WFTS use of Severe Thunder Storm Warning

[bdraw]

Trying to enjoy my favorite show this week on ABC and had to deal with 1/4 of the screen covered by a very annoying Severe Thunders Storm warning. What made matter worse is they knew it was annoying so they removed the warning during the commercials, so they wouldn't bother their advertisers!

I emailed generalmanager@abcactionnews.com who knows if Bill Carey actually gets that email, but I had to do something.

Next time i will just download it off a.b.hdtv instead from an affiliate who actually cares about it viewers, more than promoting their weather service. I suppose it could be worse they could steal bandwidth away from their HD feed for a dedicated 24/7 weather feed that no one watches.

[Bschneider]

Believe it or not, he does get the email.

[Floyd]

The broadcasters have been criticised in the past when they didn't issue a weather warning and a tornado pops up. I think they are moving towards excessive warnings to cover their asses; same thing for the NWS. I don't have a weather-alert radio, but I imagine they would wake you up about half of the nights during the rainy season here.

In a similar vein, many of the cable channels like FX have enlarged their logo-bug to steroidal proportions, and are zooming in animated promotions on the lower 25% of the screen during the middle of the program, some of which have atrocious noises associated that interfere with and distract from the normal program audio. I expect them to eventually take over the lower part of the screen with ads, like a website. They need to be reminded that we are paying for those channels.

[CactusJack]

Yes, these things are move annoying. I agree with what Floyd said, but they really are going overboard with it. I would think displaying the notice for maybe 2 minutes every 15 minutes would be plenty.

And that crap with the logos and promotions is getting ridiculous!! On documentary-type shows, the logos often cover text that is relevant to the show, which is annoying. Is there an "I hate logo bugs" web site?

[Floyd]

Is there an "I hate logo bugs" web site?

Here's one called "Kill the Bug". I only find one page. Maybe there's more to it?
http://www.illumina.net/default.htm