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Monthly Archive for December, 2005
Looks like the pastel colors on CNBC are gone, and more 3D tricks have been added. TVnewser reports viewers hate it
- Just saw a promo for Squawk Box – looks like CNBC brought back the 3D graphics with blue and chrome like they had around 2003 when they moved to the new studios. I personally thought the previous graphics looked like something you’d see on the Today Show and most of them just didn’t make much sense. They had all these arrows and circles swirling around for no apparent reason
- They’ve moved the Walstreet stripe from the right side of the screen to the top. It now looks like something you’d see on Nascar. But at least it’s out of the screen and doesn’t get in the way of what’s on the screen
Has anyone seen promos on 7 in the last few weeks? I’m talking image campaigns, not the Habitat for Humanity or the promos for newscast reports. They don’t even have a promo for yesterday’s coverage of the plane crash which is a bit unusual. Unless I’ve missed them
Update – they are having new promos out soon. The new Creative Services Director is in charge. He comes from WHDH so it would be interesting to see what he comes up with.
A rather fast preview of what the new features on CBS4.com are. They used that white frame gimmick from the HP commercials to illustrate the “save it” feature on the site 
– What’s New on CBS4.com
Dave Malkoff is also the one handling the technology blog – Technology Blog and currently there’s an interesting explanation of how the edited the report on the new CBS4.com
Anonymous Phone Contact
Tracking promos
Besides 7, are the other 3 stations running any year-in-review promos?
My DVR is full but so far I haven’t come accross anything from 4 6 or 10