NewscastStudio Blog

‘Anchorman’ sequel’s poster revealed

Michael P. Hill — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:48:42 +0000

For those waiting with baited breath for the “Anchorman” sequel, you can breathe a bit easier now. Paramount Pictures today revealed the first poster for “Anchorman: The Legend Continues,” which is shown above. The poster’s design accentuates a very shiny studio floor along with the shoes and pant legs of, presumably, the main characters and [...]

Channel 3 upgrades weather center with Mystic

NewscastStudio — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:30:48 +0000

Channel 3 Hartford approached Mystic with the desire to step up their current look and update their weather area for news casting. Once approached, Mystic decided to do the complete design and fabrication of the studio as an in house design/build project. Completion of the project resulted in a new back wall with monitors attached [...]

NYSE floor gets new look

NewscastStudio — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:31:53 +0000

One of the most used backgrounds on television news, the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, recently got a bit of a facelift to go along with parent company NYSE Euronext’s new logo and brand identity. Most of the changes involved swapping out backlit graphics and banners seen around the trading floor and [...]

L.A. station airs wrong team logo

NewscastStudio — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:47:43 +0000

KNBC-TV aired an OTS Monday with a story about Los Angeles teams involved in postseason play with the logos of the Lakers, Clippers and Kings. The Kings logo that was used, however, is actually the logo of the Sacramento Kings. The L.A. Kings called out the station on Twitter, and the station responded admitting its [...]

CNN announces 2nd annual iReport awards

NewscastStudio — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:39:19 +0000

CNN has announced the nominees for its second annual iReport awards. The 36 nominees, which can be viewed here, are broken down into six categories. CNN has assembled a team of seven judges, who range from CNN reporters Nic Robertson and Brooke Baldwin to staffers from Facebook, Vimeo and Storify, to select a winner in [...]

Beat the Traffic a finalist in the Red Herring 100

NewscastStudio — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:48:44 +0000

Beat the Traffic is a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 Americas award, a list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region. “This year was very rewarding,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “The global economic situation has abated and there are many great companies [...]

Pacifica Music adds Popvirus to its list of music libraries

NewscastStudio — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:48:28 +0000

Production music company Pacifica Music has added Popvirus Music Library (based in Munich, Germany) to its catalog. Pacifica will now represent Popvirus throughout the United States and Canada. The growing Popvirus Library currently boasts more than 200 albums spanning numerous and varied genres. Pacifica Music is home to over 8,000 well-produced tracks in a multitude [...]

John King’s ‘Magic Wall’ gets cover photo placement

NewscastStudio — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:09:05 +0000

We happened to notice that CNN updated its Facebook cover photo today and has decided to feature John King using the network’s “Magic Wall” at CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta. We previously wrote about cover photos and how various TV news pages are using them. Click here to see CNN’s page. Incidentally, ABC News added a cover photo [...]

Three-year-old genius makes interesting announcement on ‘Today’

Michael P. Hill — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:49:43 +0000

Here’s your Friday laugh. The “Today Show” had a three-year-old girl with an I.Q. of 135 and her family on today’s show. Watch and see what happens.

Cedar Rapids ABC added to SetStudio

Dak Dillon — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:31:16 +0000

We’ve received new pictures of KCRG-TV, designed by Devlin Design Group. Take a look in SetStudio. For more information, visit the DDG site.