What their next move? As for TV, I enjoyed TCMs commercial-free screenings of classic films, but realized I was overpaying for the amount of time I watched the channel. I realize that someone has to pay for the freight so why not charge more for commercial time and have fewer of them? The standard length of a TV ad is 30 seconds long. My biggest gripe now is after all the ads are done and they finally go back to the show, they are pasting ads while Im trying to watch. GMA and other shows are guilty of pouring over 10 minutes of commercials continuously! Its the same with the national news media. I was watching the season finale of agents of shield, for an hour long show the actual show only showed in 5 minute intervals, the commercials lasted 10-12 minutes. I use to like watching CBS this morning but by the time they finish their 15 minutes of ads I was forgetting what they were going to show next. More time spent on ads than on the story itself. I could be interested in watching them but stopped watching. Have been watching over the air channels for a year because cable is a rip off. Zero stories about how insurance companies rob citizens, then penalize them because their credit scores go down (huh?) we can always go back to the formula from the 50s where advertisers sponsored a whole program, of course, if you look at shows now they are pretty much sponsored anyhow, I remember a few episodes of Burn Notice when Fiona got that Hyundai, and the blatant advertising was horrendously written into the script! Not only is most programming very repetitive and out dated is the constant same commercials and infomercials. Copy. OK we all HATE commercials but what can we do about it? I do NOT have a personal relationship with my insurer (geico lizards be damned). As I recall almost of the commercials in the 1960s were one minute long. Best thing we ever did. In these approximately These channels wont keep discriminating audiences for very long at the rate they are going down the road to commercialization. NetFlix/Hulu/Etc are it. and all of it due to GREED/their need to make as much money as possible!!!!!!!!! I remember why cable tv started.. Im tired of being brainwashed with all the stupidity of the ads being shown. I cant recommend it highly enough. Less money and no ads {except Hulu). Just finished watching the newest Bates Motel even though i recorded and was skipping commercials I was baffled at how many times i had to hit the 30 second skip. Thats the other reason that it will continue. Yes. of commercials. Weve stopped watching television in our house. David Muirs nightly news at 6:30 is absolutely THE WORST when it comes to commercials. Commercials have been a bane of mine for quite some time. Discovery Channel is worst over 20 mins of commercials per hour I want to quit watching, Look guys this stupid asshole states he enjoys comedy commercials. On a different note, the channels with ads bunched them together at the 15 minute mark, so you could plan your day better. I subscribe to Sling for sports, but will be cutting that as well,in a day or two. Aggravating, distracting and actually counterproductive. Webwithout Ofcoms prior permission, exceed an average of eight minutes an hour on any one day. Netflix and streaming services are a good option. Please correct me if I am wrong. You need to have the dislike of commercials force you to stop watching? CNN has a quality second to none in its content and news reporting There is no doubt about that. One minute of news then cut to 5 of adverts. Im pretty sure they have added at least 1.5 mins of commercials this year per hour. The wash is started and I make my beds during the next commercials. ASPCA LIES. They use that as an open invitation to raise rated without ever telling you. UNTIL, we Boycott TV all together. Youre shelling out good money for the dubious privilege of being treated like a mindless consumer. The frequent interruptions also add to our anger and frustration. the average 1 hour show has 17-18 minutes of advertisements. So sick of the same stupid commercials on the comedy network Its getting even more annoying this year. True Roy. PBS. The commercials are horribly produced for the most part. Not to mention that they are now speeding up the regular programming ever so slightly so they can squeeze in another mindless ad. Action must be taken for all these legitimate complaints. Thats why I have a dozen old remotes with worn out mute buttons. Write and send your complaints to the FCC. Just stopped watching MSNBC. The comments posted here, if they were put in written letter form (NOT emails), properly addressed to the FCC would certainly approach the desired effect of annoying the person responsible for reading and respondong to each of them. Now that Dish has taken it to a new level (automatically skipping commercials) I suppose our lazy fingers can still manually figure how to Fast Forward as weve been doing for 30+ years. We are the consumer and if we impact that which we are so unreceptive to by not watching surely TV executives will deal with it in a manner that will be acceptable by us. Advanced nations in the world should be funding contraception for women in third-world nations anyway. The Journals analysis found that commercials took up about an hour, or one-third, of the game. Thats the only thing they understand. 