Bay Area's KTVU news goes high-def
by Matt Burns 
posted Oct 11th 2006 at 3:24PM
San Francisco Bay Area residents can now enjoy the highs and lows of their area's happenings thanks to KTVU's newly launched high-def news service. The feed went live today and the channel expects to produce 38½ hours of HD each week and boy should it be pretty. The station didn't just slap new HD cameras on tripods and call it good, oh no. There is a new set with animated footage in the background, HD graphics package, a new radar display, and even a high-def traffic mapping service, equipped with real time traffic sensors. KTVU joins the elite few stations nationwide to have HD local news but we sure hope that more and more stations are currently upgrading their equipment so we can report to you soon that your local station's news is going HD.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TheMatt @ Oct 11th 2006 3:47PM
I have to say after I got my HDTV, I pretty much only watch KUSA here in Denver. They have the HD news with the HD helicopter and everything. In fact, they just started an HD News at 9 pm on the old UPN affiliate here.
More HD news I say!
James @ Oct 11th 2006 3:54PM
Finally a HD morning news. ABC7 has the HD News Copter, but they just dont switch to the HD feed 98% of the time. But too bad this am, KTVU decided to zoom in on normal def camers (Sal for traffic) and for their news copter. i would rather have black bars than bad picture.
img eL @ Oct 11th 2006 4:08PM
WXYZ-ABC local news in Detroit went HD a fews days ago also
Shooby @ Oct 11th 2006 6:07PM
w00t! I live in San Jose, I'll be sure to watch the "KTVU Fox News at 10!"
NHL HD @ Oct 14th 2006 3:48AM
The KTVU broadcast studio and graphics look good. However, all the news footage is crappy Standard def, including the footage from the A's game which was broadcast in HD on Fox that night!