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Things I Hate about TV: Forced "cross-promotion" during sporting events

by Ryan j Budke, posted Jan 5th 2006 2:20PM
BCSSo I'm watching the game last night (quick segue, great great great game, and I'm so happy Texas won; I'm sick of USC, and freaking Vince Young was amazing), and since the Rose Bowl just happened to air on a channel where there are other shows, you just know they're going to get rammed down our throats ad nauseum. A litte after 11, right after USC had just kicked it off, a little bug came up on the screen for Emily's Reasons Why Not. Keith Jackson then muttered through the description of the show before mumbling "I don't care." He then did the same thing for Jake in Progress, pronouncing John Stamos' name Stah-mos instead of Stay-mos. Now I can come at this from both angles. On one hand, I agree with Jackson; I'm sick of seeing and hearing that crap during football, and does ABC really think that this is the audience they should be promoting these two romantic comedies to? Yea, I'm gonna watch Emily's Reasons Why Not, but I'm not in the majority here. On the other hand, it is their job to do so, and that was just unprofessional. Plus, who doesn't know how to pronounce Stamos? The man's been around forever -- perhaps you've heard of his ex-wife? The networks just need to stop forcing this cross-promotion into every aspect of every show; produce quality shows, the rest will take care of itself. Let me know what you think.

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Actually, his name really is pronounced Stah-mos, its greek, thats how everyone should pronounce it

January 24 2006 at 6:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Grant

I would love if TV networks just had to produce good shows to get good ratings, but two words

Arrested Development

January 05 2006 at 5:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
elizabeth

I heard that part too. It cracked my sister and me up. I agree that the people who are watching the Rose Bowl are most likely not the crowd to watch "Emily's Reasons Why Not". It's just silly to make these sportscasters read it.

January 05 2006 at 2:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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