We’ve added two new image collections to the site.
First is the graphics package at WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, Fla. This is a unique look that uses a stark white background as a base. The open starts with a morphed NBC peacock that becomes fully-formed and also incorporates bold blues and golds. Unique angles also add a sense of depth to the look.
We also added photos of the “Twin Cities Live” set at KSTP-TV in St. Paul, Minn. This set, designed by Park Place Studio, features an great urban feel complete with industrial-style windows you’d expect to find in a funky loft space. The design also incorporates numerous textures and materials as well as meticulous lighting design that add a realistic feel and set of modes to the studio.
Courtesy of TVNewsTalk.net: WNBC-TV in New York has gotten an addition to its newly-inaugurated set. On this morning’s news, viewers could see new metal and frosted divider panels.
It appears WNBC-TV is using the set’s main anchor desk in the same position since you can faintly see the newsroom’s low divider wall and slanted support bars through the divider.
NewscastStudio will be taking a little breather over the Thanksgiving holiday. Barring any major breaking news, we won’t be updating the blog or site beginning Wednesday, Nov. 26. We’ll return on Monday, Dec. 1.
Have a great holiday — even if you have to celebrate it at McDonald’s or with a aluminum foil tray of dried up turkey at the assignment desk (anyone who’s ever had to go to the station for work on Thanksgiving day knows what we mean).
Sunday’s edition of “NBC Nightly News” included a tease for sister network CNBC’s special on the Citigroup crisis that utilized a full screen graphic with the WNBC-TV look.
It’s interesting that this was used since the WNBC-TV graphics package is much brighter and uses a different color scheme than “Nightly” does. It is possible the graphic was used because the program was scheduled last-minute, not leaving the “Nightly” folks enough time to prepare their own.
Lost Remote reports that blogging company Six Apart is offering free blogs to recently laid-off journalists through its “TypePad Journalist Bailout Program.”
If you subscribe to our Newscast Inspiration newsletter (and if you’re not, you should be!), you should be familiar with our “NewscastTip” column that appears each week in the publication. So far we’ve covered standup set ideas, interview set ideas, ways to enhance stories that don’t have video and ways to monitor competitors’ Web sites.
But we want to hear from you! What topics do you want to know more about? We’re looking for ideas in pretty much any area — graphics, sets, Web sites, storytelling, writing or presentation styles.
CNET has an article about a way to view the full 720p version of videos uploaded to popular video sharing site YouTube. The trick is to, after a high-quality video has been uploaded, add “&fmt=22″ to the end of the URL. This new addition, if made permanent would be great addition to the site, allowing for higher qualify videos of news to be uploaded and enjoyed by all (as well as other content).
An article in today’s New York Daily News has comments from WNBC-TV’s anchors about their thoughts of the new set. “I love it,” the article quotes anchor Darlene Rodriguez as saying.
There is also an image with the article, shown here, that seems to indicate WNBC-TV extended the half wall running behind the anchors to cover the walkway down the center of the newsroom. Someone at WNBC must have had the same thought we did about that unsightly feature.
OK. Let me just get it out of the way. The first thing I thought of when I saw WNBC-TV’s new set was the Death Star — if you take away the color, the vertical, back lit patterns found in walls are pretty darn close to the background elements seen throughout the Death Star sets.
Anyway, today WNBC-TV, NBC’s flagship O&O in New York City debuted a new set that features a working newsroom background.
The rectangular anchor desk mirrors the one found on the Nightly News studio and certainly gives off a sleek, polished look.
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