Another Reason to Kill Your Television: Logo Overload

It started with those little logos at the bottom right hand corner of the screen.  The logo of the network you were watching.

Then the logos evolved.

Some start moving.

Some started advertising the next hour's programming or next season's shows.

Some even moved and jumped and marketed other shows.

Networks suck.

You are their prisoner. You pay them for the right to watch their shows and then on your dime they shove advertising into the format with no respect for those who created the programming you are watching. Or you.

Forty years ago, we heard about subliminal advertising. Millions was spent on figuring out how to flash messages to viewers without their knowing it.

Then some genius figured out subliminal was unnecessary.

Bite me.

Comments

[Charlie]

Pretty soon the screen will be filled with a crawl showing school closings, a weather map showing where it might rain today, and an ad for the next episode of "Dancing with the Stars." The benefit is I'm watching less TV because I can't stand all this extraneous garbage.

[Steve Hanson]

One of the good effects of the writer's strike and the general decline of television is that I find myself watching less and less. I realized this when I was debating the other day what to do about the digital TV conversion, and then though that I really didn't care a whole lot since I can still get PBS on the satellite dish.

I'm not the only one - people are spending less time watching television in general. But I also find it REALLY annoying that on most channels now there's all this crap swimming around on the screen. Like they didn't get enough chance to irritate me during the regular commercial slots.

I find myself wanting to watch Network again.

[wondering]

Amen.

[froggyprager]

Amen - this is way out of hand. My kids usually watch only pbs kids shows but we watched a little football recently with the little ones and it was insane. I don't think that a young mind can handle looking at all those distracting things on the tv at the same time. too much

[John Hunter]

I agree. It is just like degrading any other service you offer. On the really good stuff - I will put up with that junk (say a Badger's basketball game). But for other stuff it just reminds me there is much better stuff to be doing that watching this dreck that even the networks don't respect enough to air properly. The idiots making their product worse and wondering why they keep losing audience really need to be replaced so some minor respite from that junk can remain. My guess is they will drive themselves out of relevance in maybe even just 5 years as they force people to find video content online that is presented with respect for the viewer.

[Donald W. Hamilton]

Why do the networks bielieve we need to see the logos?, some logos wade, I guess that is somewhat OK, but there are some that just takes away from watching the show, I stay away from watching networks that have large and brite logos, I bielieve a lot of people do, you would hope the networks would stop doing it.

Thank You

Don