On this weekend’s edition of “Saturday Night Live” featuring actor Paul Rudd, he and cast member Kenan Thompson teamed up to spoof MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” from Studio 8H in NBC’s Rockefeller Center studios. The skit’s set attempted to mimic the real life MSNBC studio’s backlit panels and metallic framework as well as the show and network […]
It wasn’t just Thomas Roberts’ falsetto singing that made a toss between him and Chris Jansing awkward. As Jansing’s timeslot ended she, as with many MSNBC programs, tossed to the next anchor in a split screen, in the case Thomas Roberts. The two then engaged in some friendly banter where Roberts expressed disappointment in not […]
During its Nelson Mandela coverage, CNN apparently used a topical graphic in the lower left corner of the screen that included 2012 as the year of the former South African president’s death. The graphic, shown above in an image posted on Twitter by Manav Acharya, shows the purported error. Acharya called out CNN in her tweet […]
Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group, makes note that Fox News Channel’s “Huckabee” has a mirror in its studio that makes the on set audience seem larger. News of the mirrors was first discussed on TBS’s “The Pete Holmes Show” when comedian Noah Garfinkel claimed he attended a taping of “Huckabee” and noticed […]
Clickspring Design transformed the Museum of Natural History for “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.” The stage was built in the Irma and Paul Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life, which is dominated by a Great Blue Whale hanging from the ceiling. The stage included a performance area, a 6×6 monitor array and many cubes with […]
NewscastStudio’s CNN sources say plans are under way to update the CNN “Early Start” set. The show originates from what was once dubbed the “Communications Center” and also served as home to many years of CNN election coverage. Since then, however, the once open studio on the fifth floor has been enclosed and painted over, […]
CNN has launched “Scenes from the Field,” a new feature that features an Instagram-like gallery to give its global team of journalists a way to share visual content taken from where they are. The site, located here, features a mix of old and new behind the scenes imagery taken by CNN crews. The idea, according […]
ESPN has released an update to its mobile app that aims to make personalization easier. The new SportsCenter app is a “reimagining” of the ScoreCenter app and also consolidated the functionality of numerous other apps, reports TechCrunch. In addition to allowing for access to video and stories, the new app allows users to specific favorite […]
We noticed CNN.com has a created an interactive, parallax scrolling experience that documents the happenings at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The full screen interactive page allows the user to continually scroll down to access every photo while factoids and text are mixed in. The story makes use of advanced animation and scroll effects to create an […]
Time Warner Cable is in the middle of a major rebrand of its 16 news networks, including NY1 in New York City. “In an effort to be consistent, all of the local cable news stations within the Time Warner Cable footprint will have “Time Warner Cable News” added to their names. The content of the […]
