The Hazards of Live TV: #24,899
Switching from your High Definition studio picture…
To a Standard Definition feed while continuing to broadcast in High Definition…
September 13, 2007
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Loook at that head stretched good job fox, you made my night LOL…
Comment by don — September 13, 2007 @ 10:50 pm
Those screengrabs also show how inept FNC’s graphics department is. It only makes me think the worse for how FBN’s graphics are going to look.
Comment by SuperNoxic — September 13, 2007 @ 10:51 pm
SN, I would have to agree with you there, though FNC seems to make rare and occasional good products out of all this crap, like Studio B and Special Report, and then the cheap ones just look horrible, like this, Fox Online, and others.
Comment by Chris (clind) — September 13, 2007 @ 11:00 pm
They need to have graphics for each show. It just looks odd when some shows have their own graphics and some have the Fox News Live ones. I like the Fox Online Graphics & Americas Newsroom Graphics. I think they should drop the Title Banner and Replace them with either “Alert”, “Developing” or nothing. Its not a newspaper, views dont need headlines.
Comment by craig gordon — September 14, 2007 @ 4:58 am
I think the FOX News cube is an interesting idea…
Comment by FOXFan — September 14, 2007 @ 8:52 am
As a 25 year veteran newscast director. I cringe with alarming
frequency at all the mixed HD and SD mixing that I am seeing.
Its just sloppy.
Comment by Jay — September 14, 2007 @ 9:53 am
That was so ridiculous and sloppy. I had to change the channel. It didn’t acutally air on FNC though, it aired on Fox O & O.
Comment by jerziegrl — September 14, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
We’re going to have to put up with the SD/HD problems for a number of years, until everything is HD. Until then, those problems will just keep happening.
Comment by ImNotBlue — September 14, 2007 @ 6:18 pm
I believe it aired on all the Fox affiliates, jerziegrl, not just the O&Os.
Chris, how could you like the abominations that are the Studio B and new Special Report graphics?! :) I don’t think anything bothers me more than the B ones (the logo is great, however), from the “Breaking News Alert” to the huge parallelogram lower-third, to the six different random typefaces that are used, to the fading full-screen graphic, to the awful over-the-shoulder. They’re just bad. Can’t they find a good team to produce graphics that can convey the Fox flashy style while maintaining a polished look?
Comment by SuperNoxic — September 15, 2007 @ 2:40 pm
SN, Studio B is very polished in my opinion, and Special Report is another program that has had a decent transition into the Fox 3D style. Following the O&O style progression, making it come onto the cable channel is bound to occur with some extra flare, and B is just one example of that. The “on the phone” and people graphics are wonderful in my opinion, though the L3 would use some work, maybe more rounded like this.
Comment by Chris (clind) — September 24, 2007 @ 1:19 am
Hmm, I guess I’m realizing that my problem isn’t with the graphics themselves, it’s with the text: the placement of it, the appropriate sizing of it, and the awful fonts that are chosen (I shouldn’t be able to recreate the channel’s graphics with fonts that came with my computer). That’s where the problem lies, in my opinion. I do like the graphical elements of both Studio B and Special Report, it’s just the graphical text I find so off-putting.
Wow, now what you did there, Chris, is the very definition of polished. That’s absolutely perfect. You paid attention to margins and proportional text sizing, something FNC’s graphics guys NEVER do. That’s exactly what B’s L3s should be.
Comment by SuperNoxic — September 24, 2007 @ 2:34 am