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KXAS got their LED video wall. Their set dates back to 2013 when they move to their new building. It has a 4K horizontal resolution.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Biakl2DABut/

Best backdrop ever? #82 on the Dallas skyline. Thanks @JasonWitten for making us all proud. @NBCDFW @dallascowboys @MeredithNBC5 @KristiNBC5 pic.twitter.com/SUSarQBt31

— Brian Curtis (@BrianCurtisNBC5) May 4, 2018

One downside is it advertises a competitor. See if you can spot it.

That competitor is WFAA, who will be introducing a new studio in the next couple weeks!

In their plaza type studio where events are held. Next to American Airlines Arena for NHL and NBA. Everything but the late newscast comes from there.

Actually, all the newscasts come from there now. The area is called Victory Plaza.

Lester Holt is taking Nightly News across America. Monday was Portland, OR; Tuesday was Denver and Wednesday was Chicago. It’s likely a sweeps stunt but there are interesting stories he reports on. Tonight in Chicago they had to rely on the back up presenter twice to introduce segments. Storms were rolling in and affecting communications temporarily.

Sometimes the seat filler gets on the air.... Many thanks to the amazing @NBCNightlyNews team who made it look easy as @LesterHoltNBC battled a storm in Chicago. Safe travels to Pittsburgh my friend. I’ll be keeping your seat warm in NY!

— Kristen Dahlgren (@kristendahlgren) May 9, 2018

Also I saw this on my iPhone and thought it was a cool and semi rare shot of the local NBC helicopter in November:



I wonder what type of camera is used for tail rotor shots? It has to be small, weather proof but at the same time withstand vibrations from the tail rotor.

Last night or early this morning (what ever you want to call it) MSNBC broke into their recorded programming to carry breaking news coverage of the arrival of three Americans held prisoner in North Korea. When it was about time for the now released prisoners to disembark NBC took the MSNBC coverage. Here you see the MSNBC anchor give a brief hiccup, the full countdown as NBC affiliates take the special report and MSNBC transition to their special report simulcast graphics.

Anyone else in the UK finding that the websites of Hearst stations seem to be completely geoblocked?

A few examples where I get a basic 'this site is not available in your region' message...

http://www.wesh.com
http://www.wcvb.com
http://www.ksbw.com

I've known live streams to be blocked outside the US, such as with NBC O&O affiliates, but never whole sites.

Yep, same here

Probably an unintended consequence of NBC buying a controlling stake in Euronews since WESH 2 and KSBW 8 are NBC affiliates, which may also mean other NBC affiliated Hearst stations may fall under that as well. However that theory doesn't explain the Hearst stations unaffiliated with NBC and if that would affect them too.

Yeah the Euronews thing probably doesn't have any bearing. Hearst owns all kinds of stations, not just NBC affiliates. It's probably more of just Hearst being hyper sensitive about whether any content they post would run into legal issues abroad.

The Hearst websites are terrible anyway. A lot of it is aggregated national content from other Hearst stations and publishing properties, CNN, AP, and a bunch of other random sources. It sometimes feels impossible to find local content on them.

It's also worth pointing out that Hearst owns 20% of ESPN. Not that much, if any, ESPN content shows up on Hearst TV websites, as far as I know. But Hearst owns all kinds of editorial properties so I can see how they might take geoblocking too seriously given the potpourri nature of their TV sites.

Hearst sites have been geoblocked for about two months now.

I travel to Boston regularly and emailed WCVB to ask why... no explanation. It’s such an odd decision given that much of the content is still available on YouTube,
Facebook and so on

It’s not even UK / outside the US. Plenty of comments on Twitter about for example people in Florida not being able to access a Hearst site in Oregon, etc

One thing I’ve noticed about their aggregate content is that they are willing to identify the source before you click. The first scroll was all WBAL with either the logo on large content or just text on the side. And yes the sites are hard to navigate.