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Olympic broadcaster... plus the fact the Winter Olympics are just six weeks away.

Almost every NBCUniversal channel that will be broadcasting the games has their Olympic Rings up. The rings also appear during the CNBC business day. Generally the Olympic Rings for the Winter Olympics appear on screen in proceeding September and in January for the Summer Olympics.

For NBC Sports programming on NBC or NBCSN the Olympic Rings generally appear during events (qualifiers and other championships) that relate to the Olympics regardless of which games are next in line.

TEGNA station groups has introduced a new graphic package for all of its stations across the US. Its a flat graphics package that is quite simple in nature. Using local images as part of the package and simple white lines. Apparently many of the stations will retain their logo just reversed out in white in a simple white box against a beauty shot of the local area.

The graphics made their national debut. NBC was dipping in and out of KING 5’s coverage today of the deadly Amtrak train derailment that killed six.

Really nice. I've always liked that style of graphics.

Probably the nicest US news graphics I've seen. Very nice.

There's a bit of London Live in there too I notice

That's classy as hell

They're looking pretty smart. In a way, they are in some respects an evolution on the lower thirds that King 5 and some of the other stations had previously but going for a complete flat look. The 'coming up' menu listed as a tower on the right seems to be a neater solution to what they had before where the menu was along the bottom, under the caption.

For those curious what they looked like before, an example can be found here...

The networks of NBC are carrying the 2018 Winter Olympics and coverage will be airing on CNBC, NBC, NBCSN, USA and their sister channels Telemundo and NBC Universo

Here is a reel of how KUSA 9 Denver has used the use TEGNA graphics package. They have a basic cold open.

Hoda Kotb has been named as the new permanent co-host of NBC's Today.

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