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TNT pulls an NBC...

CNN used to have their logo on the bottom of the screen to the left.
 
Yawn. A network showing its bug on the screen, as if the viewer didn't know what channel he/she was watching in the first place. An intelligence-insulting practice, no matter where the "bug" is positioned. Nothing to see here. Move along...
 
The trouble is that I can settle for the bug. When they start taking a quarter to a third of the screen for program promotion (SyFy is particularly bad at this) is when I sstart to get p***ed. I may start waiting for the DVD or stream the program instead.
 
^Those program promotions are another form of watermarking. Someone doesn't want viewers and listeners recording the programs and wants them to purchase video recordings of the programs instead. This logic should not apply to programs not available at retailers such as most game shows of the past (the folks at the Game Show Network should learn to leave promotions out of their shows, especially older game shows).
 
K6JHU said:
The trouble is that I can settle for the bug. When they start taking a quarter to a third of the screen for program promotion (SyFy is particularly bad at this) is when I sstart to get p***ed. I may start waiting for the DVD or stream the program instead.
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I wish the networks would not do this on first-run episodes of a program, especially those that have subtitles for whatever reason within the show.

It was nearly a decade ago that TBS and TNT started the trend for program promotion, pop-up ads, ad bugs, or whatever you want to call them. I don't see this practice going away anytime soon or ever for that matter.
 
I remember when My Network TV kinda did something like NBC. It never had a network logo shown during it's shows, but early on during the soaps (back in 2007), there was a show logo on the lower left corner of the TV screen...
 
DToTheJ said:
Yawn. A network showing its bug on the screen, as if the viewer didn't know what channel he/she was watching in the first place. An intelligence-insulting practice, no matter where the "bug" is positioned. Nothing to see here. Move along...
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In a motel room where I don't have a channel list, I need this. It is not useless if I'm turning through a bunch of channels.

In fact, even the basic basic package I have at home took some getting used to because I had to remember 36 is 6, 42 is 4, 58 is 5, 55 is 12 and 46 is 8.
 
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