[quote name=\'bttritle\' post=\'133528\' date=\'Oct 5 2006, 05:51 AM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'133183\' date=\'Oct 2 2006, 10:45 AM\']
[quote name=\'weaklink75\' post=\'132980\' date=\'Sep 29 2006, 08:32 PM\']
edited to say: but the promo people forgot their spell check...they spelled Sweden with 2 E's and Czech Republic with a K.....[/quote]
I'm just dumbfounded that a show which purports to put a priority on knowledge would air a promo with not one but two careless mistakes like that.
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Understandable, but to be accurate, (and by no means apologize for the network) it was one mistake...I had taped DOND when that promo aired, Sweden was spelled correctly.
HOWEVER, with that said...is it the show that creates the ad space, or the network? I always thought once the content had been created (when the show is on a network), the network's promo department created the commercial. If that's the case, then blame the network, not the show.
In the same weekend, ESPN aired a graphic about the worst records for divisional winners in Major League Baseball, then highlighted the Minnesota Twins (1987), and mentioned how they "won the Wold Series".
That same weekend, "Amazing Race" had a graphic stating Peter and Sarah in Last Place, yet somehow during the reading of the detour they had vaulted into first place without even moving (the graphic had changed to "1st place").
Just wanted to point out the graphics demons of broadcast TV over the weekend.
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"I'll take this in parts, Jack."
A) Yeah -- most likely it's the promo department that had a typo, not the show.
B) If we're going to jump on ESPN, let's talk about MNF -- TWICE... not once, but TWICE they've had a super template of "AAAAAAAAAAGGGG" in the second line of a super. Once with NFL Generic as the top line during the Jags game last week and most recently the Eagles/Packers game. To correct Ben, graphics demons of broadcast AND cable TV.