Well this is odd. For some reason, they're not broadcasting Weather Center in 16:9, so they're adding pillarboxes to the screen. Thing is, is the "blurred background" really an idea for a new pillarbox of sorts?
A lot of HD stations do that when the source is in SD.
Yea. Was the entire show like that? Perhaps they are still adjusting things in getting rid of the sidebar
The segment about that pier was recorded in SD. There may have been other segments of that report that were recorded in HD, so for the SD portions, the editors used those special pillarboxes instead of just leaving them black.
