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Why do ITV blur out the channel 9 logo
John.Ditchfield
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I nknow Sky do it for reasons only known to themselves but during the cricket ITV have adopted this style anyone know the reason?
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John.Ditchfield
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I don't know why they do this. Any ideas anyone?
The year is blurred on You've Been Framed so you can't tell they are repeating old clips.
Am I close to being right about this?
thats the thing ITV are just replaying channel 9's highlights package with their commentaries which are better than Sky's
if ITV sold coverage to nine would they do the same I wonder
I'm curious to know why, legally?
I've noticed flicking through Sky's American Football coverage that they air the host broadcasters logos untouched.
everyone knows the YBF are recycled clips as only a few are British the rest are American hence the reverse way the date is given
The Broadcasting Act forbids commercial broadcasters from any promotional reference to another organisation without editorial justification. It's called "Undue Prominence".
There is no editorial justification for showing another broadcaster's logo for the entire duration of a show, so it has to be blurred out.
Incidentally for the first three tests, channel Nine provided the feed without the logo, so the question should be why they aren't for the fourth test.
that said there were times when the More4 episodes of The Daily Show, had a blurred out Comedy Central logo, and some times it came clean
just proves there is no constant rule being applied
ok lets take this a bit further Sky dont blur out the WWE logo then again they wouldnt dare as they get paid loadsa money
Win Television on the over hand try to cover all channel 9 watermarks, I think it looks awful when they show Channel 9 news programs and wack there WIN News slab over 9 News ones their sporting coverup does not looks as bad now, all general entertainment programming they seem to get a clean feeds off 9 where they use their transparent map of Australia watermark
the channels over the states that wwe are aired on are the USA network and SyFy.
and occasionaly the wwe logo has to go in the top right hand corner, if the show is aired on NBC
Why, might they think they're watching ITV9?
Does no-one from the UK send in clips any more then?
That's exactly what I think too. It's like an apology: "Sorry that bit of the coverage was so awful, but it's nothing to do with us - they're not our pictures." Every time I see something a bit ropey coming from Channel 9, my eyes always drop to the bottom of the screen, just to see if Sky put up the apologetic "Match coverage provided by Channel 9" message again.
I'm not sure that any part of the above is true.
If it is, please explain why ESPN America leave the FOX Sports logos on for the entirity of every baseball game they show together with their own logo. They do the same with games they show off any other broadcaster like Peachtree TV, Rogers Sportsnet or MASN.
Others have also pointed out that Channel 4 leave the CBS logo on, so do SKY News when they carry the CBS Evening News & that's recorded & played out an hour later
ESPN America doesn't make any of it's own programmes, it just shows programmes from other channels.
In the case of news, there is an editorial justification... indeed an editorial necessity to let the viewer know that this is a different perspective on news coverage.
No, i'm not sure whether a channel makes it's own shows or not has anything at all to do with it.
It makes no sense at all for channels that make their own shows like ITV/BBC/ 4 & 5 to be forced to blur logos while other channels dont have to & as others have pointed out 4 don't blur them anyway & 5 never did on baseball coverage, so i would guess it's a decision a channel makes for it's own reasons & has nothing to do with any editorial justification rule or indeed any broadcasting rule