I came across an interesting blog post today which showed a text advert appearing across the screen on the UK TV station ITV during an episode of Emmerdale (see picture).Fortunately for me I had persuaded my Girlfriend not to watch Emmerdale so didn't get to see the TV show myself or witness any obtrusive adverts.
According to the blog post the show was being watched on digital TV, although it has not been stated what PVR, set top box or service provider that was being used.
I doubt this would have been done by ITV itself but rather by the company providing the digital service or alternatively it could have been some sort of error.
Did anyone else in the UK witness this and what service provider were you using?
1. To me it looks like one of those "press the red button" announcements you see on digital channels in the UK.
ITV owns one of the quiz channels so I am guessing that this relates to one of their channels.
Depending on what type of digital signal it is, it should be easy to remove this.
Posted at 1:02PM on Nov 25th 2006 by iFelix