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Local Station Bugs on Fox Network Programming

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Bluenoser

I was watching Cops on WFXT Boston (which I receive on Bell TV satellite, as well as KCPQ Seattle) on the weekend and noticed that after Fox faded out their promo bugs, WFXT put their own bug where the Fox bug would normally be in the lower right and kept it on until the commercial break. Are other Fox stations doing this during network programming, or is this just being done on the O&Os?
 
Bluenoser said:
I was watching Cops on WFXT Boston (which I receive on Bell TV satellite, as well as KCPQ Seattle) on the weekend and noticed that after Fox faded out their promo bugs, WFXT put their own bug where the Fox bug would normally be in the lower right and kept it on until the commercial break. Are other Fox stations doing this during network programming, or is this just being done on the O&Os?
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KSAZ has it...I think even when Cox center-cut their HD signal for cable that the bug was outside the SD area.
 
That's actually a feature of the Fox splicer. The network controls that logo.

- Trip
 
With WTIC-DT, the "FOX-CT HD" bug will remain in the lower right corner, whether I'm watching WTIC-DT over the air on 31-1 (a.k.a. 61) or on channel 45-1, via my TV's digital QAM tuner (Comcast in New Britain, CT with no converter).
 
The local FOX places their logo in the right bottom corner for HD. And the HD feed is what is also shown on regular cable. Is this happening everywhere where the FOX HD feed is on the regular cable channel. So on the old tube tvs you see the black bars for example.
 
MarcB said:
During Animation Domination FOX-CT has their FOX CT HD logo on the screen. No sign of the regular FOX logo.
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Same with WNYW/New York, at least during "Family Guy" in prime time.
 
Here in the Quad Cities, a miniturized version of KLJB's logo appears on the lower right corner of the screen. I think Fox did away with the network logo--with the exception of Fox News Sunday. Now it's more like My Network TV in that sense. Personally, I kinda wish the other networks would follow suit....
 
FOX 11 in Los Angeles does this. I know because I have an old CRT and the picture width varies with the brightness of the picture. Sometimes I can see the 11, sometimes it's cropped. :)
 
Ken said:
The local FOX places their logo in the right bottom corner for HD. And the HD feed is what is also shown on regular cable. Is this happening everywhere where the FOX HD feed is on the regular cable channel. So on the old tube tvs you see the black bars for example.
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Because Fox Sports now crops its graphics to a 16:9 area (no SD safe area here), yes. Cox was a couple months late but they too switched over.
 
Yeah, they are doing everywhere because I saw the "FOX 6" insignia on air during programming in Birmingham. As well as the "FOX 5" one in Atlanta as well. It's interesting to see the station logo on air instead of a network.
 
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