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 […]
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, […]
KTVA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska, has debuted its new home and NewscastStudio has an exclusive first look at some photos of the set. The new studio, which is part of the Anchorage Daily News building, includes a set and newsroom designed by Devlin Design Group. The second floor newsroom includes workstations surrounded by […]
During the past two years, Sabca Productions (and owner Aldo Alvarez) has helped Univision relaunch its local affiliates. “Aldo is able to customize our sets to each market utilizing the same basic design concepts while adding local flavor, which is inspired by each local team’s input. The combination of sets, ideas and innovative lighting techniques, bring to […]
KTVA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska, is preparing to debut its new set and newsroom from Devlin Design Group. Devlin tweeted the photo above as a preview of the set, which appears to be a large open newsroom area curved headers, sliding glass panels and multiple flat screens. A recurring theme of the new […]
We all know that TV news loves covering after Thanksgiving shopping — so you would think someone who works at a TV station would remember that Black Friday is, well, on a Friday (and that Thanksgiving is always on Thursday). Jerry Taft, a meteorologist at ABC O&O WLS-TV in Chicago, rearranged the week a bit […]
Call it a little holiday magic, maybe. Sharp eyed viewers of Granite Broadcasting’s KBJR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Duluth, Minn., noticed some interesting phenomena going on during the station’s live coverage of the city’s annual “Christmas City of the North” parade — such as the fact the anchors weren’t wearing gloves. Or that their breath didn’t appear […]
WCPO-TV, the Scripps ABC affiliate in Cincinnati has announced plans to begin charging users to access certain parts of its website starting in January in what the station calls a first of its kind move to monetize digital content. The move follows the trend of newspapers putting their content behind so called “paywalls” that require […]
Canadian graphic display company Bannister Lake has released BL Snow Day, a school closures and local community events system for broadcasters, schools, municipalities and digital signage networks. BL Snow Day’s Web based workflow provides an unlimited number of content moderators the ability to schedule content for future playout and set story expiration. Automation and editorial […]
