[gottago]

The BBC digital DOGs were removed in the very very early days of digital broadcasting when it would have been only early adaptors who had the technology, who were perhaps more technical minded and also more minded to complain about things like that. BBC Choice eventually reinstated their DOG.

There was a very vocal anti-DOG/bug campaign online for many years in the early 2000s, and it seemed to encompass both "normal" viewers and geeks like ourselves. I always thought it was a peculiarly British thing because no other country seemed to mind as much about DOGs, not even America who'd had them on their major terrestrial channels since the mid-90s or so.

Yes it was very vocal, I remember it really dominating chat on both TV Forum and DS. DOGs have never been a thing I've been wound up by, I just don't notice them after a few seconds and I was always bemused by the sheer hatred for them.