I have to agree with Vostok. The green screen studios that Global is using just look really cheap. There is aliasing around the anchors which looks like someone hasn't quite got the hang of the pen tool in Photoshop and what's with the bogus latitude and longitude grids, the constantly moving lines and type that doesn't really say anything, the blurred monitors in the background that don't show anything. The whole production smacks of someone's idea of technical wizardry and self-importance when all it really does is create a sterile, generic environment that totally takes the newscast out of any connection with its community.
And for Global to roll out its HD studio without facilities and infrastructure to also implement HD, or at least widescreen, newsgathering and pick up the readily available HD feeds for other sports and national and international news packages is just so 2005, it's inexcusable in 2011.
I made the switch to BC-CTV long ago. Their newscast has more local content, better reporters, more professional production values, 95 per cent of which is HD.