2- When we watch annoying commercials I will go out of my way to avoid buying the product or services. Look it up. I just counted 23 commercials in HALF of a half hour show! On the TV guide will be 5 or more channels sheerly for products being sold. It is totally stupid to waste money on commercials that are longer than My hunch is that the 13-minute figure is way low! Thank you for this I agree 100%. About 25-30% of the tv show is not what we want to see. I get much better information from online news sources, apps like The Guardian, and from international streaming sources, all of which are free and are much lighter on the commercial load. Is your bathroom closer to the TV? Increase in commercials? In the US there are approximately eight or 8-1/2 minutes of commercials per half hour of Broadcast Television. Im not real sure what you might do with these comments but pretty sure nothing will be done! NBCU sits at the bottom, with 11.1. So there was only 20 minutes of the actual show. GET A GRIP ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS AND TV CHANNELSWE DO NOT WANT TO SEE SO DARN MANY COMMERCIALSPERIOD! I also mute all commercials. Only then will they experience 1/100 of the misery the rest of us go through. I dont know if that still applies but I just got finished watching a movie on Oxygen channel and I counted 18 commercials in one break and 19 in the next one and those were just the last 2 commercial breaks. So why pay the extraordinary high price of cable or satellite to watch commercials, I would understand if tv was free but with the price we pay, there shouldnt be any commercials at all!! I think we all like to sit down in front of the tellie and watch a movie, sitcom or the news without so very many interruptions. The only commercial breaks are at the half time, and they go on for about half of the fifteen half-time interval on the upper end (7.5 minutes). games are 60 I had seen the excellent movie Jack Reacher, and recommended it to friendsI saw it was coming on FX, so called them to watch itI was so mad when all we got were interviews we had no interest in, so many commercials breaks that you couldnt remember what movie you were watching, and two brainless idiots telling us what the movie was about..DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!! Ha! These greedy bastards better wake up, streaming subscriptions are surpassing cable satillite. She at Shaw told me it was mailed June 01,2021, I never opened it because I got a notice on my computer over due, That is a insult to me .Thank You in Advance ,But we both know the outcome. I noticed on one channel they have commercials about every 12 to 15 minutes for the first 45 minutes. Morning Joe is the worse. Thats the good old american way. It seems the ad companies and those pushing their products dont grasp the principal of diminishing returns. How many commercials are show on an average commercial break? Believe it or not, once you get used to being patient enough to wait for a series to run its course, its really not that hard to do. They dont see people they see $ sign, Online streaming services surpassed television. AND SO DO THEY , fucx corporate CHINA now the usa suks ass big time, CORPORATE FUCKIN DAILY FUCK THESE GREED MONGERS kick their stupid ass to curb ,GOD will sort these FAGGOTS OUT and be judged,,,,,, COCKSUCKERS. Mind numbing, not to mention Butt numbing, broaden your horizons, get a hobby. I dont watch much broadcast or cable TV anymore, but there are some good shows out there. then utter greed took over and they pretend it;s because of freedom of something or other!! And another thing: The ads to support runaways, starving children (in every country), children with deformed lips or limbs, St Judes cancer hospital, desks and education of children in Africa, and abandoned and/or abused animals all for just $12/month or $19/month or $29/month. There are no actual reporters anymore WHO TRULY FIND THE NEWS AND DEVELOP IT What burns me up the most are the small viewer days like Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If YOU REALLY WANT IT TO STOP THEN READ THIS, UNITE, ORGANIZE AND PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUR LOCAL CABLE PROVIDER THIS JULY 1ST (WHICH IS A THURSDAY AND A BUSINESS DAY JUST BEFORE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF 2017!). Post A Comment. m. The real concern for American citizens is the lack of FCC and State Commerce agency oversight . I now have an antenna set up to receive local programming on approx 25 to 40 stations. You will learn to appreciate our Gift of Life, and have your brain enhanced as well. The commercial lasts from 15 to 30 seconds and there would be more than one company or product advertised. The cable operators employ a large staff of highly paid lobbyists to twist the arms of these Streaming services are similar to what cable used to in the beginning. Not to mention the newscaster is CUT OFF IN MID SENTENCE. Its rediculus that some commercials last as long as 7 minutes or longer. It does absolutely NO GOOD to gripe about TV ads on forums like this one. It is merely a place for the broadcasters to offer an opinion or guests who push them or the show SO THAT THEY GET PAID. 3- I would imagine buying a new TV will not be a priority for most people. But Ive had too much of advertising on TV. Theres a far better world in Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. Hit them in their bank account. Please help us! Instead of about 20 total names, now everyone who did anything during the production gets credit for it, but their names are zapped so fast and small you wont know anyway. We are not getting the product, for which were paying for. Im pretty much done with that. If that is still the case most of the channels are not following that. its absolutely ridiculous people are already acting and driving that way.This world is going to hell in a hand basket and it need to STOP!!! I hit the mute first, then click back to blue blank off air channeltheyre right though, tooooo many commercials and Ive noticed within the last 60 days, its getting worsegrowl!!! And if you still need to spend money on good television, support your local PBS station. Remember when a cable subscription meant no commercials? So, why not just put a 23 inch screen in the upper left or right of the screen and play the commercials over and over again with all the noise, and stupidity that these commercials now depict. I havent watched commercials in years, since TIVO came out. Especially with a Republican majority in Congress, the party that would eliminate all regulation. The amount of times I have to see the same car ads have driven me to madness. As a former radio production engineer, I cannot tolerate the current ratio of commercials to music and have abandoned listening to radio entirely. I pride myself on having this information. Kick your cable TV to the curb. So much Advertisement it covers every thing I want to read GREED by the program actors and producers is the cause of all the AdsIt absolutely riduclous the number of Ads we have to sit through to watch a show on TV.5 minutes of Show/5 minutes of Ads,we get 30 minutes of show of whats supposed to be an hour show and 15 minutes of show of whats supposed to be a half hour show and the actors get 6 figures a show. Disgusting! Every sitcom episode has a main plot (story A), as well as one or two subplots (stories B and C). WTF! We are already doing that they just dont care and since more people are switching to streaming they need more adds to cover their lost profit, hence more commercials per hour, I cant stand fox NFL on Sundays or Thursday night football bc they fuck with more commercials then football damn it. Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. You would think that with age comes wisdom and the fact that these people post here is a good tool for companies to get a feel of who they are dealing with and can make adjustments at different levels in an effort to keep these customers no matter what it takes. Why pay to watch commercials. I looked this up and wrote this while waiting for some actual news on CNN. Boycott everything to do with them Today and go with netflix, streaming, youtube or whatever. Its been WAY out of control for far too long. TV Drama Breakdown: Explore the Act Structure of 'This is The irony is that consumer based propaganda (ads) helps sell the political propaganda that frequently masquerades as news. This might be a good thing as we free ourselves from the idiot box and start taking in our surroundings. WebIn the USA, the average amount of commercial time is a little over 1/4 of the air time. No and now Frontier has added a fast forward rejection for commercials. These breaks run BOYCOTT YOUR LOCAL CABLE PROVIDER THIS COMING JULY 1ST. We, as human beings, watch way too much tv, and its been proven make us more complacent rather than free thinking, emotionally intelligent people. Once you begin enjoying some of their wide variety of comm free programming, you will actually want to support them as well. We refuse to pay $100 a month anymore for TV broadcasting full of ads that mostly insult our intellegence. Funny because I have recently noticed that the commercials are growing there too. You truly expect me to believe that, as 3 commercial breaks have occurred while I have been searching for the comment button, and typing all this, GMA and other shows are guilty of pouring over 10 minutes of commercials continuously! In addition to that I do watch international programming on a free site that does have some commercials, but I do quick chores when the ads come on. Our days now dont have enough hours in them. You trying to blind us? I watch PBS for the majority of my shows. So it got too expensive for advertisers. Youd have to be an idiot to buy something they have to advertise every 10 minutes i buy the stuff they dont advertise because it speaks for itself, We are developing an APP that allows you to prerecord any program less the commercials. The number of commercials shown in a typical hour of television has increased steadily over the past five years, the Los Angeles Times Company Town reports, citing a study from Nielsen. A commercial every 3 to 4 minutes. How much does it pay? Oh, I dont get any money. I was trying to find out about tv shows back in the 60s & 70s & cant seem to find an answer. But now I always have my remote in my hand. The first commercial comes in just a couple of minutes. Too many channels, too many commercials is killing tv. But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. John. with no gadgets. I have noticed a great increase in commercialson TNT morning shows and they are all the same old ones. Its no secret. You have