CTV Local News is going down... (Current CTV News critique)
...the you know what.
The Globe and Mail story on the Vancouver portion of Canada AM being CANCELLED.
Mi-Jung Lee and Rena Heer were pretty good on Canada AM, I liked the variety and it was what made it a little bit bearable...
Speaking of that, 2 years ago, I asked about HDTV local/national newscasts on CTV, their response: "The equipment is connected, but it's not on yet." Oh really? it's been 2 years and no true 1080i newscasts? (is this Marketing BS?) The National beat Lloyd Robertson for HD national newscasts and the entire CBC/Radio-Canada local affilates are all in WIDESCREEN now (480i for local, true 1080i for The National), when the best CTV could do was the HDTV broadcast of Michelle Jean's inauguration... they're now no longer talking about CTV HDTV newscasts anymore.
I like some of the stuff they did, such as "Dead End Streets", But... recently the format has changed to the American style of newscasts (minus the seamless transitions from story to story, they overlap the last word of a story with the first word of the next story, that's how fast they talk.) You need a competitive edge... true 1080i HDTV ENG. XDCAM HD is the new ENG industry standard, I'd be surprised if a HD US Local News affiliate doesn't use it.
Global, although still using old school 1980s Betacam SP, retain the Canadian style of reporting and presentation. The National is sort of leaning towards the NBC Nightly News style but is still uniquely Canadian. CTV National News is unique as well.
I know of someone at CTV by means of a Blog: Murray Titus. You can check it out here. I'm not giving total crap to him for how much it's all going downwind, he still does sweet Chopper 9 compilations... Just wish it was true 1080i HD.
Final comment: Graphics. CTV Vancouver probably got 3D templates from ESPN to create 3D graphics for section intros such as "Where We Live". Overdramatic and too much eyecandy (for SD, HD is a different story, as I'm about to explain). HD is marketed to make people go "Wow." The current 3D graphics simplified and cleaned up of unnecessary effects in HD would achieve the "Wow" factor.
The Globe and Mail story on the Vancouver portion of Canada AM being CANCELLED.
Mi-Jung Lee and Rena Heer were pretty good on Canada AM, I liked the variety and it was what made it a little bit bearable...
Speaking of that, 2 years ago, I asked about HDTV local/national newscasts on CTV, their response: "The equipment is connected, but it's not on yet." Oh really? it's been 2 years and no true 1080i newscasts? (is this Marketing BS?) The National beat Lloyd Robertson for HD national newscasts and the entire CBC/Radio-Canada local affilates are all in WIDESCREEN now (480i for local, true 1080i for The National), when the best CTV could do was the HDTV broadcast of Michelle Jean's inauguration... they're now no longer talking about CTV HDTV newscasts anymore.
I like some of the stuff they did, such as "Dead End Streets", But... recently the format has changed to the American style of newscasts (minus the seamless transitions from story to story, they overlap the last word of a story with the first word of the next story, that's how fast they talk.) You need a competitive edge... true 1080i HDTV ENG. XDCAM HD is the new ENG industry standard, I'd be surprised if a HD US Local News affiliate doesn't use it.
Global, although still using old school 1980s Betacam SP, retain the Canadian style of reporting and presentation. The National is sort of leaning towards the NBC Nightly News style but is still uniquely Canadian. CTV National News is unique as well.
I know of someone at CTV by means of a Blog: Murray Titus. You can check it out here. I'm not giving total crap to him for how much it's all going downwind, he still does sweet Chopper 9 compilations... Just wish it was true 1080i HD.
Final comment: Graphics. CTV Vancouver probably got 3D templates from ESPN to create 3D graphics for section intros such as "Where We Live". Overdramatic and too much eyecandy (for SD, HD is a different story, as I'm about to explain). HD is marketed to make people go "Wow." The current 3D graphics simplified and cleaned up of unnecessary effects in HD would achieve the "Wow" factor.
posted by Jack Zhang at 6/09/2008 03:35:00 PM
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