As you may know, half of your NewscastStudio team (me) lives and works in Chicago — which is in the middle of a cold snap (actually, as I write this, there are some light flurries are falling). Well, imagine my surprise when I learned that the local Fox O&O, WFLD-TV, was predicting 230 degree temperatures […]
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 […]
It’s no secret that news organizations prepare packages, graphics and other content about the death of prominent celebrities and figures well before they die, but something interesting popped up during WLS-TV’s coverage of the passing of Nelson Mandela. The Chicago ABC O&O aired a story, reported by anchor Ron Magers, that covered some of Mandela’s […]
We all knew Nelson Mandela was a lot of things — a nobel laureate, statesman and first black president of South Africa to name just a few — but apparently one station knew something the rest of the world didn’t — he also moonlighted as Alex Rodriguez on the Yankees. Well, not really, of course, […]
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 […]
A select number of Gannett stations have debuted new websites that use the same look and feel as its parent company’s flagship newspaper USA Today. NewscastStudio noted back in October that Gannett switched its Rochester, N.Y. newspaper to the USA Today design and it appears the company’s television properties are heading in the same direction. The […]
Boy, weathermen have been put under a lot of pressure lately. First, a Colorado Springs forecaster was forced to pantomime his forecast — and now poor Al Roker almost gets swallowed up by a high pressure front. Roker had just started his weather segment on “Today” and had walked over to his touchscreen monitor from […]
KXRM-TV morning meteorologist Justin Chambers found himself on air without weather graphics after a computer crash. So, the Colorado Springs weathercaster decided to pantomime the forecast for viewers using antics ranging from dancing, playing charades with the anchor — and even eating his breakfast on air. He also made use of another form of technology, an […]
Real time graphics company Vizrt has announced plans to acquire Mosart Medialab AS, a Norwegian company that offering development and licensing of newscast automation software. Mosart helps broadcasters streamline production workflows, automating a number of TV production tasks through software, enabling the creation of complex production with just a few operators through a single interface. “I am […]
Former MSNBC producer Henry Melcher, who now works for an FXX show, has a Tumblr blog that showcases goofy TV news lower thirds. The blog, called simply “The Lower Third,” is located here and includes Melcher’s suggestion for an alternative headline, according to Mediaite. H/T Mediaite
