World Wide Web Sites About Local Television and Radio Markets

[Mario500]

You may discuss and list sites dedicated to local television and radio markets.

Here are some links to two sites of interest to me:

Mobile (Alabama) TV Examiner

Mobile (Alabama) Radio Examiner

[Bob in Jersey]

Mobile has a problem probably (still) endemic to one extent or another throughout the nation: the lack of cooperation between stations and cable over 16:9 aspect ratio transmissions, which are now the norm in OTA TV post-digitalization. (I'm still waiting to see the whole picture from WFMZ out of Service Electric.)

-- B.

[David Lynch]

On 18 June 2013 09:44, Bob in Jersey <bob.in...@juno.com> wrote:

Mobile has a problem probably (still) endemic to one extent or another throughout the nation: the lack of cooperation between stations and cable over 16:9 aspect ratio transmissions, which are now the norm in OTA TV post-digitalization. (I'm still waiting to see the whole picture from WFMZ out of Service Electric.)

 

I don't think you're missing much. It's been 10 years since 16:9 TVs started to become ubiquitous and most over-the-air TV (virtually everything in first-run syndication where I've paid attention and three out of the big four networks, with Fox as the exception) still seems to be framed with the assumption that it's being seen in center-cut 4:3 -- it's particularly noticeable with station/network logo bugs floating in the middle of nowhere way off the corner of a HD feed, all of the news/sports graphics that don't ever go to the edge of the screen, and wide shots where everyone is crammed into the middle part of the screen with nothing meaningful on the leftmost 22% or rightmost 22% of the screen.

 

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David J. Lynch
djl...@gmail.com

[Adam Bowie]

That's interesting as in the UK most major providers have now decided that everyone has 16:9 and they put their logos and bugs right into the corners.

I'm not even sure that anyone is framing for anything except 16:9 either.

Adam

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[Bob in Jersey]

David J. Lynch, to me:

I don't think you're missing much. It's been 10 years since 16:9 TVs started to become ubiquitous and most over-the-air TV (virtually everything in first-run syndication where I've paid attention and three out of the big four networks, with Fox as the exception) still seems to be framed with the assumption that it's being seen in center-cut 4:3 -- it's particularly noticeable with station/network logo bugs floating in the middle of nowhere way off the corner of a HD feed, all of the news/sports graphics that don't ever go to the edge of the screen, and wide shots where everyone is crammed into the middle part of the screen with nothing meaningful on the leftmost 22% or rightmost 22% of the screen.

Ah, but are the commercials the same way?  -- B.

[Mark Jeffries]

Yesterday, I noticed on an HD set that a CBS promo for the resolutely-still-in-SD "Big Brother" (because they don't want to spend the money) was in HD, because the borders to fill the HD screen were there and the graphic pages and--THE INSERT SHOT OF CHENBOT SAYING SOME BIT OF HYPE--were in HD.

Fox still has the main Gordon Ramsay shows made in SD, but in 16:9 (although the graphics are still framed for 44:3, I presume since there are still a number of SD feeds in 4:3.  And as long as CBS/CW and ABC are sending out the entire SD schedule in 4:3 (and NBC still feeds news and reality shows in 4:3), they'll continue to frame everything that way.

Mark Jeffries
Saints Spotlight Editor
spotl...@gmail.com

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