I came across this Prime Local News clip of current ABC News NSW journalist Nicole Chettle from 1998.
Does anyone know which Prime bulletin she reported for?
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Same happened on HSV-6 (Seven Melbourne) where the 7 bug stayed on, I tuned the TV to another channel by then only seeing about one second of the bug.
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Nicole Chettle was a reporter for the Albury bulletin.
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Now, I have really bad hearing, half deaf infact. The past few months I have realised when watching the 7 channels (Prime7, Mate, Two) I haven’t had the sound on as high as I use too. So when Prime switched to Media Hub, did they change the audio or is it my hearing? - Thanks
No one has commented on Primes new watermark during the tennis.
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You just did
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It could just be the TV I’m watching this on but is the watermark, particularly the “live and free” component, strobing horribly on anyone else’s screen?
I’m hoping Prime doesn’t decide to adopt the solid red watermark on all programming now that WIN has solid blue mappy spoiling the viewing experience. I’m not watching a great deal of Australian free to air TV these days and I’m even less inclined to if networks persist with these shitty distractions on the screen. Good thing I’m going back to civilisation next week.
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Didn’t expect Prime to have there own watermark on sport.
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Not strobing on mine, but that thing is awful & blocky (you’d think they made it with Lego, no Duplo blocks).
And I agree I’m also extremely disinclined to watch when the likes of mappy are on-screen, and while this isn’t anywhere near as bad, it isn’t good. This is definitely an unwelcome change.
I wonder why suddenly the change from the previous? (Seven Network standard “Live & Free | 7”)
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Yeah it’s very blocky and pixelated. Makes the tennis look very cheap. Pirate bay Prime.
When did 7 start given Prime clean feeds on sport this seems like a mistake even there 7 logo does not look the best.
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Interesting. SCTV was using a design just like Seven’s tonight. So I guess this is what Prime does when Seven provides a truly clean feed without the Live & Free tagline.
I don’t get why this is even remotely related to mappy or a new era of solid marks. They’ve been copying Seven’s solid sports watermark for years, this is no different except the logo itself.
Perks of using red with a highly contrasted background on an MPEG-2 signal that has 4:2:0 subsampling.
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It would be even better if Prime7 used Seven’s style of “Live & Free” wording next to their logo but apart from that, it looks OK for a customised Sport “watermark”.
Of course having an awkwardly designed logo in red on a compressed MPEG2 SD channel with a highly contrasted background doesn’t look that great, but you’d expect that.
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GWN7 version has the same issues. It looks like Seven may have provided Prime with a clean feed as this event didn’t go live in all markets.
Some weird shadowing behind the text:
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Good to see they finally realised they aren’t Seven!
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Really? It’s just a brand, and most people refer to them as Channel 7.
(It’s like saying Channel 9 Perth and Adelaide weren’t really Nine when they were owned by a different company than the Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane Nine stations.)
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But the Adelaide and Perth stations were still Nine regardless of ownership. There was no change in brand - just maintaining dotless in the last few years.
Yeah but they still carried the Nine own and operated branding and they were an affiliate just the same as Prime and Southern Cross.
I remember they shoehorned the WIN logo into the “you’d better smiiiiiiiiiiile” idents in Perth and Adelaide.