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NBCU to invest $190M in NYC facilities

NBCUniversal has announced it plans to invest some $190 million in upgrades and renovations at the company’s New York City headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and other nearby facilities.

A key component of the project is adding energy efficient and environmentally friendly initiatives as part of the company’s “Green is Universal” efforts.

In addition to work at 30 Rock, the company will also renovate portions of the 245,000 square feet it has leased at 1221 Avenue of Americas, including adding a new studio control room and fiber networking technology.

The work is expected to stretch through the first quarter of 2014 and provide 484,000 man hours of employment.

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Graphics

MSNBC labels French president a prostitute

During a tease this morning, MSNBC mistakenly labeled outgoing French president Nicolas Sarkozy as a prostitute.

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Site Updates

New NewscastStudio coming this summer

Some exciting change are coming to NewscastStudio! We just completed the design mockups for a new look for NewscastStudio and have handed them off to our development team.

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Site Updates

A note to TV News Insider readers

As you may be aware, our sister site TV News Insider has been noticeably quiet this week. This wasn’t by choice.

For most of the week, the hosting company that serves TV News Insider has been having major technical issues and we wanted to take a few minutes to explain what’s going on and what we’re doing about it.

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HD, Local News, Set Design, SetStudio, Site Updates

WPMI-TV added to SetStudio

We’ve added photos of WPMI-TV, the Mobile NBC affiliate, to SetStudio.

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Advertising, Branding, Networks, Weather

The Weather Channel serves up personalized weather

The Weather Channel has rolled out a new campaign for its 30th anniversary, featuring God and a more social web experience.

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Branding, Music

Corporations taking notice of sonic identity

Radio program Marketplace had an interesting segment on how mainstream businesses are starting to better understand the importance of something broadcast news has recognized for years: Sonic identities.

The report covers how sonic IDs are sprouting up all over the place, ranging from clothes dryer manufacturer LG to car maker Hyundai.

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Local News

Whoops: Sue Simmons caught discussing her breast on air

Outgoing WNBC-TV anchor Sue Simmons was caught telling a story about something hitting her breast before the station’s 11 p.m. newscast Monday.

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Local News, Online

Local TV sites make switch to WordPress VIP CMS

Local TV websites have recently switched over to using the WordPress VIP hosting and content management platform, and with that comes a redesign for all of the sites.

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Local News

El Paso anchors strike a pose for close shot

The late news team at KTSM-TV, the NBC affiliate in El Paso, Texas, used the newscast’s 10 p.m. closing shot to have a little bit of fun.

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Networks

’30 Rock’ spoofs NBC News

Here’s a little fun for your Friday: Last night NBC’s “30 Rock” aired two live episodes, one edition for the east coast and another for the west.

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