I have just wandered by TNN to see the infamous "black bar," a black strip that obscures the bottom tenth of the screen with the series title on the left and their ID "bug" on the right, "The new TNN." People rave and rant themselves into a froth about the thing all over the television newsgroups. Annoying as all these little ID logos are, I don't count the black bar as anything all that horrible. At least it's waaaaay at the bottom of the screen, unlike the horrible, brightly colored "bug" that Discovery Kids uses that obscures a sixth of the screen. Or the little "popups" that several channels use during a documentary to refer you to their website. I count it worse that TNN is very apparently using some type of time compression. The program airing when I surfed by was The Waltons and in one scene where Miss Emily Baldwin showed a young man to the table to eat, it looked as if it were an old Keystone Kops comedy, it was that speeded up. Ugh!

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. . . . . noted and logged by Linda at 11:41:00 AM

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