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Pop-up promo ads

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BlueWanderer

I remember it was around summertime of '02 or '03 that TNT or some other Turner network channel starting testing their new annoying promo ad system that nearly every channel using today. Since then I notice the promo ads becoming way to hard to ignore so I've switch to watching mostly home video now.

The point of this topic is how bad do you think they are now compare to a few years ago?
 
You think that is bad, just wait for this... Pop-up commercials. Just like the promo ads, but they are adverts.

For example:

You are watching ER on TNT. First off, you see a pop-up ad for "The Closer" on TNT. That goes away, 15 seconds later, you get a pop up for, oh, let's say, Viagra for 15 seconds at the bottom of the screen while ER is still going on.



When this starts to happen, I think I will stop watching TV.
 
I'm surprise that next step in tv pop-up ad annoyance hasn't happen yet. Just taping or covering up the bottom part of the screen isn't enough anymore. I remember watching VH1 some months ago, and the big black Rock Honors Awards, or whatever it was called, ad popped in the middle of the screen. Not just the corner of the screen, but in the middle!

I end up changing the channel right after that nonsense.
 
I posted about this on another thread ' I Can't Believe what I just saw on TBS'

I was watching Everybody Loves Raymond on TBS, and suddnely right in the middle of the show, a pause button came up on the screen and Bill Engvall did a promo for his new TBS show.

Then he was like "Now, let's get back to the show" and pointed at the screen and it resumed.
 
AMC is doing some work on its image, including.....you guessed it, pop ups to promo some of the "new programming" it is about to begin. AMC is going the way of every other network and piling garbage atop a readily acceptable program lineup--and now usin g pop-ups to tell everyone how they are going to screw up a perfectly do-able schedule.

Television is rapidly becoming an even bigger dung heap and getting worse about "let's also try that."
 
MarkL said:
I posted about this on another thread ' I Can't Believe what I just saw on TBS'

I was watching Everybody Loves Raymond on TBS, and suddnely right in the middle of the show, a pause button came up on the screen and Bill Engvall did a promo for his new TBS show.

Then he was like "Now, let's get back to the show" and pointed at the screen and it resumed.
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Worry.....there is more of that to come, trust me!
 
nuzguy said:
AMC is doing some work on its image, including.....you guessed it, pop ups to promo some of the "new programming" it is about to begin. AMC is going the way of every other network and piling garbage atop a readily acceptable program lineup--and now usin g pop-ups to tell everyone how they are going to screw up a perfectly do-able schedule.

Television is rapidly becoming an even bigger dung heap and getting worse about "let's also try that."
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I remember when AMC use to be commercial free. The only REAL good movie channel out there is TCM, and the only thing they air is a small TCM bug at the bottom of the screen every once in awhile.
 
You know that's how it used to be on almost every channel, a little network bug pop up for a few seconds after a break and then it was gone. I miss those days. :(

I find it ironic that TCM is one of the last channels still practicing that policy today. Meanwhile, their sister station TNT was the one that paved the way for pop-up ad annoyance few years ago.
 
Maybe we'll go back to the radio days when they incorporated the commericals into the stories like on the "Burns and Allen" radio show, with Bill Goodwin as the announcer.

Gracie) Come on in Bill, I have a problem
Bill) Me too, you have any Maxwell House Coffee
Gracie) I always keep Maxwell House on hand
Bill) I knew you would why Maxwell House is made from only the finest beans... goes off into commerical
Gracie) Well it is good coffee Bill but I'm afraid this isn't solving our problems.
Bill) Solved my problem I wanted a cup of Maxwell House.


Or

Bill) You know George with Maxwell House
George) Look Bill I don't have time for you right now
Bill) But George Maxwell House..
George) Run along Bill
Bill) Why you'll never run a long bill with Maxwell House Coffee it costs only fractions of a cent more than the other leading brands and it's well worth it.
George) Aw he made a commerical, you must be proud.
 
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