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Convention coverage on TV and Online Part 2

Monday, August 25th, 2008

As the convention rolls on, more and more networks are showing their full hands.

MSNBC has a secondary desk upstairs of their platform for Keith and Chris. NBC News also has new graphics for tonight’s convention coverage, unfortunately they are not as good as their previous graphics and do not match any other NBC election graphics.

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Tags: abc, cbs, convention, democratic convention, election, fox, msnbc, nbc
Posted in Cable News, Election 2008, Graphics, HD, Networks, Set Design |

Convention coverage on TV and Online

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Many networks have made slight tweaks for the conventions. MSNBC has tweaked their lower third to include a donkey or a elephant depending on the convention along with coloring the lower third red, white and blue.

CNN has switched to their political graphics with the truss work and grunge style. FOX News has kept with their unified HD look but rolled out some small changes.

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Tags: CNN, convention, FOX News, msnbc, politics
Posted in Cable News, Election 2008, Graphics, HD, Networks, Set Design |

ABC News pushes up HD debut

Monday, August 25th, 2008

ABC News has decided to move up its HD debut from the previously scheduled September 8 to today.

“On Aug. 25, World News with Charles Gibson and Nightline start broadcasting in 720-line progressive (720p) HD, first from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, then from the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul the following week.

And like the other networks, ABC News will also broadcast both conventions in HD for the first time.”

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Tags: abc, abc news, abc world news, charles gibson, HD
Posted in HD, Networks |

ABC World News to go HD

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

ABC World News will begin broadcasting in HD in September.

ABC World News will be the third and final network nightly news program to launch in HD. Their launch will come just weeks after CBS’s and over a year after NBC’s.

“For those keeping score at home, last night’s HD debut makes CBS the second network to launch a high-definition evening news broadcast. ‘The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams’ has been high-def since March 2007″ wrote Philadelphia Daily News.

An ABC spokesperson said ABC World News will launch sometime during the week of Sept. 8.

With a new set and graphics package in place, expect ABC’s HD launch to be a quite one.

Tags: abc news, abc world news, Evening News, HD
Posted in HD, Networks |

Couric’s HD debut comes with set tweaks

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Last night’s “CBS Evening News,” the first in high def, introduced a new background on the show’s newsroom set.

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Tags: bdi, cbs, cbs evening news, katie couric
Posted in HD, Networks, Set Design |