And for those of you willing to cross to the dark side, theres Kodi. NetFlix/Hulu/Etc are it. Freedom from commercials was the carrot they offered to switch from broadcast tv cable tv . An entirely new business model is needed for TV. I do stream Netflix and Hulu along with Amazon as I have a Prime membership. We are paying a lot of money for our TV viewing, and feel that customer satisfaction in the most important. I mute all commercials, and if I do see an advertiser on way more than others, I never buy their product. Sure you only had a few premium channels, but the whole idea was to just watch movies. Thats the other reason that it will continue. If half of the time is news would be it. Mainly because of the time allotted for commercials. Things have got change , I pay to much for cable to be watching all these commercials. I gave up on cable 4 years ago. Fox news is just as bad, as in MSNBC. If you need news then use the internet, everyone has phones nowadays and most news channels will live stream free or you can catch the individual clips or read for a change. 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. Some ads can be as long as 2-3 minutes. CNN has a quality second to none in its content and news reporting There is no doubt about that. What their next move? Whew, that felt good to vent, thanks. I watch PBS for the majority of my shows. The ridiculous ratio between commercial time vs. movie time MUST be alienating viewers. Then the total commercial load is closer to 50%. It's always "We'll be right back", and then when it comes back on, he spends 20 sec recapping the last 60-second segment. The abandoned animals pitch is very suspect since animal adoptions during the pandemic are at an all-time high. The Sundance Channel allows me to do start-over and fast forward through the commercials. Its no secret. I DVR a lot of what I watch. After seeing all to the ads here, I now think we could do the same. That is a good plan, Walter. 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 timed a recent episode of Walking Dead with there being a 4 minute commercial break for every 6 minutes of episode, making a total of 24 minutes of commercial in one hour. Nobody does it better. A single episode of a one-hour network TV show typically lasts about 45 minutes, leaving roughly 15 minutes of air time for commercials. But it is so not worth the huge fees. Its the same with the national news media. In some cases they play the same commercials several times in one spot. They said frickin at least 300 times My very biggest gripe is what FEW channels I did have, ABC, CBS, NBC, and especially heartbreaking, as it was my favorite channel, TNT,. Why? Are you really that weak willed? I, agree with all these other vewers about commercials being out of control. I can go the bathroom, make a sandwich, and finish it, and the commercials are still not over. The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. Im proud to say that I dont recognise a single advert on TV when I see one played wherever I might be. 3- I would imagine buying a new TV will not be a priority for most people. Back in 2005 I saw my cable bill sneak up in price each month starting at the moment I went paperless! It is totally stupid to waste money on commercials that are longer than 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.. Best thing we ever did. Well some of them at least. I listen to talk radio and in 1/2 hour there is about 16 minutes of commercials, the olympics on NBC is awful The actual program is about 7 minutes the rest is commercials and Well be right back, In our next segment, See what happens when, Dont go away, you have to see why (so-n-so), Blah-blah and Yada-yada. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. by Alexander Pope. I looked this up and wrote this while waiting for some actual news on CNN. Its rediculus that some commercials last as long as 7 minutes or longer. An average hour of monitored prime-time US network TV programming in Q408 contained seven minutes, 59 seconds (7:59) of in-show brand appearances and 13:52 of network commercial messages, for a combined total of 21:51 of marketing content, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Is your bathroom closer to the TV? Hit them in their bank account. The number came out to 25 minutes of commercials and just over 22 minutes of actual show. Almost all insurance companies ads have animal (and sometimes they are the spokesman). Here in the UK, if a show on the BBC is shown as lasting 30 minutes, it will be that long as there's no advertising there. They show more and more commercials, I watch less and less TV. OK we all HATE commercials but what can we do about it? 1- Many commercials are dumb as a stump at best. In fact the entire ad biz irks me greatly. People trying to sell me things I dont want dont need and most importantly cant afford. and no way to delete it. Yes, I have to agree with you. I would expect that advertisers will only throw so much support behind the rising costs of program licensing and production, so stations/networks need to increase sales opportunities in order to maintain (and/or grow) the return on investment. Since, almost everybody is paying for cable, dish, & satellite; it should be a class action lawsuit , if we are forced to watch more commercials, than the t.v. Thats why I have a dozen old remotes with worn out mute buttons. Could not bear it any longer. In Duncan B.C. I watched Big Sky TV show last week and timed the number of minutes. Ill record and speed thru commercials BUT!!! GMA