Archive for the ‘Graphics’ Category

‘This Week’ debuts with updated graphics and theme

“This Week with Christiane Amanpour” debuted this past Sunday with many changes, including new graphics, music and an updated set at the Newseum.

The new graphics use red as the dominant color, dropping the previous red and blue look. The new graphics are also much more polished than the previous hodge-podge. While the open in the previous package was nice, the rest of the graphics felt like an afterthought.

The opening now shows various places around the world, while the previous focused on Washington D.C. landmarks, echoing Amanpour’s journalism background.

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WBBM-TV rolls out CBS O&O graphics

WBBM-TV, the Chicago CBS affiliate, has rolled out the latest CBS O&O package.

The package is currently in use by some of the other CBS O&O stations, including KCBS-TV.

Vizrt announces Viz Sports Online

Vizrt today announced Viz Sports, a software package that incorporates Vizrt’s creative tools and widgets, that helps create content immerse sports websites right out of the box.

Viz Sports Online is a flexible, modular suite of user-friendly, preconfigured Vizrt tools, providing users with complete creative freedom over the look and feel of web page layouts, image versions and sizes, and overall site structure.

With Viz Sports Online, all video, graphics, text, images, maps, statistics and web publishing tools are available from within a single, user-friendly, drag and drop-based interface. Design-savvy templates let users produce dynamic, branded graphics, maps and web pages that they can fill on the fly with text, images, headers and titles. Viz Sports Online also offers a full video repository with video editing, video playlists, picture-in-picture, and video ad integration capabilities.

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KOMO-TV rolls out new graphics

KOMO-TV, the Seattle based ABC affiliate, has debuted new graphics by Giant Octopus.

The graphics use bold blues and 3D effects to create a modern look for KOMO-TV. The graphics are also being used at other Fisher Communications stations, but it is unknown if they are part of a station wide package.

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WXTV-TV, Univision 41, debuts in HD

New York City’s Univision affiliate, WXTV-TV, has debuted in HD. This marks the first NYC Spanish language channel to broadcast local news in HD.

L3 Oops…

Via DCRtv.com, WTTG-TV mistakenly identified a recently killed Al-Qaida leader as one of its morning news anchors, Gurvir Dhindsa.

WNJU-TV added to the Graphics section

We’ve added screencaps of Telemundo New York, WNJU-TV,  to our graphics section. These graphics debuted during May.

Sinclair continues use of Chyron’s AXIS Graphics on the ‘cloud’

Chyron and Sinclair Broadcast Group have announced the full implementation of Chyron’s AXIS suite of Internet-based graphics services.

Already a client of AXIS maps for all of its news producing stations for nearly five years, Sinclair will add AXIS news, charts and quotes functionality. Sinclair will also utilize AXIS track & order that will allow their centralized environment to quickly order, fulfill and track customized assets quickly and efficiently.

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Massive morning show CONSPIRACY

A user by the name of “Lim” has been commenting on this for the past week, and now TVNewser has picked it up.

This user, and maybe others, believe a vast conspiracy is underway by “Good Morning America” to copy the graphics used by CBS’s “The Early Show” in 2008.

As Alex Weprin of TVNewser noted, “THEY BOTH USE THE COLORS BLUE AND YELLOW. DON’T YOU SEE???”

What are your thoughts? Did ABC draw inspiration from the package?

KBAK-TV debuts FX Group set

KBAK-TV, the Fisher Communications owned station in Bakersfield, California, has debuted a new FX Group designed set.

Via TVNewsCheck.com, “The studio ‘was designed to accommodate the new 16×9 television screen standards and is a step in the preparation for a future upgrade to high-definition television.’ The stations also upgraded the newscasts’ graphics.”

From the video available it’s hard to tell much about the set, but it does have a large monitor behind the main anchor desk along with some metal and plexi elements.

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KTVX-TV launches in HD with new set and graphics

KTVX-TV, the Salt Lake City ABC affiliate, has debuted in high definition with a new set and graphics package.

The set was designed by Devlin Design Group and features many flexible areas. The graphics are from Hothaus Creative. Caps after the jump.

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‘Good Morning America” rolls out new graphics

ABC News’ “Good Morning America” debuted new graphics today.

The graphics, using vibrant blues and yellows, use many 3-D angle elements to create layers.

Overall, the new look is very different from ABC’s previous yellow and red graphics. These new graphics also stand out from “Today” and “The Early Show,” but all three are lacking compared to the various evening news graphics.

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