I hate to be the guy to tell you, man. But, they’ve been doing this shit for like, 30 years man.

I can't ignore the old TV.

I'm honestly impressed there are still functional, floor-model rear-projection TVs.

This is a weird take. That ticker telling you about scores and schedules for a whole bunch of different sports has been on ESPN forever.

I am not going to ignore the old TV. That's rad as hell and I am jealous.

Isn't the whole point of sports to be able to advertise?

We have very different ideas of what a banner ad is

Honestly I would take the little banner if it meant there was not comerical breaks. The fact that they do this on top of all the ads they also play at breaks is so over the top. I have been getting into European football and I find it so refreshing that they play 45 mins half straight through. It's way faster games and there is not the disruption of comericals. In those games they have the banner, but I don't mind it as much

That TV looks killer for retro consoles...

that's espn, dude.

Your TV is awesome, and I'd would absolutely love to play some Metal Gear Solid on that bastard.

I actually struggled to identify what part of the screen was an ad, and I'm less able to be outraged about a TV channel displaying what content they will be broadcasting later than ads for unrelated products. Similar to how I'm okay with or even want to see movie previews before a movie, but I better not see a commercial for insurance or consumer electronics.

I hate the mid-game ads that take up 2/3 of the screen

That's fucking irritating.

I love your tv tho and cant ignore it. My dad had one of these beasts when I was young it had to be over 300 pounds easy. Thing never moved once it was there.

Damn that TV must have very good sounds compared to nowadays TV

That’s actually called a “bug”—not the software error kind, though. In sports broadcasts, we get the classic “score bug,” always been there, usually small and tucked in a corner to keep things low-key. But what you’re seeing here, this whole bottom-of-the-screen takeover, is way more like those old-school news channel bugs from back in the ‘90s or early 2000s. You know, the ones that would stretch across the screen with stock prices, news updates, whatever they wanted to throw at you, right underneath the main action. It’s more intrusive for sure, but not anything wild—it’s actually been around for decades.

I've completely given up on watching broadcast TV. Recently they made a change in Germany, where you have to pay extra for cable TV. Which I won't do so now I don't have cable any more. I haven't even noticed the difference.

Have you watched a game of Association Football (or real football) lately? They digitally alter the ads on physical LED banners for different broadcast regions.

This was already common practice to promote other shows during broadcasts way back when I last watched broadcast TV over a decade and a half ago.

That's good. It should serve as a reminder that you need to abandon a dinosaur push media. It's a subtle way to punish normies who haven't caught on yet.