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‘This Week’ moves into new home

TVNewser has photos of the new studio for “This Week” at the Newseum.

NewscastStudio Podcast: Day Two

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Watch that HD framing

Some little mistakes slipped through tonight’s first feed of Nightly News that show one of the challenges of HD: making sure shots work in 4:3 and 16:9.

Brian had Andrea Mitchell and Lee Cowan in the Washington Capitol Hill studio at the anchor desk. During the wide shot just before Mitchell started her report, a dark shadow (presumably a person) appeared in the lower right hand corner. It was, however, mostly outside of the 4:3 space.

Then, during a package, Mitchell and Cowan left the set and Tim Russert joined Brian at the desk. Just behind his chair you could see one of the extra chairs pushed up against the wall.

While the HD viewership still doesn’t have a majority, productions do need to be cautious when setting up shots.

In other areas of the show, there seemed to be something a bit awry with timing. Maybe it was my imagination, but Brian seemed to start talking just a little too late and on several occasions mikes weren’t cut off quickly enough and a little audio slipped through (including a snippet coming out of the first break that may have been a stage direction).

CBS changes

It looks as if Susan McGinnis will be leaving CBS, as reported by TVNewser. I remember many times where I was up late, working, and nothing as on, but news. Susan and the CBS Morning News team would provide the live updates. I wonder where she is off to? What do you think of this departure?

I always felt as if Susan would work up the later at CBS, but I guess she is off, maybe to a cable outlet.

Starting up a brand new day, again…

It’s been only 8 short years since The Early Show hit the air on CBS, ushering in a new way to wake up, and with The Early Show, many things were done different.

After years of falling in the ratings, CBS has finally decided to give The Early Show a major overhaul, trying to give it a home in the growing morning show race.

The last major overhaul came in 2006 when CBS gave The Early Show the new standard CBS graphics, but after even more declining ratings, CBS decided on a bigger change, new graphics, new music, new set, and new talent.

The new Early Show main desk, with new Producer Shelley Ross. Picture courtesy: Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
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