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- From: ewing@ibmb8.cs.uiuc.edu (Brandy "Bang" Ewing)
- Subject: Those Damned Station ID Things
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.212538.3644@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Summary: I hate them!!!!
- Keywords: ARGH
- Sender: news@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:25:38 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- *peeve on*
-
- You know what I HATE? Those stupid station identification graphics
- that they flash on the screen every once in a while. I have gotten used
- to the VH-1 thing they have as well as MTV and USA...theirs are all nicely
- put in the corner.
-
- But, our local NBC station has just gone too far. Now, of course they have
- the regular old nbc symbol with the station's call letters. And, every now
- and then they will flash it up there for about 5 or 10 seconds. I can stand
- that. But, now instead of just having their logo in the center of the bottom
- of the screen...our nbc affiliate has decided that's not enough. Noooo....
-
- Now we have the logo at bottom center....the time at to left...and the temp
- at top right. And of course, these aren't off in the corner like the Tornado
- watch symbols.. The are far enough out that they distract from the show. It
- is hard not to notice them. In my opinion, if I'm watching TV I don't really
- care that much about the time (I have a watch) and I sure as hell don't care
- about the temperature outside. Especially in the middle of a show...and I
- can read it...they don't have to leave it up for more than 10 seconds.
-
- AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
-
- This was especially bad last night. We were watching the Olympics...and the
- people were swimming... The stupid logo came up...and a swimmer we were
- rooting for was up in lane 8...and we couldn't see how they were doing due
- to the fact that the time was up there in the corner. It was very annoying.
-
- *peeve off*
-
- Brandy
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- Brandy J. Ewing bje27088@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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