to factor in all of the late night infomercials as well. I rarely look at But the thing that I cant understand is the fact that customers think that posting their complaints will actually have any impact on anything. Then the total commercial load is closer to 50%. Better yet watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or any of the other pay services. Commercials comprised 14 minutes and 15 seconds of each hourof TV on broadcast networks in 2013, up from 13 minutes and 25 seconds in 2009, according to Boy, I cant wait for track and field, Just comment on Comcast cable TV- WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. AARPs rival AMAC spends its money actually working on behalf of senior citizensnot wasting multiple millions on dishonest ads wooing unaware seniors to part with their money by joining AARP. The license to operate over the public airways comes with responsibilities-it was never meant to be As yet they have not choreographed their commercials to run concurrently which I find to be a blessing. The only way to send a clear message without wasting your time compossing an on line post that they will never see or care about, is to cancel your cable and when they ask why, tell them it costs too much to watch crap mixed with more comer isls than content. Its all a matter of scheduling your day!!! I swear, no more than 45-60 seconds of show, then 2+ full min. That set the template for everything that has happened since then, and somehow people have forgotten it. if the public hated the show, the sponsor was screwed. It is true that he advertising pays for the program. Its past time to turn it off! I listen to talk radio and in 1/2 hour there is about 16 minutes of commercials, the olympics on NBC is awful To many commercials.across the board no matter what channel you are watching. These commercial messages account for 36% of I have read 191 comments regarding the disgust of Each of us only have a certain amount of time that we will get to live and be here on this earth. I spend my spare time with YouTube now. PULL THE PLUG!! WebYou begin and end them as you would a sitcom, however there are no scene breaks. If waiters and waitresses live on 15% tips the so can TV advertisers. No commercials. gave me a G-mail Address, they even got that spelled wrong But it worked. my dad told me that there was an FCC regulation on how many commercials could be shown at one time. I say God bless TMC which runs entire classic movies without commercial interruption. That very first soap ad on TV eons ago screwed us. I am sorry if I have caused any offence. In other words, they dont just break INTO a show, and then resume at that same point in the show after the commercial, but they break OVER actual show content, and when the show resumes you never know that you missed part of the show, it was just left out! Yes, there is way too many commercials on regular tv! According to Nielsen, advertisers spent $78 billion on TV commercials in 2013, compared to $64 billion in 2009. This is in Canada using telus. Ill copy and save it and try again if it does. Do they think the cable providers care if you are watching? But to see all I wanted, I was forced to go to the Dark Side, A fireTV stick, properly programmed, gets me most everything I could ever want to watch for free, no commercials. I seem to recall that Saint Ronald Reagan deregulated, along with much else, the maximum commercial time on television. To whom should we forward our requests for relief from excessive TV advertising? I think that this channels target demographic must be senior citizens/shut ins/ and lower income folks, since most of the ads feature manipulative begging for money (ASPCA), products that aid the elderly, and medical information. I have not watched TV for several years now. I believe he also told me that they were limited on how long the commercial breaks could be. Lying crooks! I graduated college in 1993 with Communications major radio and television all of the instructors told us commercials who would be gone and the not too distant future boy were they full of BS. i remember those great days when commercials were regulated by law. I too refuse to buy anything theyre selling Thanks for listening. time slot to show 1.5/1.75 hour movie . Ill bet you every penny I have that Google has already copied and filed this post Im going to post and might even try to block me from getting it posted by not allowing my catpcha to work or simply error the page and clear the screen . I mute all commercials, and if I do see an advertiser on way more than others, I never buy their product. Theyll ride that horse until it drops dead on them. I am almost off my blood pressure meds. On cable TV, the growth has been even more significant, the report notes. I get Amazon Prime free because Im a member (and use Amazon to order a lot of stuff). Its simply not worth the aggravation. I share a Netflix account with my daughter and have recently subscribed to YouTubeTV for a fraction of what Comcast was charging. The practice continues because it works and again, it is a necessary component of the business model. Nobody does it better. After reading through 80% of these posts I have concluded that I myself am very surprised that cable was still available and people were actually paying for it?
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