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From: "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news>
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Subject: Re: Ratings Humiliation for Doctor Whoke
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The Doctor wrote:

> In article <xn0p5a8na14s0do000@post.eweka.nl>,
> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
> > 
> > I do remember the moaning here and on other NG's about DOG's
> > on tv screens, usually channel identity logos. That and
> > shrinking credits were an issue for some people on quite a
> > few groups that covered television shows many years ago.
> > As I had come back from New York where anything goes in
> > regards to water-marks, logos, show previews and advert
> > strips on parts of television screens. (Even adverts during
> > live sports games!) I never saw it as a big issue... a bit
> > annoying but easily ignored. However, it was a new-ish thing
> > for British television at the time.
> 
> some things do not change.

Irish and British TV is still quite tame compared to all the 
shit that the US shows have plastered across their screens during
programmes over there. - Especially live sports.