KPHO/KTVK Arizona's Family News Open (4:30 AM), 12/22/2020

Open from the combined morning newscast on KPHO CBS 5 and independent KTVK 3TV in Phoenix, Arizona both owned by Meredith Corporation.

The two stations have been increasing the amount of simulcasts since the start of the pandemic as a cost control measure and to reduce redundancy. For now until the new graphics debut Monday, the two stations are using KTVK's graphics and music for most simulcasts (except the noon which uses KPHO's graphics and music). This will change however.

The Meredith Phoenix duop for the most part puts put a good product. The one thing that irks me is the use of Calibri for the "Arizona's Family" font. If there's three fonts in my opinion that should never be used on TV it would be: Comic Sans, Calibri and Times New Roman, in that order. I can tell you that will be continuing in their new look if promos are any indication.

The music is Propulsion V.1 from 615 Music. The opens do not contain any voiceover but the station voice is Brian Lee (with Steve Wood for sponsor bumps; both are from KTVK pre-Meredith).

Anchors are Tess Rafols, Gina Maravilla, and meteorologist April Warnecke (again all veterans of KTVK before Meredith took over, are you sensing a pattern here?).

Hint: KTVK was the stronger station dating back to its days as the market's ABC affiliate while KPHO has long struggled in the ratings since becoming a CBS affiliate after being a heritage independent (imagine if KPHO had signed up with Fox instead of passing it over in 1986 - there very well may have been no affiliation changes).

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[theidjunkie]

When all the Merediths have updated I plan on doing a montage of all their new graphics into one video.

[imaofficeboy]

Calibri is ok IMO....but i agree with the rest (except for KIII3’s use of Times New Román). As always, great video!

[bruh]

What's different about the graphics? They look the same to me. On an unrelated note, I've just captured 99.9 KEZ's flip to AC (along with their new station ID). I might create a separate YT channel to upload it all onto.

[SoulView]

To dma37dude - Are you going to cover the remaining Meredith stations New Graphics known as Western Mass News: WSHM-LD/WGGB-TV/DT2, Cable 6 for finishing the bow on 2020? is there any updates? Please respond - if any, or anyone who can answer?