Sci Fi - gimme a break!

For the last couple of days, Sci Fi has been promoting this thing
called "The Lost Room" on the lower right hand of the screen - and
it's not gonna be on until Monday!

telenovels...

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Uh. When should they start promoting it? On Monday?

That would be too late.

RobertVA...

I think he's objecting to advertising superimposed over other programs.

miket6065...

I got to be honest and say I agree with him. This advertising during a

telenovels...

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Doesn't bother me. The ad lies in the bottom third where the black bar
lies, and all the action is in the Top third, so I simply pretend it's
not there. I mentally-erase it from my mind. Can't you do the same?

If you really felt strongly about it, you could cancel your cable &
deprive Sci-Fi, TNT, and the rest of their ~50 cent per subscriber fee.
Buy the DVDs instead which have no bugs.

Ken Maltby...

I can't believe anyone is really defending the, seeming ever
expanding, use of those annoying "bugs". They appear to be
growing more and more intrusive every day. They are certainly
covering a lot more than any "black bar" that normally is used.
They are now highly animated and use audio tracks designed
to attract (really distract) your attention.

L Alpert...

As long as we watch commercial TV, we will always get commercial
programming. It is annoying, but it is also a fact of life, just like GWB.

Pete B...

As was pointed out to one of your split personalities before, it doesn't
have to be that expensive. A group of people in tv are being paid way to
much, if they got decent saleries instead, progammes could be made much
more cheaply.

And its not free btw, the companies need to get the money too, and they
add it to the cost of their products.

The only other option I can think of is PBS, but they don't offer much in
the way of SF.

They aren't selling that as ad space, unless you could say
they can sell the normal space they would have used to hype
their upcoming shows. But they still are running plenty of
those. I personally think they know any advertiser who had
a boycottable product would notice a very negative impact if
their product were advertised that way. They only use it to
promote their other shows.

Luck;
Ken

program is getting old. Fifteen minutes an hour doesn't seem enough for
these TV execs, now it seems that they want the rest of the 45 minutes to
sell ad time.

To quote Gorilla Monsoon and the 80s TV show of the same name,
"Gimme a Break!"

Garondo Marondo...

TNT started this annoying practice to promote The Closer, I'm sure its
going to spread like wildfire now.

fred_h_haddad...

Sci-Fi's been doing it for years.

Barry Margolin...

Yeah, I think they were promoting "Taken" this way for weeks, maybe
months.

jewahe...

G4 has been using this method for awhile - and theirs takes up a full
quarter of the screen, complete with sounds and animation. It's really
quite annoying.

David...

I think MTV was the first to do it when they aired "Spiderman" in the
early '00s. It aired on Friday night so every Friday all day long
there was an annoying, animated Spiderman logo on screen.

shawn...

I'm not sure who was first but it seems that most of the cable
channels do it. I see it happening all the time with Food Network.

fred_h_haddad...

Yeah it's already standard practice. The "wildfire" already "spread"

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Garondo Marondo!

Ravenlynne...

You really just wanted to use that quote today, didn't you?

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