On this weekend’s edition of “Saturday Night Live” featuring actor Paul Rudd, he and cast member Kenan Thompson teamed up to spoof MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” from Studio 8H in NBC’s Rockefeller Center studios. The skit’s set attempted to mimic the real life MSNBC studio’s backlit panels and metallic framework as well as the show and network […]
It wasn’t just Thomas Roberts’ falsetto singing that made a toss between him and Chris Jansing awkward. As Jansing’s timeslot ended she, as with many MSNBC programs, tossed to the next anchor in a split screen, in the case Thomas Roberts. The two then engaged in some friendly banter where Roberts expressed disappointment in not […]
CNN debuted “In Case You Missed It” and “The 11th Hour” last week from its New York City studios. “In Case You Missed It” broadcast from a darkened “New Day” studio with dramatic blue lighting and skyline views. The show also oriented the anchor against the video wall camera left of the wall normally used […]
As you may know, half of your NewscastStudio team (me) lives and works in Chicago — which is in the middle of a cold snap (actually, as I write this, there are some light flurries are falling). Well, imagine my surprise when I learned that the local Fox O&O, WFLD-TV, was predicting 230 degree temperatures […]
During its Nelson Mandela coverage, CNN apparently used a topical graphic in the lower left corner of the screen that included 2012 as the year of the former South African president’s death. The graphic, shown above in an image posted on Twitter by Manav Acharya, shows the purported error. Acharya called out CNN in her tweet […]
Here’s a little lighthearted story for your Friday. During a segment Friday about emoji — those illustrative icons commonly found in iPhone and other devices — the “Today Show” featured guests from Fast Company who “emoji-ed” parts of the show. Our favorite was a rather fanciful recreation of Carson Daly in the Orange Room, the […]
It’s no secret that news organizations prepare packages, graphics and other content about the death of prominent celebrities and figures well before they die, but something interesting popped up during WLS-TV’s coverage of the passing of Nelson Mandela. The Chicago ABC O&O aired a story, reported by anchor Ron Magers, that covered some of Mandela’s […]
We all knew Nelson Mandela was a lot of things — a nobel laureate, statesman and first black president of South Africa to name just a few — but apparently one station knew something the rest of the world didn’t — he also moonlighted as Alex Rodriguez on the Yankees. Well, not really, of course, […]
Stephen Arnold Music is again helping deserving students this holiday season with The Six Strings of Christmas. Debuted in 2012, 100 percent of the proceeds will support Little Kids Rock, a national nonprofit organization thats restoring and revitalizing music education in disadvantaged public schools. “It was thrilling to see the strong response to The Six […]
KTVA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska, has debuted its new home and NewscastStudio has an exclusive first look at some photos of the set. The new studio, which is part of the Anchorage Daily News building, includes a set and newsroom designed by Devlin Design Group. The second floor newsroom includes workstations surrounded by […]
