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Sky living: no more DOG in certain shows or error?

(July 2015)

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Nathan
Up until recently Sky Living has been putting DOGs up in certain acquired shows, I.e. criminal minds, but it appears to be gone in all shows now - error or intentional? I might be a little late to this as I mostly watch via recordings.
LL
London Lite Founding member
On all the Sky branded channels I've watched, the DOG only shows briefly, even Game of Thrones on Sky Atlantic doesn't have it throughout and that's the biggest show they have.
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VMPhil
They're inconsistent about it. Whenever I've watched Sky1 they've always faded the DOG off, but recently on Sky Living it's been on permanently. Similarly a year or so ago it started appearing on Sky Arts again, but I haven't seen it since.

If you watch on +1 however, the '+1' DOG is always there on the opposite side of the screen, whether the main logo is on permanently or not.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Admittedly Living is the channel I rarely ever watch to notice. Arts is like Sky1 and Atlantic with the DOG fading.
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Nathan
It looks like someone in the gallery may be falling asleep - it seems to fade in and out at random, sometimes staying and sometimes not!
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radiobloke
It looks like someone in the gallery may be falling asleep - it seems to fade in and out at random, sometimes staying and sometimes not!


It'll be a DOG on/off command in the automation system attached to the pres template, so could be that they're in the process of migrating to the style used on the other Sky channels where it's not permanently on. I've never really understood why Living started doing this, when of all channels you'd think Atlantic would want the permanent DOG - presumably a marketing decision.

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