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Article #621859Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
From: Kerr-MuddJohn
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:19
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:19
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:59:56 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-04-18, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> On 2018-04-18, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote: >> >>> Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> writes: > > [22 lines snipped] > >>>> Actually, most (ALL?) stations are running constant >>>> ads on the bottom of the screen. >>>> >>>> I'm amazed that some of the side bar ads are animated. >>>> >>>> Advertisers know no boundaries. >>> >>> Just recently I saw my first picture-in-picture advert >>> _during_ the program. Blech. >> >> I think if they started doing that here I'd take John Prine's >> advice and blow up my TV. As it is, the animated things at >> the bottom of the screen are running longer and longer into >> the program after each break. > > Fortunately, all that nonsense is forbidden in the YooKay. > > I vaguely remember some "coming next" bit on top of the end of a program (on ch4?); maybe it was the hoohah about that that caused a change in the rules. A lot of the commercial channels squeeze the credits and jump in at the end to tell you about something exciting coming up. -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
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