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NBC's Today Show local on-screen tickers

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spencerkarter85

Every morning on NBC's Today Show on the ticker slide (with the current time and local tempature and Today's webaddress or KLG & Hoda's one in the 4th hour) they ran local news tickers on bottom on the screen on the white background. Some used the NBC logo on it (like NBC O&O's like WNBC-4 or KNBC-4 for example, or non O&O like WCBD-2 in Charleston, SC) and with all capitol letters, but in the Greenville, SC market it shows headlines (with first letter in Capitol letter and the rest in lowercase) and places a WYFF-4 logo in the place of the NBC logo on the ticker screen, another I saw was WYFF's sister station WLWT-5 in Cincinnati, Ohio doing the same thing, but using capitol letters for news tickers. Some markets don't do local news tickers, like WAGT-26 in Augusta, GA or WMBF-32 in Myrtle Beach, SC for example. Haven't seen the ones on WIS-10 in Columbia, SC or WCNC-36 out of Charlotte, NC.

Does your local NBC station carry local news tickers during the Today Show in either capitol or lowercased letters, and NBC or local NBC affiliate logo? Or none at all?
 
WGBA Green Bay and WTMJ Milwaukee don't do it; but judging from their 'My First Huge HD Graphics Set' from Journal and the use of "Locals Only" (the most uninspired news music package in the history of the medium), they think the text is too tiny for us to read ::).

After about 20 minutes though they quickly get repetitive and aren't updated after 7:01; it's always the same six non-stories from the crime and entertainment blotters, weather and sports scores scrolling down, so I'd rather have without the ticker.
 
I haven't seen WDIV/Detroit in awhile but I recall them using capital letters, their station logo, and a mention of their website clickondetroit.com.
 
Our main NBC affiliate, WHDH Boston does the tickers with their circle 7 logo instead of the NBC logo. They use all capital letters, and also show temperatures with colored graphics. High temperatures with a red background and low temperatures with a blue background. I think they show sports scores as well.

The other NBC affiliate we can get here, WJAR Providence, doesn't do tickers at all.
 
WSFA (Montgomery, AL) uses the ticker; WPMI (Mobile, AL/Pensacola, FL) does not.
 
I've seen the ones from WNBC 4 in NYC recently. They just use regular NBC logo. On KNBC 4 in Los Angeles they used the NBC 4 logo (like WYFF used their own logo on the scrolls). Neat! WESH 2 in Orlando doesn't do this.
 
WVIT-TV (NBC) channel 30 of New Britain/Hartford, an NBC O&O, uses the ticker, as far as I know. Not sure if the "NBC Connecticut" logo is used on it, however.
 
KPRC in Houston does not use the bottom ticker during Today.... which is another proof about that affiliate that i've been mentioning for years. ::)
 
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