OMG!!!

The simulcast of the women's NCAA basketball championship on ESPN2 is the weirdest thing I've seen on TV in ages. While you get the "traditional" coverage on ESPN, ESPN2 has a screen split six different ways (in addition to a score-ticker). One screen covers about 55% of the screen and gives you the typical camera angle for a sporting event. Meanwhile, four screens which are about 10% fo the screen each remain fixated on the coaches for each team, and the star player on each team. The remaining space goes alternates between showing statistics and instant replays. Accordingly, the viewer is bombarded with six moving screens at once, usually containing different stimuli. Perhaps I'm a bit set in my ways, and I'm too old to be a part of the ADD-ridden technology-obsessed Millennial generation, but I can't help but to think this is another one of those instances where something innovative isn't necessarily a good idea (also see: those silly glowing pucks FOX came up with for the NHL in the 1990s).