Pop-up Ads Coming to A TV Near You

Muddie writes "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that television execs and advertising agencies think product placement and the 30 second commercial spot are not getting the respect they deserves from us consumers, so in order to combat us ignoring them, there will be pop-up ads taking up the lower quarter of your screen during normal programming. Not only that, but the ads will run during relevant portions of the programming (see a guy shaving in the mirror, get a pop-up ad from a razor company). Do "They" think we just don't see enough advertising in a day? If you aren't busy throwing things through your television yet, you can read the article over here (with no pop-up ads)."

Done...

[EvanED]

Discovery channel does that with upcoming shows already. Though they take up more like the lower ninth, last only a few seconds, and only happen just after commercial breaks.

Re:I see an opportunity for Tivo Programmers

[Anonymous Coward]

Uhhh... Impossible. Since it's part of the broadcast... It's part of the broadcast.

EdTV, anyone?

[barzok]

This is exactly what was done in the "TV show" in EdTV [imdb.com]. I'm surprised it took them this long to "invent" it for real TV.

Re:Yeah and...

[Moonwick]

What a great idea; do you shoot the postman when he delivers junk mail?

As this [fcc.gov] handy search page can tell you, Time Warner doesn't own a single TV station. So tell me, how exactly do you plan to make the big, bad TV stations "pay" for their right to make money?

Get a clue.

Re:marketed out of existence

[twisted_pickle]

This came from http://www.blindwino.com/bigwino.html.

That would be one Mark Driver

[the_Speed_Bump]

http://www.blindwino.com/driverjunk15.html

Re:Guh-Faw!

[letxa2000]

The correct term is "American."

Citizens of the "United States of Mexico" are commonly called "Mexicans" just as citizens of the United States of America are commonly called Americans.

Someone who lives in North America may be called "North American" and someone who lives in South America may be called "South American."

There is no continent called "America", although North and South America are often referred to collectively as "The Americas."

References:

1. World Atlas [worldatlas.com]
2. World Atlas 2000 [worldatlas2000.com]
3. The Continents [infoplease.com]
4. Continents of the World [aneducatio...orium.info]
5. World Facts and Figures [worldfactsandfigures.com]

Now can we please just accept that Americans are Americans? Those that persist with this "Americans is everyone in the western hemisphere" line are just people with an axe to grind and are trying to take away part of Americans' identity by making it politically incorrect to call yourself American.

Get over it.

Re:Guh

[flacco]

For heaven's sake, put down the remote and turn off the damn TV already. You can find better things to do. Really.

I've more or less done that. The problem is that the Internet has taken on the same role for me that TV used to have. Damn thee Slashdot!