Beam Me Up, Global
No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. That’s just Global TV’s Peter Chura and Eva Kovacs being beamed in via hologram to bring you Wednesday evening’s news.
All joking aside, Peter and Eva were actually in the studio. The camera experienced iris trouble against the CG background, according to Peter’s Twitter feed.
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August 27th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Wow…that CGI background looks cheap even on a good night. Way to go Global for cutting costs and cutting quality at the same time. I feel bad for the employees, especially the one’s who end up looking like the fools, even though it’s not their fault!
August 27th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I’m with you Jay. They should get a real set and stop being so cheap. That background is horrible. You constantly see flickering lines around their bodies every night, especially around Eva’s hair.
Please Global… spend a few grand and get a real set!!
August 27th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Did Marty and Doc Brown fail in 1955?!!! Looks like Eva & Peter and fading from our time stream!!
BIFF TANEN hates Global. I knew it.
August 27th, 2009 at 11:32 am
It goes along well with the spelling mistakes.
August 27th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
but can WE really afford to pay for new stuff at global? a museum or tv news… we can’t have it all.
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August 27th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
@Mike: Global is a private broadcaster owned by Canwest. I think you have them confused with CBC.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
not at all. but when the owners of that company want money, who do they hit up?
August 27th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Hilarious! I missed it live, but of course Chris D. saw it.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I think they are using the LE version of the virtual set software.. you know, the ‘trial’ software that gets bundled with things.
Register the damn thing and “Enjoy seamless rendering of your on-air hosts with our HD-quality backgrounds”.
Seriously though, I’ve seen podcasts from people’s basements that look better than what Global is doing inside that chroma-green shipping container.
Tonight was interesting, they had a story on the A&W $1 thing for MS. Peter’s read was almost word-for-word what Andrea said in the subsequent commercial.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:14 am
This is what you get when you lay off all of your operations staff. Good job Vancouver!!!!!
November 20th, 2009 at 9:49 am
That CG background is horrible. There is a “blonde” in the background between Peter and Eva (yes, I know it is a fake background), and she is there EVERY day, EVERY newscast, day or night… I can’t stop watching the blonde, even though she does the same thing over and over every newscast. Someday she may do something different, but I will never know because I just can’t watch Global News anymore.