(ignore the old TV)
an ESPN+ exclusive fight has literally nothing to do with the football
That’s good. It should serve as a reminder that you need to abandon a dinosaur push media. It’s a subtle way to punish normies who haven’t caught on yet.
I can’t ignore the old TV.
I’m honestly impressed there are still functional, floor-model rear-projection TVs.
I clean out houses for a living, you’d be very shocked how many functional rear projection and CRTs are in use and get thrown out “because old”.
Heart wrenching and entirely understandable. Those things are both magnificent and inconvenient these days
And the picture quality is terrible by modern standards. Give me OLED any day.
It is terrible for modern media, but for legacy media give me analog signal any day
Agreed, though I’ll take a Trinitron over an RPTV any day
It’s too heavy to ever get replaced. It’ll still be there after the house is long gone.
This was already common practice to promote other shows during broadcasts way back when I last watched broadcast TV over a decade and a half ago.
I hate the mid-game ads that take up 2/3 of the screen
I’ve completely given up on watching broadcast TV. Recently they made a change in Germany, where you have to pay extra for cable TV. Which I won’t do so now I don’t have cable any more. I haven’t even noticed the difference.
That’s actually called a “bug”—not the software error kind, though. In sports broadcasts, we get the classic “score bug,” always been there, usually small and tucked in a corner to keep things low-key. But what you’re seeing here, this whole bottom-of-the-screen takeover, is way more like those old-school news channel bugs from back in the ‘90s or early 2000s. You know, the ones that would stretch across the screen with stock prices, news updates, whatever they wanted to throw at you, right underneath the main action. It’s more intrusive for sure, but not anything wild—it’s actually been around for decades.
I thought the strip across the bottom was called a chyron? Not heard it referred to as a bug before (not saying you’re wrong though).
Maybe in news it is. 🤷♂️ My knowledge comes from working with a 3rd party for ESPN. I know ESPN refers to this as the bug. There are “bug operators”, and boy howdy does the producer yell at them when they’re not on their toes.
Ha, I bet :-)
Honestly I would take the little banner if it meant there was not comerical breaks. The fact that they do this on top of all the ads they also play at breaks is so over the top. I have been getting into European football and I find it so refreshing that they play 45 mins half straight through. It’s way faster games and there is not the disruption of comericals. In those games they have the banner, but I don’t mind it as much
I am not going to ignore the old TV. That’s rad as hell and I am jealous.
That rear projection beast was the best darn television for tests until Pioneer made plasmas. I miss ours deeply and wish we’d had the space to keep it (especially for retro gaming and the yearly playing of the Star Wars laser disk).
What kind of tests?
My bad. Must have made a slip up on the swipe keyboard. I meant “years”. I’ve edited my post to correct.
You can’t hide your secret tests from us.
I hate to be the guy to tell you, man. But, they’ve been doing this shit for like, 30 years man.
We have very different ideas of what a banner ad is
Your TV is awesome, and I’d would absolutely love to play some Metal Gear Solid on that bastard.
ok boomer
Damn that TV must have very good sounds compared to nowadays TV
That’s fucking irritating.
I love your tv tho and cant ignore it. My dad had one of these beasts when I was young it had to be over 300 pounds easy. Thing never moved once it was there.
Isn’t the whole point of sports to be able to advertise?
Is it? I thought it was to get more points than the other team. I’ve been playing wrong this whole time?
Definitely playing wrong. It’s about money, Gatorade, and getting enough CTE to justify killing your wife. /s
I thought sports was about wealthy, unscrupulous white men fighting each other over the right to have the most-talented black men go to work in their fields.
In golf, you want to score less.
This take is why you keep losing at golf
Nah, that is to keep potential clients interested.
They keep adding rules to the sport to make it more “TV viewing friendly”, meaning more breaks to show ads. I mean, the superbowl is just ads with sport attached.
Look at the sports with systemic ad presence vs sports where it’s all “grass roots.” (The grass roots ones are mostly gone.)
Most top sports are incredibly expensive to keep running and the ones that become infested with ads are the ones that stick around for us to enjoy. If you follow less popular sports you’ll consider yourself lucky to bring in ads and sponsors.
