The time used to air station material is time they can sell as ad spots and the purposes of them are fulfilled by other aspects of TV nowadays (IDs with watermarks, schedules and ratings with the EPG & supers). But my inner TV nerd really wants to see them back.
IDs still kind of live on regionally to fill unsold ad spots and sponsor billboards or to (re)sync with the metro feed. But they’re hardly of the quality or interest-factor that they used to be now that everything aligns exactly with the metro brands.
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