#WBW: Spring 2016 – Spoofing Tegna’s This is Home Campaign
Local News Shouldn’t have to be presented in nine different color coded graphics In the minifig world, a competing station would follow a Tegna* format, […]
The First Friday Without Rooney – WGBH-TV’s Beat The Press Year in Review 2001
Please tune in at 6:55 pm Eastern Time on Friday, September 10th, 2021. It’s pure coincidence in my VHS tape library, an airing of the […]
Banned Phrases: “Local News Station”
I am hearing this phrase by many of the youngins’ – some maybe as old as me, but I feel older than them to request […]
R.I.P. WGBH-TV’s TOCN: The Aftermath Before Greater Boston
And WGBH, despite a tradition as the “Tiffany” station in the Public Broadcasting System [ahem… “Service”], is no exception. ’GBH is a national powerhouse, producing […]
Video Review: Grass Valley’s EDIUS NLE system
I like to have this site to feature software reviews like writing up critiques of new records of yester century. If you’re a creative pro […]
TBT: Meeting Emily Rooney (First ever meeting a local TV reporter) in 2016
Given the news that Beat The Press being canceled by Boston’s Channel 2 a couple weeks ago today, and I miss my own deadline for writing […]
Fox News Channel in late Summer 2001
This is a complete airing of The O’Reilly Factor in summer of 2001. According to industry scribes, FNC had adopted Vizrt for their animation of their […]
20 Years Later… Graphics Artists Learned about TV Burn-ins…
In the late summer of 2001, the graphics artists at the Fox News Channel introduced a new “bug” (industry lingo for the logo that’s featured […]
Analyzing Others Analyzing Beat The Press’ Cancelation by Boston’s Ch. 2
On that initial print from Boston-dot-com, they got a quote from Dan Kennedy from his personal blog (not related to his employers) his remarks of […]