Too many Commercials!!... Stop It!!
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I see them on the locals via Dish as well, and even more questionable ads after 11pm on locals and non-locals...
Too Many Commercials
Commercial ads are getting very annoying. I have counted the commercials at the breaks and the average is 9 per break. Sometimes they go as high as 15. If they have these commercials because we aren't paying to watch TV, then why do we have to PAY for cable tv? If it didn't cost so much to produce the shows, they wouldn't need as many commercials to pay for the right to air them. No offense, but I don't think the actors are worth that much that they have to be paid thousands or even millions of dollars per episode.
It doesn't help to change channels when all the channels have the commercials on at the same time. So the world is becoming one big commercial. And what's up with these flipping infomercials. We not only are subject to minutes on end on our regular programming, now we have hours on end of infomercials.
Commercial ads are getting very annoying. I have counted the commercials at the breaks and the average is 9 per break. Sometimes they go as high as 15. If they have these commercials because we aren't paying to watch TV, then why do we have to PAY for cable tv? If it didn't cost so much to produce the shows, they wouldn't need as many commercials to pay for the right to air them. No offense, but I don't think the actors are worth that much that they have to be paid thousands or even millions of dollars per episode.
It doesn't help to change channels when all the channels have the commercials on at the same time. So the world is becoming one big commercial. And what's up with these flipping infomercials. We not only are subject to minutes on end on our regular programming, now we have hours on end of infomercials.
And hence we have more reality tv shows (which I mostly detest) because they're cheap to produce and therefore the profit margin on the ad rates are higher. I don't like commercials, but I really can't tolerate reality tv shows...
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About the only thing I don't record so I can zip the ads would be a small amount of sports. Then again, some of the ads are so funny that you sometimes forget just what was advertised. You have to admit that laughing bunny when he saw the snake with the baby rattle on its tail had to be the number one ad of this past year! I never got tired of that one.
Been waiting for reality shows to die for years. Same goes for social networking sites, but it just seems people cannot get enough of either.
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This is the third time that this thread has been resurected. Get an DVR and get over it. I even record football games and wait until they have been on an hour and watchd the game in two or less hours. If I skipped all the replays of the same replays, I could watch a football game in 30 minutes. WOW, I just saved 2 and 1/2 hours. Now what do I watch with all the spare time. I NEVER watch live TV.
Why is this thread in the Dish forum?? The same commercials must be shown by other providers too...
Yeah...the reality shows are really hurting scripted shows... Social networking is a big thing for a lot of people...I'm not one of them. I only come here.
- In the 1960's - 1970's - TV Commericials averaged 3 minutes 4-times per hour; - total 12 minutes per hour, except on Specials important events. - Now what?! 20-32 minutes per hour of Crap commercials. We already pay for TV, so commercials should Not be more than 12 minutes per hour. - We need a U.S. Congress Bill to end these $rip-off Crap crap. Where to start a Petition?
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Don't worry about this, herbalist. Are you by any chance using tapatalk?
While I haven't done a precise measurement, a 1 hour TV series today runs about 40 minutes leaving 20 minutes for commercials, and some commercial breaks are as long as 5 minutes. Consider TV in the 50's and into the 60's where a 1 hour program generally ran over 50 minutes and commercial breaks were limited to around 4 minutes per half hour, and in some case even less.
Anyway, I found the sheer number of commercials to be intolerable so using "Superman & Lois" as an example, I never watch it real time. I always record it so I can skip through the commercials. Then I can watch each 1 hour episode in around 40 minutes. My wife used to do the same thing with "Desperate Housewives", another 40 minute show expanded to 1 hour to accommodate their incessant commercials.
Anyway, I found the sheer number of commercials to be intolerable so using "Superman & Lois" as an example, I never watch it real time. I always record it so I can skip through the commercials. Then I can watch each 1 hour episode in around 40 minutes. My wife used to do the same thing with "Desperate Housewives", another 40 minute show expanded to 1 hour to accommodate their incessant commercials.
Hah. I was wondering why I didn't recognize any those commenting on this thread until post 20.
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And I'd rather have commercials than have my tax dollars go to PBS and NPR. And this has NOTHING to do with their politics. I simply believe that ANY and EVERY TV and radio station can live off the free market. We all have something that we can gripe about. Pick your poison.
I've noticed some TV channels starting a show 5-10 minutes before the hour so that they can put in even more commercials during the hour. Weekends are even worse as they figure more eyes are watching...
I disagree. I believe that half of the stations we have now would not succeed if they had to compete in a free market. The fact is that most stations have a protected market.
Whether they can succeed or not is up to the station, but just to guarantee that they survive is not a good enough reason for tax dollars to fund them.
The only protections other stations have are some FCC regulations. PBS and NPR however are publicly funded. I watch PBS sometimes and I still don't think it should be publicly funded. If that means putting in commercials so that they are no longer taxpayer funded, I say go ahead.
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