NewsCentral from my desk

If you don’t live in the Los Angeles area, you probably didn’t know there were some changes involving the station I work at. Namely, its gone from “CBS 2 News” and “KCAL 9 News” to “NewsCentral.” In terms of my work for the website, the new branding won’t affect too much of what I do. But it sure looks different from my desk. First, the new wallpaper that greeted me when I came back from vacation:

This wallpaper now graces every computer in the building, I believe. It replaces the old “2 | 9” logo with the blue background. I like this one a lot because I’ve always been partial to scenery, especially nature, wallpaper for my computers.

The NewsCentral newscasts debuted on Saturday night — my shift.

One thing possibly unique to my (favorite) desk is that its right in front of the three screens flashing the newscast logo and random scenes from Southern California. I’m guessing its there for when reporters or anchors are in front of the newsroom cameras. (FYI, sometimes you see me walking around behind the anchors as they do the teases for the next newscast. I really try not to get in these though, but sometimes you just don’t think about it.) There are offices separating me from the windows, so these are sort of my windows.

I was fascinated by the new daytime images they shot for the image roll, and apparently, so was reporter Dave Malkoff. He stopped by to check it out and marvel at the color. It was seriously amazing. If you’re on Facebook, check out the HD introduction of the NewsCentral brand, narrated by Ed Asner, uploaded by Dave. (Which he later uploaded to YouTube! Yay Dave!)

If you want to check out the image roll that fascinated Dave, I recorded it with my little camera. Hehehe.

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