North American Affilliates/Network Set Design

KLAS 8 - Las Vegas
Very Vegas looking.
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KGUN 9 -Tucson AZ
Snooze-fest

Congrats, @kgun9! Beautiful new way to present great newscasts. New set has launched! All the best from NYC tonight. pic.twitter.com/EJX6BDV266

— The Buzz About (@TheBuzzAbout) April 15, 2016

WTAE 4 - Pittsburg. So at this point all of the big 3 affiliates have updated their sets within months of each other.

Our editor @dakdillon visited @WTAE last week to photograph their new set from @DDGTV. #Pittsburgh pic.twitter.com/kqKajCSRdh

— NewscastStudio (@newscaststudio) May 17, 2016

KCRG -14 Jefferson City. Tiny affiliate for tiny market. New set and logo. Rather boring background. Seems like its a stopgap until they get more money to insert lcd array behind the presenters.
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Let the opinions fly!
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How many designers did KLAS 8 have? It seems they couldn't agree what style to go for, and went for all of them.

KGUN's set, blargh.

WTVF 5 - Nashville TN
They got a set designed by Park Place Studio. Ehh. A bit calmer than the version they designed for KLAS Las Vegas.



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Its not great. Very dark. But to be fair, here are some better piccys. That desk is hideous. Yuck.
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Weather - wahhhh????
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Soft area...the furniture??
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KCBS 2 - CBS Los Angeles. the major CBS O&O finally gets a major set upgrade. Both sets were done by BDI.
Old Set
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New Set - light bright and clean modern.
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Beautiful desk, but look at that green room looks incredibly claustrophobic.

Would have liked to see something more exciting for the second largest market, but anything is an improvement over that wooden monstrosity!

WBAL updated their set as a DDG one. Here are some tweets showing the set. The shot blocking looks great on camera.

Nice new set @wbaltv11 @DDGTV #newsers pic.twitter.com/YFjOq9wGYy

— Ryan Olsen (@rkolsen) July 26, 2016

Here's a look at the whole shabang pre-show... pic.twitter.com/uQhVptFMHu

— Jason Newton (@JNNewtWBAL) July 26, 2016

That KCBS desk is great. I dont know why I like the social media in the upper right.

It's because it's a huge empty gradient that looks like it needs filling, therefore your eye likes it when there's something in it.

It's very garish and busy, the screen array is very BBC News 2006 or late 90s CBBC. The wooden panelling looks like it's out of a Subway franchisee's brochure and the aluminium strips remind me of a mortuary freezer

KTVU in San Francisco seems to be in a temporary studio with windows looking out onto the marina opposite their studios...

About to go live on @KTVU w @MorganEliseJ to discuss our new doc @ThereRJewsHere pic.twitter.com/uXY3Se8wuv

— Brad Lichtenstein (@bradleylbar) July 30, 2016

I'm guessing this means there's a new set on the way and, if that's the case, I have high hopes.

Fox has given its O&Os some very nice sets recently - and they've avoided giving KTVU too much of the 'in your face' Fox treatment since they bought it. They actually introduced the standard Fox O&O titles and graphics, but they didn't go down well in liberal San Francisco so they scrapped them in favour of bespoke ones with a much more subtle Fox flavour.

The temporary set is already an improvement on their 2012 set, which already looks very dark and dated.

That's not a temporary set. They took some space on the sales floor and turned it into a secondary studio when the 9am newscast launched last year. It's a pretty creative resuse of things that were just sitting around before. The set is now used for the 9am, noon, 4pm, and 7pm newscasts. The main studio set is still used from 4-9am, 5-7pm, and for the Ten O'Clock News. There's also still the desk in the newsroom.

There was talk of the main set being replaced right when Fox came in in late 2014, but obviously that's never happened. Presumably they must be happy with the flexibility of the new set on the second floor. And if/when they do replace the main set, you'll probably never notice. They have the second floor set to work with, and they have an entire studio that's sitting empty 80% of the time in addition to the other studio.