US: TV's on screen graphics are going too far!

**Rover_Wow** · 05-29-2005, 10:10 PM

The ratings logo, to be more precise. These framegrabs are from Nick US.

That was then.

THIS IS NOW! It's, quite frankly, too big. Steve Mindykowski says "Things like this have ruined my ability to watch TV." Anyone care to complain?

(BTW, these huge honkin' ratings logos only apply to the start of the program, I'm told. The logos used after the ad breaks retain the old size.)

**Rook** · 05-29-2005, 10:26 PM

dude thats nothing compared to the actually channel banners and the spontaneously spawning advertisements mid-show.

**SirLemming** · 05-29-2005, 10:31 PM

If it just pops up for a few seconds at the beginning, who cares?

**Michael24** · 05-29-2005, 10:49 PM

^ Agreed.

I'm more annoyed by the fully-animated (and sometimes full of sound effects) promos that play just after each commercial break, and sometimes just before, also, on some channels. SpikeTV and FX are the worst offenders.

**Mario500** · 05-29-2005, 11:29 PM

(Gasp!)

Another reason to purchase old and new TV programs on DVD, since it seems that the broadcast and cable/satellite networks have abandoned about the frequent VCR users out there. Looks like it's back to taping shows without the opening credits again, yet there are shows (new and old) without a long opening or none at all.

**Sigma** · 05-30-2005, 12:25 AM

Yeah the rating isn't a big deal since it only appears on screen for a few seconds at the start of a show. I do hate the little logos and ads that appear on the bottom of the screen throughout shows though. G4 is getting especially bad with this. I can't even watch an episode of Icons without a huge ad for that retard Whip Set show screeching onto the screen.

**Rover_Wow** · 05-30-2005, 12:52 AM

Someone has to form some sort of "good taste" board at the FCC. If swearing can be regulated on TV, why not bugs and split-screen credits?
Slightly off topic, but there used to be a time where "The Greatest American Hero" could take almost two minutes for its opening titles... http://www.80stvthemes.com/ra/51999/GAHVID.ra
... and the soap "Another World" could spend more than 2 1/2 minutes on their closing credits!
http://www.wost.org/aw84cv.ram

These days, the networks are using shorter titles, split-screens and the like to maximize advertising time, but at what cost? Well, our full enjoyment of the programmes. Please.

**Chad Bonin** · 05-30-2005, 12:55 AM

Given that the larger ratings are to offset the FCC potentially censoring cable, I'm up for it.

**Michael24** · 05-30-2005, 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by Rover_Wow

Slightly off topic, but there used to be a time where "The Greatest American Hero" could take almost two minutes for its opening titles... http://www.80stvthemes.com/ra/51999/GAHVID.ra
... and the soap "Another World" could spend more than 2 1/2 minutes on their closing credits!
http://www.wost.org/aw84cv.ram

I love those nice long opening titles. Remember QUANTUM LEAP? STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION? Hell, even WINGS originally had a big elaborate opening, and that was a sitcom.

**Enrique** · 05-30-2005, 02:45 AM

the size of the rating symbol must be determined on a station by station or network by network basis... cuz here in los angeles, they're all still the same small size as always.

**One Radical Dude** · 05-30-2005, 03:42 AM

It doesn't really effect me at all. So, it's larger. Big deal. It's only for about 10 seconds.

**Gokou Ruri** · 05-30-2005, 04:27 AM

Originally Posted by Enrique

the size of the rating symbol must be determined on a station by station or network by network basis... cuz here in los angeles, they're all still the same small size as always.

Same here, I've never seen a rating block that big before, even on the suggusted Spongebob Squarepants.

**Rover_Wow** · 05-30-2005, 07:55 AM

Sooooo... anyone care to join Stop The Logos? I haven't seen much activity there ever since I started visiting...

**oz615** · 05-30-2005, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by Sigma

Yeah the rating isn't a big deal since it only appears on screen for a few seconds at the start of a show?

but lately some of the net are the ratings bug right after each break,i notice this while i was watching the Dukes of Hazzard last week on CMT

Someone has to form some sort of "good taste" board at the FCC. If swearing can be regulated on TV, why not bugs and split-screen credits?
Slightly off topic, but there used to be a time where "The Greatest American Hero" could take almost two minutes for its opening titles... http://www.80stvthemes.com/ra/51999/GAHVID.ra
... and the soap "Another World" could spend more than 2 1/2 minutes on their closing credits!
http://www.wost.org/aw84cv.ram

These days, the networks are using shorter titles, split-screens and the like to maximize advertising time, but at what cost? Well, our full enjoyment of the programmes. Please.

biggest offender of this is GSN cause of the fact that they have the credits so small to the point i cant see anything

**Chad Bonin** · 05-30-2005, 03:57 PM

I'd be all up for the ratings before the show a la Fox Kids back in the day.

"Power Rangers Turbo is rated TV-Y7 for high-flying fantasy and turbo charged action."

**Natey** · 05-30-2005, 06:52 PM

i noticed maybe because parents didnt notice it when it was smalla? who cares though.

**NozeNuggets** · 05-30-2005, 08:23 PM

I guess all the Viacom basic cable webs are doing it. I saw a TV14 whilst flipping on the cable, and lemme tell you, it was freakin' ginormous!

**The Weed Of Cri** · 06-01-2005, 08:27 PM

The logos and graphics are less annoying to me than:

Seeing the credits squished into 1/3 of the screen while the network runs promos at the same time.

Shows running later than their scheduled time (Lost was a particularly annoying perpetrator last season)

Networks running the same commercial for the same show in every commercial break of another show (whatever miniscule interest I might have had in Kevin Hill or America's Top Model were smothered by watching the relevant points of every episode five times while watching Enterprise)

Changing a show's time slot without telling anybody (not even TV Guide). There were two or three show I might have like last season...but I could never find them! So after a few tries, I just gave up.

**Fan of Sponge** · 06-01-2005, 08:36 PM

I bet this all stems from people not listen or looking at the ratings system and at the same time complaining about it. I just can't wait for the day when South Park gets a TV-Y rating for the episode It Hits the Fan after the FCC goofs up.

Maybe if were lucky, the rating system will block the entire program for the entire duration of the show or movie were watching in the next eight years.