Just be thankful that TV networks haven’t used this tactic as another way to do advertising for their sponsors…yet.
Oops, I probably shouldn’t be giving them ideas! 
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WIN and SCTV (7) never does it. Prime7 rarely. At least there’s one advantage for regional viewers.
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Independently owned regional networks don’t do it unless it’s an O&O regional like NBN or STQ.
CTV is the worst offender I’ve seen for that
And if they do, I’d like to think that the ACMA will see that as a breach of the 14 mins per hour (or whatever it is) advertising limits and come down hard on them.
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25th Anniversary Watermark on CTV (Canterbury, NZ). As seen during Classic Resto’s tonight.
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Another good thing for SCTV viewers too is no watermark unless it comes on the network feed for news or sports.
I think that the current limits on advertising is 13 minutes per hour outside of election periods, but I’d have to check on that.
Of course, I completely agree!
CTV Canada has full opacity, animated advertisements that appear during programs that cover at least 1/4 of the entire screen 
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Stereovision…Stereo 9! (inverted i know)
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I can’t think of any other network apart from SCTV that still don’t have any onscreen watermark.
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Aspire TV doesn’t have a watermark (well, the last I checked anyway) but that probably doesn’t count! 
IIRC, the shortlived “Fresh Ideas TV” channel from Seven also didn’t have a watermark and was actually completely devoid of any station branding!
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[quote=“stilesykenny, post:398, topic:252, full:true”]
I can’t think of any other network apart from SCTV that still don’t have any onscreen watermark.[/quote]Neither. It’s not like they aren’t capable either, as they themselves do apply the network sports watermarks whenever they have to on the clean feeds they recieve on AFL etc.
Not that I at all mind as I’d rather them over WIN and their constant obsession of covering all network watermarks with gigantic blocks.
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Some more NZ watermarks
TVNZ Duke
BBC UKTV
Sky Sport 1, Non LIVE programming
BBC Knowledge
The Edge TV
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Reminds me of this!
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Ha, ACMA unaware of the breaches going on all the time. If a program promotion goes longer than 10 seconds, and shorter than a brief program excerpt, whatever that is, then it is included in that hourly total. (13 minutes average over the 6 prime time hours, but allowed to be as long as 15 minutes). So a watermarked commercial is really no different to a watermarked promotion. It’s just that nobody’s challenged the watermark promos. I imagine the networks know there would be backlash, though, if commercials popped up permanently over program segments.
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According to the guidelines material that does not count as advertising includes “superimposed text or visual matter occupying only part of the screen during a Program” so watermarks are clearly exempt.
We already have commercials seen across the bottom of the screen during NRL matches on Nine.
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doesn’t NRL not do ad breaks as well due to play. whereas in AFL after each goal an ad can be played, so they need to integrate ads into NRL more.