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Dear WBZ, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??????????

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kramie13

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Why why WHY does WBZ need to "distract" me during NCAA March Madness and display its call letters over the score bug? (See attached screenshot.) They did this during the Super Bowl last month too! Last I checked they're a network owned-and-operated station in a top 10 market! UNACCEPTABLE!

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Minneapolis does it too and they are a O&O....and they have 2 stations to ID (WCCO Minneapolis/St Paul, KCCW Walker)...KCCW is a satellite station.

KEYC Mankato, MN (only station in the market) does the same thing all the time.
 
kramie13 said:
Why why WHY does WBZ need to "distract" me during NCAA March Madness and display its call letters over the score bug? (See attached screenshot.) They did this during the Super Bowl last month too! Last I checked they're a network owned-and-operated station in a top 10 market! UNACCEPTABLE!

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The teams, the score, the half, the time remaining, even the shot clock -- all perfectly visible. What is so WRONG with this that you had to manufacture such outrage that TEN EXCLAMATION POINTS WERE NECESSARY??????????

Also, did this actually distract you? Your use of quotation marks around the word indicates otherwise.
 
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Personally....I can think of many other "distractions" TV gives me, much worse than a 5-10 second legal ID supered on the screen at top-hour.....
My biggest pet peeve is with NBC Boston 10's ID structure --- or lack thereof!!!! They just drop a "quickie" in/on (seemingly) whenever they feel like it!!!
Last I checked....ALL stations are REQUIRED to provide a LEGAL ID (CALL and COL at a MINIMUM) NO LESS THAN once per hour....
NO....it doesn't HAVE to be right at top or bottom-hour....but TH has always served as a (IMHO) good "reference point".....
 
WBZ probably should have reduced the vertical size of the picture and inserted the legal ID in the "black" area below the active picture. They could also lose the CBS Eye on their legal ID.
 
frankberry said:
WBZ probably should have reduced the vertical size of the picture and inserted the legal ID in the "black" area below the active picture. They could also lose the CBS Eye on their legal ID.
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What was the Eye obscuring? An NCAA logo? Another CBS Eye? I see the TBS logo in the upper left, but having the CBS logo also on the screen wouldn't distract or bother me at all. CBS produces the tournament. Having its Eye on the screen at some point is no different than seeing the NBC Peacock on the screen while watching a soccer game on one of its other networks.
 
First world problems.

Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with the picture. I can see if the ID was blocking the whole screen or even half of it but it is required by FCC rules. I can think of far worse ways to interrupt a game i.e. The Heidi Bowl or infomercials.
 
E-Cam said:
First world problems.

Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with the picture. I can see if the ID was blocking the whole screen or even half of it but it is required by FCC rules. I can think of far worse ways to interrupt a game i.e. The Heidi Bowl or infomercials.
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Or having a big moment become an afterthought because the announcers are too busy doing an advertiser drop-in or brown-nosing some celebrity or spokesman for ownership's pet charity or gushing over some just-back-from-Iraq Marine in the booth to announce the play properly.
 
ssetta said:
I can think of worse things than a station ID blocking the screen.
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like a continuous scroll of school closings even though its 2pm and they still are listing the schools that called it early in the morning
like a continuous scroll of weather warnings....when it something stupid like a winter storm watch or winter weather advisory
like a continuous "popup" at the bottom of the screen for something like "go to Kare11.com to watch Amy Klobuchar's announcement" (they did that crap for 90 minutes during the hockey game)
 
It wasn't just last Friday. It happens at the start of every new episode of The Big Bang Theory too, but MUCH WORSE. They show their BIG, obnoxious "CBS 4" logo, and it stays on screen for AT LEAST 10 seconds:

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To each their own, but for me THIS IS AN EYESORE! IT MAKES ME WANT TO JUMP OFF A BRIDGE!
 
kramie13 said:
It wasn't just last Friday. It happens at the start of every new episode of The Big Bang Theory too, but MUCH WORSE. They show their BIG, obnoxious "CBS 4" logo, and it stays on screen for AT LEAST 10 seconds:

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To each their own, but for me THIS IS AN EYESORE! IT MAKES ME WANT TO JUMP OFF A BRIDGE!
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DON'T JUMP!!!! We don't want to lose a poster, and besides, if you survive, you may have to watch Channel 4's coverage of your rescue with that BIG OBNOXIOUS LOGO ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, obscuring the reporter's shoes and a bit of the bridge from which you jumped.

OK, I think we all get your point. You seem to have an extreme sensitivity to station/network identifications superimposed on program material and there's nothing anyone here can do to convince you that it's not all that bad. There's a poster on other forums here who is extremely sensitive to loud music, especially anything with a strong beat or electric guitars. To me, that makes more sense than your peculiar trigger, but as you say, to each their (formerly "his") own.
 
kramie13 said:
It wasn't just last Friday. It happens at the start of every new episode of The Big Bang Theory too, but MUCH WORSE. They show their BIG, obnoxious "CBS 4" logo, and it stays on screen for AT LEAST 10 seconds:

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To each their own, but for me THIS IS AN EYESORE! IT MAKES ME WANT TO JUMP OFF A BRIDGE!
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As I wrote before. This is a legal ID ... required by the FCC. It must be at least ten seconds in length.
Get over it.
 
This was a change the networks made a long time ago. In the old days, they'd have a break at the top of the hour for some local spots and an ID. They realized that was an opportunity for tune-out, so they instead segue from one show to another, with a silent ID over the opening of the next show. If you're just noticing it now, then you haven't been paying attention. It's been this way for years.
 
CTListener said:
DON'T JUMP!!!! We don't want to lose a poster, and besides, if you survive, you may have to watch Channel 4's coverage of your rescue with that BIG OBNOXIOUS LOGO ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, obscuring the reporter's shoes and a bit of the bridge from which you jumped.
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Whoever is writing your material should get a bonus! That was the most amusing thing I've read in days, and it brought a great big smile to my face.

Thanks Again!
 
The poster may be hitting on something here, and what it is may be indicative of a greater issue. That is the cluttering of the screen. Crawl at the bottom, shot clock, score, statistics,and now logos. Won't be too long now where there won't be room for that game :)
 
K6JHU said:
The poster may be hitting on something here, and what it is may be indicative of a greater issue. That is the cluttering of the screen. Crawl at the bottom, shot clock, score, statistics,and now logos. Won't be too long now where there won't be room for that game :)
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The crawl is a PITA when you're watching a weekday baseball game and there are no other games in any sport being played at that time. Instead of running the crawl once an inning or turning it off entirely, the networks keep it running continuously, cycling the schedule of games that won't start for at least another three hours along with stale headlines from elsewhere in sports continuously. Having the score, clock, time-outs remaining, fouls, etc. on the screen doesn't bother me one bit, and where that stuff is displayed is almost never anywhere anything crucial to the game is taking place. It's good that CBS leaves some room at the bottom under its bar for a station like WBZ to squeeze in a legal ID, and bottom of the screen is far better than top, especially for basketball.

Just curious ... the financial networks, starting with the old FNN and going right up to the present-day Bloomberg, have filled the tops, bottoms and occasionally one side of their screens with market data for years. Have their viewers ever complained?
 
The obnoxious graphics to me are when the local news does a big lower third, "Comming up on the news at 5", with about 3 headlines that sweep across for about 15 seconds.
 
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