Re: Altering Live TV Pictures

["Douglas J. Broda" <djbroda@mindspring.com>]

At 02:43 PM 1/15/00 -0800, Bob Nelson wrote:

>--a sketch on the CBC's "Royal Canadian Air Farce"
>had Roger Abbott as Wilford Brimley, doing his "it's
>the right thing to do" shtick, and "Brimley" got
>mad at the CBC symbol in the lower right hand corner
>of the screen. He started to rail against such things,
>as the screen soon filled with more CBC logos plus
>other logos (CTV, NBC, CNN, CBS, TSN--The Sports
>Network, etc.). Soon the image was all logos.
>

What I wouldn't give to have the Air Farce on Trio. Do US rights belong to
somebody else like PBS? Or maybe they think that they should only run stuff
without Canadian character? (IMO, having that *and* Newsworld International
carry a more Canadian flavor would create more viewers than the incredibly
few those services have now... it'd at a minimum be something "snowbirds"
and Canadian ex-pats would watch.

>I'm sure there are moments when a network or one of
>its affiliates runs, say, a sports highlight that
>features the competing network's logo in it. So not
>only would Ch. 4 (CBS) be running a football highlight
>with "Courtesy Fox TV" splashed on the screen, but
>they'd also be showing the Fox logo during the
>highlight...
>

Many. ESPN's SportsCenter runs into that all the time, and they don't try
to block the thing even though they're co-owned with ABC by Mickey.

Douglas J. Broda
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