Was reading comments and agree with news commercial breaks, they have pay the ridiculous 7 figure salaries of the anchors. WebThe National Football League requires sixteen commercial breaks per game, with eight in each half. Exceptions to this are overtime periods, which have none. They create ads and then asks you to pay not to watch them. The sad thing is I cant change channels fast enough or mute the damn things fast enough to prevent me from going into a rage screaming at the TV ( cause I dont want to hurt anyones feelings?) And if you still need to spend money on good television, support your local PBS station. I record all the shows I want to watch so that I can fast forward commercials. One minute of news then cut to 5 of adverts. It sure does. 9 commercials in a row on KMGH channel 9 on Wednesday, 10/13/21, Why? For the sake of comparison, Ad Age timed the ad breaks on a few other channels and found them to average 3-4 minutes with the occasional 5-minute break. An entirely new business model is needed for TV. These commercials are terrible for news programs because a viewer never gets to know anything about a story because of interruptions. I told my family and friends its time to shut it all down and watch C.D.s I have On two of those three networks, the start time for the show is like 3:06PM and ends at 3:36PM. On cable TV, the growth has been even more significant, the report notes. Its terrible. Google has shown us that everything they touch will cost you in some way, if not directly in cash you will give up privacy and bombarding you with add is their coup de grace. Just as most of the complaints on too many commercials we have cut down on TV watching BY 70% They said frickin at least 300 times Commercial creep was a factor in my decision to dump cable altogether in favor of ad-free streaming services. I have been keeping track of the commercial minutes and programming minutes on DISH, it averages 5 minutes of commercials and 9 minutes of programming. You will learn to appreciate our Gift of Life, and have your brain enhanced as well. Better quality with clearer reception and sound. Then the total commercial load is closer to 50%. The number came out to 25 minutes of commercials and just over 22 minutes of actual show. I was watching a 1951 episode of the Adventures of Superman..guess how long the actual run time was..28.50 minutes exactly. Now they get 4 commercials for the same price. Mainly because of the time allotted for commercials. No and now Frontier has added a fast forward rejection for commercials. my money pay for ?My last Shaw Bill took 21 days to get to my Mail box. No commercials{netflix}, cheaper, limitied choice yes but your not supposed to be watching that much damn tv in the first place. Netflix and streaming services are a good option. Few if any commercials because that is what the monthly fee was for and there would be no need for commercials. A commercial every 3 to 4 minutes. I will start keeping a list of advertised merchandise and at least I can refuse to purchase the items interrupting my programs. In some cases they play the same commercials several times in one spot. I can no longer pay for TV and have more minutes of advertising than a program I am canceling my Direct TV. Had to quit watching. Doing this makes me even madder knowing that these folk lie to their advertisers about live viewer numbers. Either lower the amount of COMMERCIALS to no more than 25% or have them send your TV Bill to the Networks. (A DVR just makes the viewer go back and forth too much) Im a retired senior and watch too much TV but Im going to the library more often and gradually watching less. It seems the news interrupts a stream of hideous car ads etc. Its all a matter of scheduling your day!!! This situation has grown steadily worse every month and year. Thank you for this I agree 100%. But Ive had too much of advertising on TV. I will mute the TV & go do something else or program the flashback button to TCM, where Im not subjected to mindless insurance, prescription drug and acne ads. Most hour-long television series episodes will consist of a Teaser scene, followed by Act One, Act Two, Act Three, Act How about a government run insurance that only takes premiums to cover claims, and administrative costs, and returns ALL extra monies on a pro rata basis back to the customers? Thus, a sitcom script is generally between 25 and 40 pages long. After seeing all to the ads here, I now think we could do the same. The greed of TV networks has overrun our program viewing. How much does it pay? Oh, I dont get any money. There must be a better solution if they want to keep any viewers. Its been WAY out of control for far too long. I pride myself on having this information. 