and other shows are guilty of pouring over 10 minutes of commercials continuously! I just counted 23 commercials in HALF of a half hour show! Its not like there isnt PLENTY of other things to watch in the meantime! So sick of the same stupid commercials on the comedy network my money pay for ?My last Shaw Bill took 21 days to get to my Mail box. The manufacturers of these product want to sell their wares, but to inundate us with all the hype and propaganda about these products, I am seriously considering selling my TV and start doing something else with my time. First half of the show isnt bad but the second half, my God..one report, a commercial, another report, a commercial, another report, a commercial..you see about 5 or 6 commercials in the span of about 10 minutes, its annoying. Really, is that too much to ask? What will it accomplish? A lawyer friend told us same lunch, that those drug companies had help put his children through college, med school and law school. How much does it pay? Oh, I dont get any money. Maybe the liberty guy hopes to get those 2 woman to pull over so he can pork them and cut them up with his unshaven face. A If Im interested in watching something, I simply wait for it to come out on dvd, and watch it that way. Anyway, viewers are beginning to revolt by not watching! Everone should know how much their time is worth per hour. Exceptions to this are overtime periods, which have none. Otherwise I would sit and let the day go by, whilst the Boob Tube sucks at my brain! Spots for 12 other advertisers ran in the break. Yep, I cant watch the Golf Channel live any more. I havent watched commercials in years, since TIVO came out. oversight agencies and they are on a path to kill the golden goose. One more thing I noticed was the posts tend to be written by older people, mostly women. These breaks run Was reading comments and agree with news commercial breaks, they have pay the ridiculous 7 figure salaries of the anchors. I still have time to pour myself a cup of coffee. Absolute bullshit. On two of those three networks, the start time for the show is like 3:06PM and ends at 3:36PM. I just turn off the TV or change channels nothing is so good that you have to put up with that. Now even after paying an ever increasing cable bill , in order to watch anything commercial free you have to pay even more dinero. Im just waiting until wireless internet gets up to speed and bye-bye Comcast altogether. Act 2: All the shit being resolved after the commercial break. If waiters and waitresses live on 15% tips the so can TV advertisers. Otherwise, I just become annoyed, and turn off the TV. I promise you that over 15 minutes of the half hour show was ad time. Their news is factual. 2 minutes of swimming, then 6 minutes of commercials, 45 second of an interview, 5 minutes of commercials-Same thing with gymnastics There are thousands of complaints about the excessive commercials the TV networks are running. I will start keeping a list of advertised merchandise and at least I can refuse to purchase the items interrupting my programs. Rather this boycott will only be effective and send a clear message to all those responsible for the low and poor quality of Television today if we stand united. BOYCOTT YOUR LOCAL CABLE PROVIDER THIS COMING JULY 1ST. 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. And I watched it for a while, just to see that it was STILL cut all to hell to add yet more commercials. I was watching a 1951 episode of the Adventures of Superman..guess how long the actual run time was..28.50 minutes exactly. Yes. Plot out the story lines in your script. 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 would love to cut cable entirely and watch over the air but because of where I live, even with best antenna, I cannot get a signal. I am trying to watch Forensic Files and just when they are getting to a juicy part commercials come on between 5 and 8 at at time. Once they get your money they could give a fuck if you even exist (until the next bill is due)! Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. Thinking you can run and hide from ads is simply foolish, everyone has already pointed this out when they say cable started ad free, yet everyone thinks Hulu and similar devices arent going to follow the same basic idea thats been true on every other platform since video was invented. I remember as a kid when people came to the door asking my parents if they would be interested in cable and they explained all the benefits. And it made me NOT want to buy the products advertised. How much of your future retirement money are you willingly giving to advertisers? WebThe National Football League requires sixteen commercial breaks per game, with eight in each half. Flood the FTC with complaints about this issue. The answer, according to a 2016 report from Bloomberg, is somewhere between 60 and 70. They would be very surprised to see these being young viewers since they have known those people where never part of the cable users base. TvLand is the worst. I usually go to the kitchen to make my sandwiches. TV and if I see a commercial promoting anything, I dont buy that product. I recently got a flyer from a cable company offering some big deal special and when I looked at the channels offered there were only 3 that I would have even considered watching. The Journals analysis found that commercials took up about an hour, or one-third, of the game. Oh, and lets not forget when Martin Savage was run into the ground OVER and OVER again with the guy in the mock-up cockpit of a Boeing 767 to make news stories well after the fact when the airplane went down in the Indian Ocean. 