Now that I'm going to the gym, the amount of live television that I watch has gone through the roof: I'm generally getting around 40 minutes of CNN a day, compared with ~six hours of actual broadcast TV watched for the entirety of 2005.
I'm also occasionally catching things on the other stations to—and something on NBC struck me as a bit odd. Surely, you're all aware of the NBC "peacock" logo at the top of this article. In nearly every sports event broadcast on NBC, they generally put the logo in one of the corners both in a grayscale "emboss" over the image (generally in the top right corner), as well as a fully-colored logo on the sports info overlays (generally on the bottom right). I admit that I have absolutely no frame of reference here (so correct me if I'm wrong) but on nearly all NBC sports broadcasts, the overlay logo is in full color.
So it's interesting that on the broadcast of some sort of rodeo on NBC today, the overlay logo in the bottom right—the one that I would expect to be full color—was outlined in silver with no color in the peacock's "feathers."
If I were NBC, would I modify the logo on rodeo coverage overlays so it didn't look so, err, metropolitan? Probably.
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