2 minutes of swimming, then 6 minutes of commercials, 45 second of an interview, 5 minutes of commercials-Same thing with gymnastics I was trying to find out about tv shows back in the 60s & 70s & cant seem to find an answer. Too many adsfar too many dishonest ads & profligate lies, l4ies & more LIES! Is your bathroom closer to the TV? On a different note, the channels with ads bunched them together at the 15 minute mark, so you could plan your day better. So much Advertisement it covers every thing I want to read Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. Our cable bill is out of sight, we are cutting the cable and going over the air or even tossing out our tVs. I usually always watch two shows at once , and sometimes itll be three , so when Commercials come on one I flip to the other. Its the same with the national news media. Once they get your money they could give a fuck if you even exist (until the next bill is due)! 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. But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. the average 1 hour show has 17-18 minutes of advertisements. I always mute them, I will come back into the room just to mute them. time slot to show 1.5/1.75 hour movie . commercials were not supposed to be on cable when it came to our area, thats why you are paying for cable thats what we were told, now we pay high rates and the commercials have never stopped increasing in the amount of time they have taken up per hour. It was cheaper for CNN to just go back to Martin about every 7 minutes than it was to actually send a news crew out on a story to investigate facts. Especially, during General Hospital. Guess the last laugh is really on them. I too have never nor will I ever purchase any product that interrupts a show Im watching with their stupid advertising. On the TV guide will be 5 or more channels sheerly for products being sold. FoxNews is one of the worse. Soon I transfer my washer load into the dryer while I sweep the kitchen and dining room. He further said out of ten heavily advertised drugs four to five would cause major medical issues and the company would more than likely know they were a problem drug, hide the data and sell it anyway. Watching the View, Dr. Phil, the news and many most other shows especially Y & R go way beyond the allowed limit, is anyone watching? So I checked what was happening by turning the same show on through Comcast online through the computer, and could see the 10-30 seconds of the show that was missing as presented on the On Demand through the cable. I have noticed a great increase in commercialson TNT morning shows and they are all the same old ones. television shows. The content lasting 15 seconds followed by 2.3 to 3.1 minutes of commercials. CNN has a quality second to none in its content and news reporting There is no doubt about that. Ridiculous!! One thing that Ive noticed over the last couple of years is that more and more cable networks are offsetting the start times for many shows. A year ago or so I was watching Star Wars on a cable channel and I counted about 6 minutes of ads for every 5 minutes of movie. The world of business is, in general, a very pathetic comment on the human state. Even if a dvr or fast forward is used, the actual story of the show has been cut. But maybe they had a good idea by eliminating the commercials. Soon my show is nearly over and I still have six commercials left to start supper! I like watching TV. I am getting rid of the cable contract. I still have time to pour myself a cup of coffee. I usually go to the kitchen to make my sandwiches. Stop or sign up for some online service. You would think that I should be entitled to watch commercial free movies. Sitcoms, minus the commercials, are typically 22 minutes long. We are not getting the product, for which were paying for. Yes, we have optionsshut the box off! I wondering how much of the show Im really seeing. Its just that, since we got cable TV, I only wash dishes during commercials. I only noticed it because some of the shows I was watching seemed to be going unusually ABRUPTLY from show to commercial. If you would like to see American capitalism at its very, very worst just watch The Evening News, and observe the difference in how much less news you get to watch during the last fifteen minutes as compared to the first fifteen minutes due to the immense amount of advertising thrown in (on the average somewhere around four to five minutes of news, the rest advertisements!) Things have got change , I pay to much for cable to be watching all these commercials. our shows.. Stop watching TV or rent movies. PULL THE PLUG!! If it's a show on a non bbc channel, then a Hit them in their bank account. 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. As soon as a commercial comes on, most of which are about side effects from prescription medicine, I mute it and catch up on my reading or do small chores. And no I am not 13 I am 14. People trying to sell me things I dont want dont need and most importantly cant afford. CNN devotes up to 12 commercial in its quick breaks. Yes, there is way too many commercials on regular tv! 