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Rio Grande Valley station going HD

Residents of the Rio Grande River Valley have something else to look forward to on the year’s catchiest date — 09/09/09 — HD news.

KRGV-TV, the region’s ABC affiliate is switching to HD news and has released the promo below. The station has been broadcasting from the newsroom and is promoting “big changes planned for the studio” on its Facebook page. No word yet on who’s behind the new look.

Thanks to Michael for the tip.

‘Stained glass’ set coming to Miami

NewscastStudio received some renderings courtesy of NewsBlues of what is being dubbed the “stained glass” set at WPLG-TV in Miami.

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CNN buys top of NYPost.com homepage

CNN has purchased advertising on the homepage of NYPost.com, which is owned by rival Fox News Channel parent News Corp., promoting its New Year’s Eve coverage fronted by Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin.

The ad goes beyond just a normal banner ad; it extends into the background of the page and also wraps around the “New York Post” logo seamlessly. It’s also interesting to note the large red “LIVE FROM TIMES SQUARE” block which echoes the network’s boxy on-air look.

WNBC taking set design from the Death Star?

WNBC-TV image courtesy TVNewsTalk.net

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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Overkill of graphics causes dizzyness, clutter

The New York Daily News’ TV editor Richard Huff points out the gluttony of graphics being used on “Nancy Grace” and says the trend continues across the TV news spectrum.

SNL’s touchscreen parody used same technology as CNN’s

In tonight’s re-run of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday, we noticed a credit line that read: “Promotional Consideration Provided by Perspective Pixel.”

Perspective Pixel is the company that makes CNN’s real-life touchscreen technology that John King uses, which SNL parodied Thursday.

For more on Perspective Pixel and its use at CNN, check out these articles:

• CNN’s Election Night Interpreter Revels in a High-Tech Toy
• CNN Hits The Wall for the Election
• Super Tuesday: Night Of The Touch-Screens

WKYC-TV graphics posted

We’ve added screen graphics from WKYC-TV in Cleveland, the blue version of the new Gannett graphical look, the red version of which was already rolled out at WZZM-TV.

Inside school news production

Here’s an interesting article from a local newspaper near Bethesda, Md., that goes behind the scenes at a local school morning announcements program.

Typo appears on FNC L3

English Fail Blog caught a typo on Fox News Channel’s Hurricane Ike coverage.

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WGCL-TV moves to a temporary set

From our friends at Newsbuzzatl, WGCL-TV in Atlanta, Georgia has moved its broadcasts from their FX Group set to a temporary set.

Look for a new set to be unveiled in the coming weeks and maybe HD?

KSWB-TV debuts newscasts with ‘mega map’

KSWB-TV, the station San Diego that recently swaped Fox affiliations with XETV-TV, debuted 37 hours of weekly news reports yesterday.

One of the newscasts’ most prominent features is a sprawling “mega map” that is used to present traffic reports. The station’s traffic reporter, Chrissy Russo, is able to walk over the city’s highways and byways, pointing out trouble spots as a jib camera records the action.

Photo courtesy of Tribune.