{"id":71,"date":"2007-11-05T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajiniravi.com\/ravi\/wp\/?p=71"},"modified":"2007-11-05T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T14:31:00","slug":"watching-cricket-between-the-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/watching-cricket-between-the-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Cricket between the ads!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket watching on TV in India is a big annoyance now-a-days. With commercial interests reigning supreme on the Cricket Board as well as the Broadcasters mind, its no more cricket watching with ads in between the overs; its advertising watching with cricket in between! Live!!<\/p>\n<p>Every possible inch of the screen is being used to generate revenues or tell us something.<\/p>\n<p>Sample the number of thing on screen nowadays (atleast in the recent T20 and India-Australia series).<br \/>a. The big and ugly channel logo.<br \/>b. The BCCI logo.<br \/>c. The horizontal advertising banner.<br \/>d. The advertising banner during slow motion<br \/>e. Don&#8217;t know what they call it &#8211; But the ugly banner on 2 sides of the screen. 3 sides sometimes.<br \/>f. The sponsors logo on the various scorecards \/ statistics banners. Sometime its just the sponsors Ad\/message and no statistics.<\/p>\n<p>If you are watching the match on TataSky then there is more&#8230;<br \/>g. VC# right in the center of the screen.<br \/>h. Scroller urging you to dial in and report piracy to &#8216;TataSky&#8217; or Scroller advertising a new sports package.<br \/>i. &#8216;Active Sports&#8217; logo urging you to click a button and go to the Active sports section<br \/>j. Yellow envelope icon on top telling you there is a message for you (mostly advertising a special package or movie).<\/p>\n<p>and God forbid if it happens&#8230;<br \/>k. The &#8216;Search and Scan&#8217; banner flashing incessantly. It happened in the T20 semis (probably due to some &#8216;active&#8217; button programming error at TataSky&#8217;s end. The damn thing kept flashing every second, over and above the ads and annoyed me to no extent!<br \/>l. TataSky logo &#8211; a partnership with the channel.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that&#8217;s more than 10 things on my screen!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_nPrdJ8CAbhc\/RzE5_wvqR3I\/AAAAAAAAAEA\/RkS_EUdcSb0\/s1600-h\/Untitled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_nPrdJ8CAbhc\/RzE5_wvqR3I\/AAAAAAAAAEA\/RkS_EUdcSb0\/s320\/Untitled.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129945218131052402\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">The image is composed with all elements I have noticed on screen, but you get the idea.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I am not going to pay to watch that??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket watching on TV in India is a big annoyance now-a-days. With commercial interests reigning supreme on the Cricket Board as well as the Broadcasters mind, its no more cricket watching with ads in between the overs; its advertising watching with cricket in between! Live!! 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