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. As soon the commercial comes on; I switch my tvs input to HDMI and block them out. So now LETS ALL SPREAD THE WORD AND SHOW OUR UNITED POWER BY BEGINNING THE BOYCOTT OF CABLE TV THIS COMING THURSDAY OF JULY 1ST TO HELP SHOW THOSE JUST HOW SERIOUS AND DISSATISFIED WE THE PAYING PUBLIC HAVE BECOME AND HOW FIRM WE STAND AND PLAN TO MAKE OURSELVES HEARD ON THIS NEXT UPCOMING INDEPENDENCE DAY!!! Just shut the box off. CUT & PASTE THIS MESSAGE AND KEEP PASSING IT ON!! But truth be told, customer satisfaction is no longer a meaningful factor. Every time I see that pillow commercial I yell out Take your pillow and shove it up your ass. Think about it. Having recently relocated, I cut the cord and record programs I want to see to a PC via a gadget I bought on eBay, watch the program without the commercials, then delete the file after viewing. An ad for donations for contraception medications or products would be a more logical plea for struggling populations not money to feed abandoned and unwanted children. I am tired of all the feminine and hygiene products such as, tampon, bra, panty and the other commercials. WebFor the 22 minute comedy sitcoms, they're usually structured to have 2 acts. Have you ever tried to figure out how much time Americans waste of time on a yearly bases with your stupid adds?? Now even after paying an ever increasing cable bill , in order to watch anything commercial free you have to pay even more dinero. Unless until the catch on and make the who show the same as the last 15 minutes 1 content time to 11 commercials content time. ASPCA LIES. Try it. Pretty much the only thing I watch live anymore is the NFL, but even with that, Ive now started dvring the games, and watching immediately after the game ends, so I can skip all the commercials.. Whats worse is they play the same commercial several times a slot! You know, the ones youre paying for as part of your cable subscription? However, we did Cut The Cable and revert to Digital antennae, Or Free TV, or Poor TV, as we call it LOL. I canceled cable last year and have Hulu Netflix and amazon. r uou with me on this ??? I cut the cord a year ago, in part because of the commercial load. account for about 50% of all commercials. They show more and more commercials, I watch less and less TV. The number of commercials has increased to the point where its no longer possible to follow, no less watch They have done a very good job at alienating viewers now by LOADING the broadcast with commercial interruptions. If the 13-minute figure was accurate I would only see a commercial when I turn the TV on once in four times. I watched an hour of ABC last evening and the 10 (count em) ads came on every 10 minutes! So cable gets paid from us and through commercials, and nobody is getting off cheap! there is way to many commerices on GH NOT ENOUGH OF THE SOAP SHOW I BEEN WATCHING THIS SOAP SINCE IT STARTED ON TV A LONG TIME LOUISE I WANT TO SEE IT ON FOR 2 HOURS EVERY DAY LESS COMMERICES AND LIKE TO SEE THEM ALL SING OUT THE SHOW THAT WAS SO GREAT AND WANT TO SEE LUKE BACK AND SCORPIE BACK THANKYOU. I do stream Netflix and Hulu along with Amazon as I have a Prime membership. A survey among media buying agencies showed that a 30 second TV ad during the broadcast of '60 Minutes' during the 2020/21 season cost around 130 NetFlix/Hulu/Etc are it. Only then will they experience 1/100 of the misery the rest of us go through. Just watched E channel. Its no secret. That makes the amount of adverts par hour at 9 minutes. Streaming services are similar to what cable used to in the beginning. I have recently started a website, the info you provide on this site has helped me greatly. What a shame that these greedy TV morons cant fix the aggravating problem. I just complain to Direct TV.. but there all laughing at us. Just stopped watching MSNBC. Cant get much worse! The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. Im just waiting until wireless internet gets up to speed and bye-bye Comcast altogether. SOMETHING IS GOING TO CHANGE VERY SOON. They initially had one commercial every 15 minutes so 4 in an hour show. I question the value of CNNs news reporting, which usually puts the same handful of toothless stories on endless cycle and frames them with blocks of advertising. Because of all the commercials I cut my cable subscription to just basic and purchased a roku stick. Thanks for all of your time & work. I mute all commercials, and if I do see an advertiser on way more than others, I never buy their product. How much of your future retirement money are you willingly giving to advertisers? ALSO, since Im typing in this box and TRYING TO READ what Ive wrote I CANT SEE IT!!! 50 minutes of musice and then 10 of comercials . a marketing resource.. Plus, it chaps my hide that I have to pay for something and still have to endure 30-50% ads. 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. Her accent is as grating as the commercial breaks. I cant watch commercial tv anymore. I have a method to this madness, I watch these stations and flip during the commercials: ABC News, CNN News, and HLN News. pharmaceutical, insurance and automobile are the worst With pharmaceutical being number one. Everone should know how much their time is worth per hour. Day before I dropped cable counted 18 stations playing same show all day long. This is so bad we all must demand less commercials per hour. They are just using their collected info to do smarter targeted ads. 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