The original post got borked, sorry.
Here’s some screencaps from yesterday and noon today. Best viewed with a monitor resolution @ 1024×768
I personally like it, except that red paneling looks cheap in HD. The logo and text should have been 3D like the original CGI graphics, and the flat panel is too small
Almost forgot — notice the new font next to the 7 logo. I think that will be the font they use in the new graphics
Is this sat center where the old “news room” was?
i havn’t really notice anything like WOW although i do like there new stand up area with the plasma i guess behind it?
reply to IB:
not really…this set is where the old (like 10 years ago) “national satelite center” used to be (think bank of tv’s with one big one angled towards the camera for standups…
in the picture of delrish, you see a room on the far left of the screen…the really old newsroom (pre-plex) used to be back there…now its where they edit all the tapes for the newscasts, and the web center, and the boss’ offices
How big is the Bldg for WSVN?
Thanks insider!!
Are there still tape machines just outside the control room? (upstairs)
Its the same thing.
IB:
no, the tape machines are in “tape center” which is downstairs, just across the room from this satellite center set.
Agreed with Admin.
The flat panel seems lost compared to the large sat center logo. Why not ditch the flat panel, load a 3d 7 logo and run the gfx on the large screen where the logo is now?
They did not ask.
It seems they have a lack of creativity, if anyone of you have seen HDH’s set; at least they know how to make some arrangements to the plex 2.0 up in Boston, when i first saw the redesign work i thought that the logo (7satellite center) was in fact a large projection screen like the one WFOR has to the left of the achors desk showing sometimes a spinning earth (?) but to my surprise it was just a logo, and the flat pannel just looks boring, the red columns would’ve looked nicer with white neon lights where the steel rails are, maybe some ambient lighting would look cool inside the red columns like the FOX Sports set, but deep inside i think the redesing its somewhat better than the old deco style it had.
The floor is badass.
I am loving it, nice changes.
Reply to Michael–
Go to Google earth and you can Fly over the SVN building.
GORGEOUS!
Puts our 7 Satellite Center to shame here in Boston
Not a fan of the red paneling. The rest of the set is breathtaking though. I love the floor.
By the way, when did they start the whole “7 reasons” thing
Mike it’s been there a long time, since May sweeps of 2000 or 2001. They only use it during sweeps
thanks for the info, i guess this is the 1st time i have ever noticed it.
The only weird thing is that it’s the “satellite center”. But yet it’s always been just a stand-up area with a screen. There are no extra monitors or electronics or VTRs or anything to make it feel like it’s the area where satellite feeds are coming in. Same things goes for WFOR. Their satellite center is just 3 monitors that also double as the set for UPN33 News at 10.
Only WTVJ really has a real satellite center shot , since those shots are actually done in their satellite feedroom. In fact, even back when WTVJ was in the downtown Miami building, they had a satellite center on-set. It wasn’t really the feedroom, but at least it was designed to look like an area where feeds might come in.
It is the satellite center, one side is the standup the other side is where the tape decks are and all the satellite feeds. You can often see people swapping tapes, rewinding CNN or Fox News etc..
Sometimes they would have an achor on each side and using the jib camera to sweep from one side to the other of the sattelite center, one anchor would toss to the other saying “now let’s go to ___________ who’s on the other side of the satellite center”
The just redesigned side is only used for stories that are not local. While the side with all the tape decks is sometimes used for local breaking news, and oddly then anchors would toss to the reporter saying he/she is in the newsplex even though they’re standing up in the sat center
Our “Satellite Center” (here at 7 News Boston) isn’t labeled any longer with the recent completion of our newsplex revamp. Now, the stand up area overlooks the actual satellite feed room (behind a red, backlit glass wall) with a hanging, rotating plasma encased in steel-looking material. Previously, the area was closed off and contained a large projection monitor and then later a duratrans world map and plasma monitor.
i do like the floor of the new sat center
question for the guy from boston…
while walking out the rear door at the station, i noticed a bunch of crates all packed up with labels that said “from: whdh-tv to wsvn-tv.” they had a spray-painted new england patriots logo on the tops…any idea what they are? are we getting left-over set peices from whdh.
if so, how unoriginal and CHEAP is that???
Maybe they recycle materials, that’s cool. I hope they do, no need to waste things that can be reused
Btw, Rob doesn’t work for WHDH 🙂 he’s only addicted to them 😛
Admin…
I know where you live.. and don’t speak too soon on that “not working for WHDH” thing.. ha ha 😉
Rob
hey what happend to the recent comments >.
which recent comments?
The “Recent comment’ link in the sidebar?
There were issues with the PHP so I had to edit it out for the time being till I figure out what’s up
I think this is where the weather center used to be is this true??? It is a beautiful set.
nope. this is where the old satellite center used to be. 😉
The font looks the same to me…it looks like serpentine but not italicized
DJB,
I think its really retarded that they put it there because now they have all that empty space where the old weather center used to be now I think that is just plain stupid if I were the one to decide where that went I would put that by the old Weather Center dont you guys agree???
I disagree Brandon. If I’m going to build a new satellite center, I would put the new one in the old one’s place. Otherwise they’d end up with disorganization. It would be completely illogical for them to put the satellite center in the studio for several reasons. Now when a feed comes in, they’re not near the other part of the satellite center where the feed comes in, but in the studio. And when the weather person is going to do a stand-up weather thing, instead of taking a couple steps over to the set, they have to walk to the other side of the building. The weather set was close to the weather office, and the satellite center is close to the newsplex.
PLUS, the satellite center is really a small set, and it can be well lit in the corner that it’s in. That leaves the studio space open for a much larger and more elaborate set than what you could build in the corner.
That’s my 2 cents.
DJB,
Thanks very much you seem to know your stuff I like that.
We’ve done the set, now all we need is some new gfx and music!
No problem, Brandon. 😉