So, what can we do about this problem. We all agree the pop-ups are obnoxious and distracting. We can complain 'til the cows come home, but that won't fix it. Is it the cable company or the networks that provide the little annoyances??? Are they present on satellite/DirecTV services?

If I see that obnoxious Gordon Liddy again I'm going to puke right into my remote holder. Who the hell has got enough money in this economy to buy enough gold to make it profitable. That man makes me sick to my stomach!!!!!!!

They piss me off so much I immediately hate the product or service and vow never to buy it. And then I hate the company and everything else it makes. Regardless of whether I liked the product or company before.

Who are their marketing "experts"? Comatose idiots? People have hated pop-ups from their inception. Why do you continue doing this? I will never respond well to In-My-Face. Never. And I pass on my feelings about you and your product to my household, my friends, my relatives ...

Allison, seriously, everyone HATES these pop-ups, it'd have been alot better post for you to tell us who at the networks to contact to protest this practice. They're the ones permitting this intrusion and we need a coordinated effort to protest it so it'll stop instead of, as it now is, getting worse.

SciFi's were terrible last year and early this year. A huge purple bar across 1/3rd of the screen.

Happily, SyFy's popups are a lot less obnoxious now. Semi-transparent grey bar, slightly shorter.

I had to stop watching HGTV last year in October when I was beset by their promos for an upcoming Halloween-themed craft show: not only did it start with bats flying across the left side of the screen, the banner itself took up fully ONE THIRD of the screen.
This was while I was watching a craft show and the banner prevented me from seeing the demonstration of technique I had tuned in for in the first place.

They also ran another VERY BIG and intrusive promo for a book by one of their on-air personalities, Carol Duvall.. however, when you went to the website being advertised, the books were sold out.


So we're getting five- and six-minute-long commercial breaks plus pop up banners and bugs during the program. Are they really trying to drive us away from television altogether?

What time does shovin' buddies start?

It all started with the second tier networks i.e. CW, MyQ and Fox. It's totally obnoxious. They tell you what you're already watching. They tell you what's on next. They tell you what's on in two weeks or a frik'n month. Not only that they put an ad in the channel logo space that they won't take away. It's enough to make you quit commercial TV and just watch DVDs.

What's worse is when we're watching some of our local main TV stations in HD, when they add the pop-up ads the video becomes standard definition and doesn't fill the screen. When the ads go away, HD is back. Plus, there's a skip in the video and audio when the ads come in and out. So damn annoying.

I didn't mind them when they were opaque. But the full color with animations is annoying as hell. What makes A&E think that because I am watching criminal minds repeats on their channel that I would be interested in The Real Housewives. The ads wouldn't be so bad if they were targeted correctly. If I am watching a show about serial killers and rapists why would I care about The Real Housewives show. Maybe if the pop up was about their show Cold Case Files that would be more appropriate. I really hate it when the cover a good portion of the screen. I am trying to watch here people move that crap.