WPTV New Graphics Intro October 2009

WPTV was the first Scripps station to get the new makeover.

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[jerseyfla]

My fellow Treasure coast residents need to start a email/letter writing campaign ala WPVI (I know it won't work, but it's a try.) to get WPTV to return to it's now former graphics package and music. This is absolute SH**!!!

[grahambrunk]

nah...

[Bororeed]

Such a step down from the Renderon graphics and NBC Collection music package.

[Videomaker91]

The names on the lower 3rd are not even on the right side.

[internationalvibe]

IT'S TIME FOR A NEW OPEN NOW SCRIPPS! Or better yet, let your stations go back to their own, unique branding look, much like the NBC O&O's have ironically done!

I REALLY hope they don't release this horrid, God-awful package that sadly eventually grows on you to their newly purchased McGraw-Hill stations! If they did that, then stations like WPTV and WEWS would or will probably have ended up keeping the package for 4 to 5 years once it's finally been replaced.

[internationalvibe]

@donmccullen I personally VASTLY prefer KSHB's custom-made newscast for their brand new 4:30 pm newscast (that's a few several months old now)! It looks so nice and when I first saw it I was so excited not only because it had some blue in it, but also because I thought Scripps had actually bothered to update all of their station's opens!

But sadly no. :(

[donmccullen]

@WizardDuck I just like the that Guitar solo that opens the WPTV, WEWS, and KSHB newscasts.

[WizardDuck]

@donmccullen It's catchy, but the more I watch any Scripps open the more out of place the music seems. In context it tries too hard to sound "youthful" and "relevant".

At least this isn't the orchestral version (as heard in WFTS and WCPO's opens), which is even more awkward, to me. It's probably that stupid musical logo.

[donmccullen]

@nextg The melody will grow on you.

[nextg]

These graphics were designed in-house (at WFTS). What were they thinking? Copper/caramel...ugh. (The big-ass L3s seen here were corrected shortly after the gfx were introduced.)

The music is from a company called Musikvergnuegen, better known for creating the Intel and LG sounders. Unfortunately, this package is nowhere near as memorable—and it has an awful signature (melody) to boot.

[internationalvibe]

With any luck, all of the stations will get a new look after the 2 year mark...after 2.5 years for sure, but if they manage to keep these horrid things for 3 years, then wow.

[eastest566]

Eric Glasser is now at my local CBS affiliate WTSP in Tampa.

[benvolio15]

I've never seen a circle-5 logo (a la WEWS) with the NBC peacock instead of ABC, until now. Interesting.

[geoffbruno]

@sanantonionewsman yes I agree, I think WCPO's logo and set work better with the new graphics