DOGs on the cricket

Dear Sky

What on Earth is that flipping enrmous great sun thing doing defacing
the screen. It is making the coverage of the cricket from India almost
unwatchable. It is enormous and highly offensive, not to mention
unnecessary, especially as the coverage is in 4:3 aspect ratio.

I do hope this isnt part of the deal from nimbus, because it needs to
go. Or if it cant be remved, at least reduced in size. The infobar
seems to be getting bigger and bigger too - the one from the under 19
games was tking up almost 1/3 of the screen.

Please realise that some people want to see the cricket, not logos and
other on screen grafitti

Kind regards

"Ed" wrote in message
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Dear Sky

What on Earth is that flipping enrmous great sun thing doing defacing
the screen. It is making the coverage of the cricket from India almost
unwatchable. It is enormous and highly offensive, not to mention
unnecessary, especially as the coverage is in 4:3 aspect ratio.

I do hope this isnt part of the deal from nimbus, because it needs to
go. Or if it cant be remved, at least reduced in size. The infobar
seems to be getting bigger and bigger too - the one from the under 19
games was tking up almost 1/3 of the screen.

Please realise that some people want to see the cricket, not logos and
other on screen grafitti

"Dear Ed, Apologies from us at Sky but we need to make our cash and stuff
what the subscriber thinks, It's OUR monopoly...If you don't like it, We
DARE you to cancel your subscription"

( A letter from Sky if they had the actual manners to reply would be worded
differently but would amount to much the same)

Ed asked:
Dear Sky

What on Earth is that flipping enrmous great sun thing doing defacing
the screen. It is making the coverage of the cricket from India almost
unwatchable. It is enormous and highly offensive, not to mention
unnecessary, especially as the coverage is in 4:3 aspect ratio.

I do hope this isnt part of the deal from nimbus, because it needs to
go. Or if it cant be remved, at least reduced in size. The infobar
seems to be getting bigger and bigger too - the one from the under 19
games was tking up almost 1/3 of the screen.

Please realise that some people want to see the cricket, not logos and
other on screen grafitti

It's the logo of the BCCI.

Nothing to do with Sky.

A letter from Sky if they had the actual manners to reply would be worded differently but would amount to much the same

I actually got a nice reply from a senior producer of the cricket at
sky saying he was sorry but it was a contractual obligation on all
cricket coming out of india for the forseeable future. He also told me
that the local feed has the local station logo on the other corner
which is just as big.

As someone who doesn't subscribe to the cricket on Sky, for the simple reason that I find it deeply boring, does anyone have a link to an example of what's being discussed here?

If you watch sky news or sky sports news they'll show some brief
highlights and you'll see the offending DOG. As Billy Liar points out
this is the BCCI's logo, but there is no need for it to be broadcast in
the UK

Ed wrote:
As someone who doesn't subscribe to the cricket on Sky, for the simple reason that I find it deeply boring, does anyone have a link to an example of what's being discussed here?

If you watch sky news or sky sports news they'll show some brief
highlights and you'll see the offending DOG. As Billy Liar points out
this is the BCCI's logo, but there is no need for it to be broadcast in
the UK

Well it clearly just means they're taking someone else's feed instead
of their own cameras. They're a business and as much as I hate logos,
if that was the only benefit of a massive expense then they're not
going to do it.

Dom

Billy Liar wrote:

Please realise that some people want to see the cricket, not logos and
other on screen grafitti

It's the logo of the BCCI.

BCCI as in "collapsed money-laundering bank run by dubious Muslims"?

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Ed wrote:

but there is no need for it to be broadcast in the UK

Actually, there is! As Sky are under contractual obligation to display
the logo as they are supplying the feed.

Raziel

In uk.media.tv.misc Razieluk wrote:
Actually, there is! As Sky are under contractual obligation to display
the logo as they are supplying the feed.

As good a condemnation of Sky as I've heard this year.

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Ed wrote:
but there is no need for it to be broadcast in the UK


Razieluk said
Actually, there is! As Sky are under contractual obligation to display the logo as they are supplying the feed.

That isnt a need, it's an obligation. They should have negociated
properly so that they get a clean dog free picture and then decide
themselves how to disfigure it or not, as the case may be