actually broadcast news in a true 720p or 1080i format and maybe 16:9? I know 7’s cameras are 16:9 ready because they used to put black bars on each side and had gaps where you could see a little bit at the very end. Feel free to use the red box and send me a mail if you don’t want to post in the comments
Thanks to whoever sent this.
A monkey visits with WBAL anchor Wendy Basara on the set and goes crazy on top of the anchor desk. I thought it was so funny when he starts to pull her scripts and won’t give them back. Funny stuff check it out Video link
(via LostRemote) Your local news station has a very important poll on their web site - courtsey of NBC affiliate in California of link
Insider says:
They are no longer “your Problem Solvers station” .. They no longer have a “problem solvers” unit .. and they may lose their LOCAL 10 name… which is why the open is so empty.
Wonder if they are going to change the open again once they decide what to call themselves
5pm tease and open
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11pm tease and open
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I really like the swoosh at the start of the tease, and the sound effects are nice especially if you have good surround sound earphones or speakers. Not sure I like the open being so short, and it doesn’t even have a voice over. What do you think, thumbs up or thumbs down?
WFAA’s new digs
WFAA, ABC affiliate in Dallas/Ft. Worth got new digs, and have a video tour of them on their site. Check it out r