Like a lot of broadcast hounds I turned on the new FOX5 and was shocked what I saw.
Their morning show looked highly unrehearsed....Arthel Neville who I have always enjoyed looked like a deer staring into headlights. The news set is unimaginative and dull. With the translucent glass with the yellow lights behind next to a hastily put up what looks like a 46" LCD screen one gets the feeling they are broadcasting from a church basement. One would think with them making their premiere on the last day of the week that they would have been in very intense rehearsals to make them look smashing. Instead, they had a very unprofessional look and feel on their first time out in the corral.
The camera work consistently on the live shots were extremely bouncy and uncoordinated as though the cameraperson had just held the camera for the first time. On one of the interviews the "LIVE" bug on the left top of the screen has a dark blue gradient and the woman they were interviewing looked as though she had gone to the Star Trek school of cosmetology with Uhura.
What gets me is that they have decided to broadcast all of their shows -- even non news -- in 16:9. Which makes for those of us who are still in a 4:3 world look at an image with the onscreen graphics running off the sides of my television set.
I give the new FOX5 a B- or a C.
Their morning show looked highly unrehearsed....Arthel Neville who I have always enjoyed looked like a deer staring into headlights. The news set is unimaginative and dull. With the translucent glass with the yellow lights behind next to a hastily put up what looks like a 46" LCD screen one gets the feeling they are broadcasting from a church basement. One would think with them making their premiere on the last day of the week that they would have been in very intense rehearsals to make them look smashing. Instead, they had a very unprofessional look and feel on their first time out in the corral.
The camera work consistently on the live shots were extremely bouncy and uncoordinated as though the cameraperson had just held the camera for the first time. On one of the interviews the "LIVE" bug on the left top of the screen has a dark blue gradient and the woman they were interviewing looked as though she had gone to the Star Trek school of cosmetology with Uhura.
What gets me is that they have decided to broadcast all of their shows -- even non news -- in 16:9. Which makes for those of us who are still in a 4:3 world look at an image with the onscreen graphics running off the sides of my television set.
I give the new FOX5 a B- or a C.