Kqca Channel 58

This was the first station in Sacramento to start using a «bug», in other words constantly keeping their station logo on the screen during shows. Currently their logo is a big box that says «My 58», and it’s placed towards the middle of the screen so if anyone is watching the station on an older 4×3 TV with the picture cropped, the logo won’t be cut off– how considerate of them. Every time I pass by this station I don’t see how anyone can stand to watch it. The only time you can see a clean picture on here is when they’re running infomercials– another thing only the highest-​class stations do.
They also have a sub-​channel which carries the «This TV» network. This is a national feed with mostly movies from the MGM library– all edited for TV, and with the most irritating screen bug of them all– a colored «This» logo on a black background (the yellow part really stands out on black-​and-​white shows) and if that wasn’t enough they put «SACRAMENTO» under that, in case you absolutely must know what city the station you’re watching is coming from! (I don’t know if this is done locally or not, the network is also carried on Concord’s channel 42 which puts «BAY AREA» under the bug.) The digital compression makes this channel hard to watch anyways, and the times I’ve flipped by I’ve caught some hilarious movie censoring, including blurring of naked people on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting in the movie «The Agony and the Ecstacy»! (To think channel 40 used to show uncensored R-​rated movies all the time, now we’re not even mature enough to handle this!)