Screen Real Estate
Summertime in Texas brings with it the threat of severe thunderstorms. Something you get used to after 37 years. I just wish someone could tell me why its neccessary to take up 98.4% of my television screen when there are weather warnings? Scroll across the bottom when there is a warning, that's ok. No, that's not good enough, now we have to scroll across the bottom in English AND Spanish. Wouldn't want to offend anyone. Some local station executive had the bright idea of not only scrolling the warning, he decides it would be a nifty idea to superimpose a little map of the counties in the top left portion of the screen with the affected counties highlighted. Add the semitransparent Station logo in the bottom right corner and you literally have a third of your screen covered in weather warnings. Not annoying enough? Just wait until an important part of your television show, they wait for the perfect moment, and the local weather guru will pop up showing you the radar that's been in the upper left portion of your screen for the last hour telling you the same thing that has been scrolling across the bottom of your TV. What's funny is they deem it necessary to interrupt the show and warn you, for your well being, but have you ever seen a weather man interrupt a commercial? I'm just glad our best interests are in good hands at the networks.
Summertime in Texas brings with it the threat of severe thunderstorms. Something you get used to after 37 years. I just wish someone could tell me why its neccessary to take up 98.4% of my television screen when there are weather warnings? Scroll across the bottom when there is a warning, that's ok. No, that's not good enough, now we have to scroll across the bottom in English AND Spanish. Wouldn't want to offend anyone. Some local station executive had the bright idea of not only scrolling the warning, he decides it would be a nifty idea to superimpose a little map of the counties in the top left portion of the screen with the affected counties highlighted. Add the semitransparent Station logo in the bottom right corner and you literally have a third of your screen covered in weather warnings. Not annoying enough? Just wait until an important part of your television show, they wait for the perfect moment, and the local weather guru will pop up showing you the radar that's been in the upper left portion of your screen for the last hour telling you the same thing that has been scrolling across the bottom of your TV. What's funny is they deem it necessary to interrupt the show and warn you, for your well being, but have you ever seen a weather man interrupt a commercial? I'm just glad our best interests are in good hands at the networks.
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