I don’t think they’re going to get out the new graphics. It appears that finishing the newsplex is first on the agenda. The weather set is almost done, a new stand-up area with monitors and a new news desk are next. Plus sweeps are on.
There’s new weather graphics but no info on when they’ll slip them in.
So the truth is we know nothin’ about nothin’, everything will happen when it does
Someone tipped me WLTV – Univision 23 have changed their graphics and music. I’ll post a few screencaps at 6pm.
- I think the new graphics have a bit of an Entertainment Tonight feel to the open, just not as flashy and swooshy. Screencaps coming
Emptying the DVR I just ran across a WPLG promo from the 9th of April, running a promo featuring a viewer saying how Local10 help them during last year’s hurricanes.
Someone just sent this – CBS4’s Ileana Varella reporting on that fire truck that collided with a car and killed a woman, as she’s wrapping up her live report two cars crash just a few feet away from where the crew is at! Video link on CBS4.com
Just noticed a while ago – WPTV’s website has a new look and ahs been detached from TCPalm.com and now sits on it’s own domain.
I like it, surprisingly it doesn’t feel overloaded, separates all of the content columns nicely. I think it looks better than what WTVJ has 
Palm Beach Post – Page Two reports that WPTV’s meteorologist Rob Lopicola has left the station abruptly and nobody seems to know why. Personal issues were mentioned but no one knows for sure. Lopicola was a meterologist at WPTV for 8 years.
Meanwhile 5’s chief meteorologist Steve Weagle has been signed for 5 more years
Palm Beach Post
Did Lopicola storm out of channel 5 gig?
WNBC – NBC affiliate in New York City have made use of their digital spectrum by creating a new channel called 4.4. The new channel will showcase independent original production.
KTVX – ABC affiliate in Utah have named their newly created channel ‘The Hive‘ with a slogan “Sweet TV”.
Looks like WNBC’s production is local, but it could very well be something that came down from the network. I would not be surprised if NBC6 tries the same thing here in South Florida. But would anybody watch? There’s some interest but I don’t think any of these digital channels will draw a significant crowd there is too many other channels out there and that internets thing.
via LostRemote
For some of us on the eastern side of things, Easter is today and it’s almost as big a celebration as Christmas is in the US. So Hristos Voskrese, or Hristos Aneste if you’re Greek … and to anyone who might be celebrating it today.
I’ve grown f-n tired of the barrage of spam I have to sift thru every day (upwards of 200-300 a day) so I have installed spam controls to, hopefully, help with the spam bots. If seemingly your messages are dissapearing into a black hole it’s because they might have been inadvertedly marked as spam, so if you are really concerned you can use the tip link and let me know
7 already giving preview of the new graphics?
The new promo “See It on 7″ with the weird 7 logo and glass-looking elements must be a preview of 7’s new graphics. I’m speculating here but we’re 4 days away from sweeps and last time around the all-red themes with chrome showed up in the May of 01 sweeps promo, with the graphics debuting in November ‘01.