WB39 News is no more.
Tonight at 10pm CW News made its debut headed by Julia Yarbough. The new name and a new look. The lower third and bug have the same outline as the NBC6 graphics.
Strangely the graphics are a nice blue-ish hue with a light brown logo which I thought was great considering how green CW network is
If I can I’ll get some caps up
CW Boston launched tonight as well, very little in the way of change though, only a new logo and new mic flags…no new music/graphics.
Michael
http://www.hinghamweather.com/bostontvnews
I really hope you can get some screen caps up. I’m away from South Florida at college and can’t see the new look. Here’s a question: where is the newscast originating from? The main set or with the newsroom behind the anchors? The main set means they would have had to purchase to backgrounds. So I’m curious if they took that approach or just went with the newsroom background with the logo in the plasma monitor.
Just to get this straight, there is only one Martha Sugalski, right? It funny how the CW39 has her as the 10 o’clock news anchor with Julia Yarbough on their website. I would think that after recreating the website they would have cut her from the page. Instead, they updated it to say, “Julia Yarbough currently co-anchors the CW News at Ten with Martha Sugalski.”
I saw that too
But I suspect they just changed the template colors and logo and probably not from Channel 39 but the mothership.
They’ll notice, eventually 😀
Jason,
You’re truly not missing anything at all. They changed the backgrounds on the WTVJ set, but they’re even uglier than what TVJ uses. At least the WB backgrounds looked better than the TVJ stuff. The WSFL website address is even written on the background, for pete’s sake!!! It’s really ugly.
The theme music sounds okay. I notice the voice-over is by Jim Cutler. The same person who provides news and station voice-overs for various other TV stations, including WPIX, WPHL, and WGCL. I notice that WSFL (formerly WBZL) decided not to include the “39” in the new logo… I notice that Tribune sister station KHCW (formerly KHWB) included the “39” in theirs. I don’t particularly like the graphics choice that WSFL and WTVJ made for the 10 p.m. newscast. The set looks somewhat okay to me.
Just my critique.
I’m really unhappy with the Jim Cutler voice over choice instead of Brian Lee. Lee’s voice is all over NBC right now with “Studio 60.” And in the clip on the Southern Media News Music Archive… Cutler says “N-B-6, instead of N-B-C-6!” What a horrendous error! They let that on-air??? Plus the VO makes it sound like it’s an entirely sun-sentinel driven newscast and the only thing WTVJ provides is a studio. And the music sounds bad too. I’ve only heard the cut online so I can’t speak to the full clip.
I actually posted the open, and I agree that it’s not as good as Image. Personally, I would have changed the theme to something we already know. I’ll see if I can get a clean version of the music up if you want.