Perhaps foreshadowing what’s to come in New York, at least one bus rider on the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority is fed up with the onboard TVs that blast commercials, news, and public service announcements, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.
“It's a constant assault of commercials about gray hair, mortgage rates and the weather in Atlanta," Cassel says.
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Transit TV generates about $100,000 annually for the cash-strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority, broadcasting commercials, weather reports, trivia, classic TV scenes and public-service announcements on screens mounted in its buses.The agency received about 40 complaints a month, mostly about the noise, after the service debuted in June 2005. Complaints subsided after audio levels were lowered - something riders can simply ask the driver to do.
MTA spokesman Dave Sotero also said the TVs are intended to be an amenity - not a nuisance - to passengers.
-- Chuck Bennett
