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CNN Abandons Ticker - New CNN Graphics and HLN logo

jal41 said:
Speaking of Breaking News...the Breaking News graphic is now yellow instead of red (just like CNN International). Given how red is associated more with breaking news...it seems weird.
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Wow, have you guys hit on a nerve here! Breaking News is probably the most overused term/graphic in all of television right now. And it's international. During the coverage of the Mumbai atrocities, you would occasionally see snippets of video from Indian cable news channels and all were flashing the term "breaking" in one way or another. The most egregious was a huge graphics wall with an anchor standing in front of it that was completely red with the words "Breaking News" scrolling in rapid succession.

Of course, in that case, the news was actually "breaking". In the States, that term gets used for some information that's pretty old - or just not all that important. It is truly becoming a term that is a self fulfilling parody.

One other note, while on the subject of graphics: this weekend, our Comcast system added Fox News HD. The trouble is that it's essentially the same 4:3 program (in higher resolution), squished to the left. Along the right side of the screen is an array of 3 information windows, aligned vertically and constantly changing. Talk about information overload!! There's no way that you can read all that stuff and watch the programming. They need to rethink this......
 
BRNout said:
... this weekend, our Comcast system added Fox News HD. The trouble is that it's essentially the same 4:3 program (in higher resolution), squished to the left. Along the right side of the screen is an array of 3 information windows, aligned vertically and constantly changing.
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Change? On Fox News, the anti-Obama network? No!
 
BRNout said:
jal41 said:
Speaking of Breaking News...the Breaking News graphic is now yellow instead of red (just like CNN International). Given how red is associated more with breaking news...it seems weird.
Click to expand...

Wow, have you guys hit on a nerve here! Breaking News is probably the most overused term/graphic in all of television right now. And it's international. During the coverage of the Mumbai atrocities, you would occasionally see snippets of video from Indian cable news channels and all were flashing the term "breaking" in one way or another. The most egregious was a huge graphics wall with an anchor standing in front of it that was completely red with the words "Breaking News" scrolling in rapid succession.

Of course, in that case, the news was actually "breaking". In the States, that term gets used for some information that's pretty old - or just not all that important. It is truly becoming a term that is a self fulfilling parody.

One other note, while on the subject of graphics: this weekend, our Comcast system added Fox News HD. The trouble is that it's essentially the same 4:3 program (in higher resolution), squished to the left. Along the right side of the screen is an array of 3 information windows, aligned vertically and constantly changing. Talk about information overload!! There's no way that you can read all that stuff and watch the programming. They need to rethink this......
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Which Comcast system is this? I'm in the New Haven area and we still just have CNN and a very limited array of HD channels. Given my recent cable rate increase, I really want to see more HD channels.
 
Sounds like what CNBC did with their HD channel. It's like the poor man's way of going HD.
 
kms575 said:
BRNout said:
Which Comcast system is this? I'm in the New Haven area and we still just have CNN and a very limited array of HD channels. Given my recent cable rate increase, I really want to see more HD channels.
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Rolling Meadows/Schaumburg/Northbrook, IL (north of Chicago) just added it and FX HD. Oddly, they did so quietly with absolutely no fanfare. I just looked at the program schedule earlier this week and there were the new channels. They send messages about nonsense like UFC, yet nothing about the added channels.
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BRNout said:
One other note, while on the subject of graphics: this weekend, our Comcast system added Fox News HD. The trouble is that it's essentially the same 4:3 program (in higher resolution), squished to the left. Along the right side of the screen is an array of 3 information windows, aligned vertically and constantly changing. Talk about information overload!! There's no way that you can read all that stuff and watch the programming. They need to rethink this......
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Sorry to bump this thread, but you wouldn't happen to have been watching "The Live Desk", were you? Because that's basically its format, SD or HD. The real test would probably be if you had "The O'Reilly Factor" on...
 
I noticed over at Fox News Channel they have started using the word "Urgent" in their graphics. Great, now we have to figure out what the difference between "breaking news" and "urgent" is.
 
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