It looks like since their fall season started on Sept. 9 with "SYTYCD" and "Glee," Fox has stopped running a continuous logo bug in the lower right-hand corner of the screen during its prime time programs, making them the first network to stop the practice since the Big 4 and Little 2 started emulating cable (and other channels around the world) sometime in the late 90s. "Glee" and other HD programs have a very brief logo bug at the beginning of each segment incorporating the HD letters and snipes (like the "Glee" thumbs-up hand) still come up in the lower left-hand corner of the screen (including the new-to-me "Coming Up Next: Your Local News"--can't Fox get the device that allows the affiliates to punch in their own headline snipes like on CBS and NBC?).
Of course, I'm not stupid enough to believe that Fox did this out of the goodness of their own hearts--I strongly suspect that the affiliates want to run their own logo bugs instead, like on MyTV and PBS. It especially showed Friday night on a "Glee" repeat on the SD feed--there were lots of transmission problems, with the first few seconds of each act and the beginning of some commercial breaks only in audio until the picture pixiliated on the screen--and the picture of the HD show went back-and-forth in each act between the "center cut" 4:3 framing used by reality shows and similar programs (and I suspect every show on CBS) and the letterbox 16:9 framing that's become standard for scripted dramas. But what was interesting was that every time "Glee" was in letterbox on SD, WFLD in Chicago inserted its "FOX CHICAGO" logo bug (they've either de-emphasized or not mentioned the channel 32 over-air frequency in branding for almost 20 years now--most cable systems have them on channel 12). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