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. 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. If the 13-minute figure was accurate I would only see a commercial when I turn the TV on once in four times. Every week I see a top rated comment in this subreddit where people complain about commercial time. 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!! We overdo everything. 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? Bitching just reinforced the fact that they know you are going to continue your service no matter what they do, they hope to see these posts because youre the base they rely on for their vacations and private movie screenings, events, awards and ceremonies, you keep them in the same rooms with movie stars and other mogulss. Boy, I cant wait for track and field, Just comment on Comcast cable TV- How can any cable station, network or advertiser think that this approach will result in more sales? The first commercial comes in just a couple of minutes. It is true that he advertising pays for the program. We paid to watch TV, not the advertisers. This forum has no authority over TV stations, nor their advertisers. Whats worse is they play the same commercial several times a slot! The practice continues because it works and again, it is a necessary component of the business model. But the thing that I cant understand is the fact that customers think that posting their complaints will actually have any impact on anything. I do maintain a subscription to Sling for sports, but now find it hard to watch even a high profile football game, due to the sheer number of commercials being pushed out. And the best part is. Just finished the second episode of American Crime on ABC, I counted at least 6 minutes of commercials 4 times at least, possibly 5. On the other network with the normal start and end times, Ive noticed scenes from the show that were chopped out in order to insert more commercials! Sick. Dear sirs, I m assuming by your beautifully scripted reply that I do not understand, I may have caused great offence. Put that money toward your cause and stop making us all feel guilty over stuff we cant really change. Manipulative political porn. I watched Lone Survivor on demand on comcast account for about 50% of all commercials. 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. Commercial creep was a factor in my decision to dump cable altogether in favor of ad-free streaming services. i stopped watching tv for over two years now and havent missed it at all !!!!!!!!! Still, I am paying good money for this bull-help is very much needed! There are only two countries that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. 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!!! Soon I transfer my washer load into the dryer while I sweep the kitchen and dining room. FYI my 2014-15 data indicates an average commercial load of 29.54% commercials*. These channels wont keep discriminating audiences for very long at the rate they are going down the road to commercialization. gave me a G-mail Address, they even got that spelled wrong But it worked. I have not watched TV for several years now. 1995 Dollars. I muted, changed channels, recorded and skipped the commercials (which, according to one network dipstick exec, is copyright infringement) which helped somewhat . a marketing resource.. May 13, 2014 Now you need a box so Comcast and like companies can not only control content but quality and up-charge for both. Each page equals about a minute of screen time and script lengths usually fall between 53-60 pages. Now they get 4 commercials for the same price. WebStep 2. I cant watch commercial tv anymore. Here in UK we get 3 minute add break every 12-15 minutes and on BBC, there are no adverts. But now I always have my remote in my hand. 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 I have a method to this madness, I watch these stations and flip during the commercials: ABC News, CNN News, and HLN News. Write and send your complaints to the FCC. The next commercial is in four minutes and that gives me three minutes to run my sweeper and put it away. I close my eyes during the estimated commercial times. ASPCA LIES. No commercials{netflix}, cheaper, limitied choice yes but your not supposed to be watching that much damn tv in the first place. There were only 2 1/2 minutes of commercials during the show and one minute between shows (station break). Old shows that ran 22 minutes per 1/2 hour are so cut up its almost unrecognizable. 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 can no longer pay for TV and have more minutes of advertising than a program I am canceling my Direct TV. Tempted to actually TIME each and send in a complaint. However, ads can also be 10, 20, 40, 50, 60 seconds or longer. I suppose it depends on what kind of sandwich youre making. the average 1 hour show has 17-18 minutes of advertisements. Especially, during General Hospital. These commercials are terrible for news programs because a viewer never gets to know anything about a story because of interruptions. you PAY for cable and they still hit you with a shitload of commercials every 7 minutes. Cord. Please help us! 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. For fun yesterday I counted how many commercials played during break the average is 10 up to 13 that is crazy. Thats when I wash any dishes in the sink. 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