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Who Makes 7News So Pretty?

Someone by the name of BK who works at WSVN’s graphics department. Well, him and a couple other people but he posted this behind the scenes video from his day at work creating one of the gajilion transitions, bumpers, and teases seen on 7News every day.


Work With BK! from bk on Vimeo.

Vintage 7news: 1993 6pm

Lynn Martinez and Rob Hanrahan anchoring 7news at 6pm in 1993 with long close

WSVN and WPLG now on LiveNewsCameras.com

A reader dropped a note saying WSVN and WPLG have been added to livenewscameras.com

WPLG has one feed, I presume only their regular newscasts.

WSVN has two feeds, the one on their website which broadcasts on-air and a second feed that shows different thngs - mainly their weather computer, Skyforce dispatches and occasionally a live press conferences. Right now there is a police chase going on at the moment

you can find both feeds at the top of the second page

LiveNewsCameras.com - Watch Live Streaming News From the USA & World - Beta Version

Rick Sanchez Saying Goodbye

I have this on tape somewhere but someone not as lazy (ha!) put it up on YouTube.

Rick Sanchez saying goodbye in May of 2001.

When 7 Was All Nice and Homely

From a time when WSVN was NBC. When it was sweet, innocent and took its Ritalin regularly.
A bit cheesy and yet so … normal!? For 7 anyways

Vintage WSVN: 1988 5pm Open

WSVN 5pm open from 1988. Rick Sanchez hasn’t changed one bit :D

Vintage 7News from 1994

6:30pm open from 1994. Probably a little bit before the newsplex/globe open make over
Rob Hanrahan is now at WFOR, Jessica Aguirre just joined NBC11 in San Francisco from KGO, and Robin Meade is at CNN Headline News hosting Robin & Co

Vintage 7News

Lynn Martinez and Craig Stevens anchoring 7News weekends on October 15th 1994.

The Storm Station Promo

7 have gone back to the bad ass promos. This one either debuted on Sunday during the 5pm newscast, or it’s just new to me. Whoever does the graphics now 7 are coming up with some pretty interesting concepts.

There’s also another promo for Phil Ferro and the rest of the weather team that’s not as swooshy as this one, it looks more like the Phil Ferro promo that had no voice over on dark background.

So what do you think - hot or not? I vote hot, when it came on it made me turn and look at the TV just as I was looking to change channels. Cool stuff


New graphics on 7, again

Looks like they’ve changed the “News Today” bump and it’s pretty cool. Along the lines of what New Video bumper graphics are but much cooler. There’s a sphere, that looks a lot like the borg sphere on Star Trek, that opens up and a 7 logo pops out. Everything is very blue and chrome.

I’m sleepy, lazy and watching the solar eclipse live from Turkey, but I’ll try to get some screen shots later today if nothing crashes. Been having issues with my PC for a while.

Update:
I find it amusing how the 7 logo comes out of a Borg-like sphere :). And I do like how busy the background is but those things rotate a bit too fast.
Some screencaps. I’m too lazy to to get the video it takes so long to edit and encode.

7News in the mix

The new 10pm promo touting their being #1 late news with nice techno beat in the background

And call me psychic, but somehow I knew Carmel Cafiero chacing a crook would end up in the promo. Heh

click the pic to download

Title: 10pm news promo
Time: 0:30
Resolution: 640×360
Size: 7.71MB
Format: MPEG-1

Mind the hair

I was rewinding my DVR tonight and came accross this

Title: Deco Drive Feb 9th close
Time: 0:24
Size: 6.11MB
Format: MPEG-1

Sweeps Promo

by request

Title: 7News February Sweeps Promo
Time: 0:30
Resolution: 640×360
Size: 7.7MB
Format: MPEG-1

Rock’n roll

Disco news? That’s so yesterday, rock’n roll news is in. At least they changed those hideous graphics from before that looked like MS Powerpoint.

Just going thru my DVR recordings from last nite and thought I’d share

Title: 7News promo - You Know When it’s Seven News
Time: 0:30
Resolution: 640×360
Size: 7.69MB
Format: MPEG-1

Testing new video format

Just testing a video. Click the image, check it out and let me know if it’s not loading allright. I am thinking of switching to MPEG-1 for all videos but kind of don’t want to dump XviD because of it’s quality

  • Name: 7News 10pm Close with newsplex shot and 11pm tease
    Time: 1:11
    Resolution: 640×480
    Size: 21.7MB
    Format: MPEG-1