Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Basically an abuse of the graphics system that came with our recently-purchased in-house weather computer (KPBI had a five-minute weathercast weeknights at 9pm, of which on a handful of occasions I might have charitably been considered the producer). This was cranked out on Christmas Eve with no prior planning, but management liked the idea and it became the de facto legal ID for the night. Get to bed, brats! The Santa Detection System has picked up an incoming bogey! SCRAMBLE! SCRAMBLE!...to your beds. You're welcome, parents of Fort Smith. You're welcome.
A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY
I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections.
More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes of from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.)
I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.
Basically an abuse of the graphics system that came with our recently-purchased in-house weather computer (KPBI had a five-minute weathercast weeknights at 9pm, of which on a handful of occasions I might have charitably been considered the producer). This was cranked out on Christmas Eve with no prior planning, but management liked the idea and it became the de facto legal ID for the night. Get to bed, brats! The Santa Detection System has picked up an incoming bogey! SCRAMBLE! SCRAMBLE!...to your beds. You're welcome, parents of Fort Smith. You're welcome.
A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY
I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections.
More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes of from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.)
I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.
