WCSC News Open October 2008

[jhshifris1]

What's wrong with purple?

[ctmajka]

My God.

[ScenicMirages]

Crappy ass logo there.

[shongaloosmarts]

This looks somone threw some purple here, purple there...HD emblem here...logo here...some stuff spinning...BAM! that's their open!

[shongaloosmarts]

Whoever picked these colors had to have been color-blind!

[ZoneCountry]

Live 5 isn't what it used to be from what I've heard recently....

[BlaineStewartWTKR]

purple is a great color on air, if used correctly. this, however, is a hot mess.

[ipeters61]

@BlaineStewartWTKR WBTV's open knows how to use purple.

[TaylorMMontgomery]

@BlaineStewartWTKR blaine. hot mess. hahaha. :)

[bhratbrat]

@BlaineStewartWTKR Blaine, i agree with you. certainly the L3s look really messed up (not the bar itself, but the stuff underneath)

[macsrule94]

Is this station owned by Raycom Media?

The graphics look similar to WBTV Charlotte's Graphics which is owned by Raycom

[hkfreak]

Note in the lower third that at one point, the digital garble says: ERROR.

That is not good design.

[DrFubarProzak]

@hkfreak your life is an error...please end it.

[hkfreak]

@DrFubarProzak Try harder.

[DrFubarProzak]

@hkfreak You're just as annoying as Julius...with your incessent ramblings about shit you don't know about.

[hkfreak]

@DrFubarProzak You are a class of your own in stupidity. Please, use your brain or better yet, just shut up.

[DrFubarProzak]

@hkfreak no i wont shut up until you permanently disappear from posting here. you fucking moronic retard

[BlakDog06]

I like the graphics. But I can't picture them on WWBT (also a Raycom station) here in the Richmond area.

[tommeedee]

The music is good, but the graphics are a mess. Debi Chard is lost in a sea of distracting, annoying graphics! Terrible!

[penske13]

yea, your right. very cluttered. the composition sucks.

[bluekittySC]

I love seeing this. Thank you so much for uploading this. I was born and raised in Charleston, SC and have been living in Pittsburgh, PA for 3 years now. I miss Charleston very much. It's so nice to see familiar faces.

[j4chri]

The graphics aren't that bad

[ctmajka]

The only station I think that pulled off purple successfully was WLS before the graphics change.

They even still use some elements pf purple in some of the graphics...This is just REALLY bad.

[SilentDrifter03]

PURPLE? What is this? Who came up with this idea of over doing graphics and I don't even wanna know anymore.

[fl2k9]

YUK! and I thought the Gannet Graphics Package were bad, until I saw these....YUK; Get RID of these RayCOm...someone actually got paid for these to be used on TELEVISION?

[newwi883]

This looks just like KHNL News 8's new HD opens.

[newwi883]

They're Raycom too and just switched to HD

[jdcnow]

Agreed to all. "This is Mechanical News at 5:00"

[hkfreak]

When they do news in Taiwan, there isn't really a set, rather, it's all done on a greenscreen and it's way too oversensationalized, so much so, that these graphics look like a tropical ecosystem when compared to them. Especially on all 5 (or 6) 24-hour cable news networks there. "24-hour Mechanical News Network".

[clinds]

Good lord, this makes me think of the CNBC relaunch in '05, shiny and glossy waaaaay over done, and PURPLE? Whoa!

[hkfreak]

PURPLE....harder to use than Green, though, don't you think? I mean, c'mon, aren't you guys tired of the primary colors, b&w and orange? Mix up the palatte, damnit!

[growingup15]

i really hope wistv dont change there graphics to this ugly raycom graphics its so freaking ugly. i hope they used a good nbc graphics.

[csworldwide101]

Oh hell no, new Raycom Graphics. And the logo looks ugly as hell. I hope WTOC doesn't use the graphics whenever they get their HD did together.

[hkfreak]

Well, they're 3 markets apart from them and physically not too far, either. What's the point in all that? Most likely the same exact color scheme, just a logo change or branding or wording..."keep it regional" as someone said to me...

[newsguru90]

The Raycom HD graphics are very blocky, just like every other package in use by their stations. They're not horrible, but they are kind of tacky. WCSC's variation of these isn't the worst I've seen though. The KRIV series of Enforcer has got to go...I'd rather hear One and Only or Image on this open.

[shongaloosmarts]

@newsguru90 Check out the graphics by Raycom at KSLA...its on my page..I think they look a lot better than this!

[Mocaluos]

@newsguru90 The graphics are similar to WMC TV's

[growingup15]

you can tell this is raycom graphics.

[sanantonionewsman]

I like their varation of the Raycom graphics. The music is great as well. Huge step up for WCSC.