Let’s go to the Chop Shop and Watch World “News” Tonight!

I’ve posted some remarks of WNT on my Instagram in the form of cute dear-diary like quality.

One I posted “I feel bad for every ABC affiliate (or even an O&O) that is top rated to do the painful handoff of local news to World News Tonight at 6:30 or 5:30″ (or if you live in the Bay Area), Disney’s KGO-TV is currently running the East Coast feed at 3:30 PM Pacific Time perhaps to fill up programming that may discontinue that live show in a month or so.

Friday night was like watching “local news” in say Lubbock, Texas, if only I knew what that kinda journalism is. I think the quality is shown below.

If I offended you those Texans, my apologies in advance.

What this picture shows is an apparent full screen graphic of a weather map, and it’s whited out. Thankfully the iPhone saw what I saw too.  Too white for a graphics of this type. Whether it’s over exposed by a technical mishap or extra layers- it’s really a CBA situation. It shouldn’t never went to air, and if the West Coast feed got this as well, it would show the low standards of what a “network newscast” should be.

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In Memory of the Old SportsCenter

I’ve been doing this stuff on Photoshop as of late

a Photoshop image of a reversed engineered graphic package of SportsCenter from the 1990s retrofitted for HD if they ever went back to their roots
Coming up next on SportsCenter: The Bruins got struck by Lightning in the Gahden
(Notice sexy graphics for the time meeting with gentle, amusing, one liner voice overs of context of hockey, if they kept with this format.)
This is a recreation of the 1 minute intro to the show at the time from 1994 to 1999 designed by me.

Once upon a time in Bristol, Connecticut from the studios of the once known Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, a 6 and 11PM news program called SportsCenter used to air the pre game stories, and a post game highlights on the respective time slots. In the beginning; the show was very stale because in the 1980s cable TV was not a profit making business. Like the Internet and dot-coms, they were loosing or hemorrhaging cash.  Continue reading