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TVNEWSER just published an Update on the pending changes to the icon WSVN newsplex, one of the most recognizable sets in local news history. Regarding the "throw-back" CRT montitor wall former WSVN vet Rick Sanchez says:
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“Those tiny monitors were one of the most brilliant tech looks ever,” Sanchez told TVSpy. “As I’d travel around the country, people would always ask about them and many tried to copy it.” Why has no station–even, to be honest, sister station WHDH–ever reproduced the look? Sanchez says it’s about the dimensions.
What they never realized was how small they were. Everybody got it wrong. They tried to re-create the look but their monitors were too big, therefore the ratio didn’t work and it made their sets look small. We looked bigger than life because the monitors were tiny. It served two purposes really. The first, as aforementioned was the ratio. The second, “frugality,” we got ‘em cheap. And to his credit, frugality, has always been (Sunbeam owner) Ed Ansin’s forte.
Sanchez says if the monitors go, someone might look for a large quantity of balled-up chewing gum he used to stick behind the CRT monitors before going live in the ‘Plex.
As for me, I’d hate to see them go. Like the teletype music bed for New York news radio station WINS, the look is a tie to the past that makes me happy. A monster vista wall wouldn’t be the same. If it goes, it should go directly to the Smithsonian.
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“Those tiny monitors were one of the most brilliant tech looks ever,” Sanchez told TVSpy. “As I’d travel around the country, people would always ask about them and many tried to copy it.” Why has no station–even, to be honest, sister station WHDH–ever reproduced the look? Sanchez says it’s about the dimensions.
What they never realized was how small they were. Everybody got it wrong. They tried to re-create the look but their monitors were too big, therefore the ratio didn’t work and it made their sets look small. We looked bigger than life because the monitors were tiny. It served two purposes really. The first, as aforementioned was the ratio. The second, “frugality,” we got ‘em cheap. And to his credit, frugality, has always been (Sunbeam owner) Ed Ansin’s forte.
Sanchez says if the monitors go, someone might look for a large quantity of balled-up chewing gum he used to stick behind the CRT monitors before going live in the ‘Plex.
As for me, I’d hate to see them go. Like the teletype music bed for New York news radio station WINS, the look is a tie to the past that makes me happy. A monster vista wall wouldn’t be the same. If it goes, it should go directly to the Smithsonian.