In Duncan B.C. Because i dont care how addicted you are to TV, the way this is going is pushing me away from the ordeal of it, and I know I cant be the only one. Why should Brother printers bother with TV ads when they know Epson has already ruined the printer market for anything but business use, so they buy ads in tech oriented fields and minimize costs and by doing so, they are not hated by the general public for running nonstop ads elsewhere that wont increase sales anyway. I simply cant sit through a half hour sitcom for example, and watch 10-11 minutes of commercials. You cannot watch more than 6 minutes of content before you get 5 min and 15 commercials. So the two join forces and overwhelm us with their messages. COAL TELEVISION COMMERCIAL: You're looking at the most abundant fuel in our country. NO COMMERCIALS NEEDED. Few if any commercials because that is what the monthly fee was for and there would be no need for commercials. That man is beyond handsome and bordering pretty. Morning Joe is the worse. MARTIN SMITH: [ voice-over ] In the summer of 2007, America's coal companies, railroads and utilities launched . Even if a dvr or fast forward is used, the actual story of the show has been cut. Love the analysis. UNTIL, we Boycott TV all together. Really? If Im interested in watching something, I simply wait for it to come out on dvd, and watch it that way. Tune in to CNN and imeadiatly set the pause button. yes, the repeating of the same headlines is quite annoying. in a few more years the television industry with pass into history. Im sure the shows back then were at least 50-53 minutes long. Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World, Broad agreement in U.S. even among partisans on which news outlets are part of the mainstream media, How Americans Navigated the News in 2020: A Tumultuous Year in Review, Many Americans are unsure whether sources of news do their own reporting, Americans Paid Close Attention as Election Returns Came In, Coronavirus-Driven Downturn Hits Newspapers Hard as TV News Thrives, Americans main sources for political news vary by party and age, U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided. I also pay for YouTube premium to avoid commercials. I m just sick of paying for dish cable ads where are the t.v. Now look at you tube, talk about commercial driven they are the example for others to mimick, but of course people put up with it and that sends the message that its OK to do whatever companies want and make gazillions off you. SOMETHING IS GOING TO CHANGE VERY SOON. What bothers me most is that a number of networks edit as much as 15 minutes from a movie to steal the time for advertising! AARP is as corrupt as the many lying charity pharma & lying AARP adsthe money AARP spends on its massive ad campaign is almost criminal! having worked in the advertising business for a number of years, I can tell you that your conclusions are on the right track. In a site I was at before coming here, Comcast, NBC, and MSNBC are suing Dish Network for use of the auto skip ad function their newest DVRs. Price was getting out of hand and there was new under the sun. Read our research on: Congress | Economy | Black Americans. Hell, just a few years ago FX ran LOTR Two Towers, a special 2 night airing: 2 nights in a row, 4hrs each night, EIGHT HOURS to air a 3hr movie. OK we all HATE commercials but what can we do about it? However, excessive commercials take away a lot from programs I enjoy. To many commercials.across the board no matter what channel you are watching. Day before I dropped cable counted 18 stations playing same show all day long. 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. The wash is started and I make my beds during the next commercials. I use my TVs blue blanker and lightning fast reflexes to blank out commercials and they are fast to switch from the show right to the commercial. This makes both sad and scary reading to me A sign of the times.. We have had a DVR for 10 years or so. So Im glad these commercials breaks are growing and seeming to drag on more and more, like pushers trying to force products down your throat. Tonight I timed the last 15 minutes of the ABC nightly news. Better yet watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or any of the other pay services. Back to my soap opera! They have become like mini-films, It does say something about our health, and our health care system, Your audit of commercials ranks up there with my counting bricks. Same as the Toll Bridge myth. This is pathetic and we are paying for it! And for those of you willing to cross to the dark side, theres Kodi. Watch PBS, commercial free and you get actual news and not what a pundit thinks. and part of that five minutes is giving a preview of whats coming up later in the broadcast. Really!! Based upon this research, it seems apparent to me that the news makes people sick. it`s funny. This news program lies to hurt President Trump, Republicans, and conservatives. I spend my spare time with YouTube now. The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. 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!!!!!!!!!! Its called Infomercial TV. So in terms of stand-alone campaign stories this year, it's been 234 minutes for Trump, compared to 10 minutes for Sanders. Im just waiting until wireless internet gets up to speed and bye-bye Comcast altogether. I also noted that it seems the commercials are likely targeting people who have access to doctors and drugs, which I assume tends to skew a bit older. The next episode starts at 3:42PM and ends at 4:12PM. Candid, open and at times angry, the former presidential candidate talks about what went wrong and her fears for the . I record a lot of the time ! In an hour of scripted television shows such as dramas and sitcoms, commercials take up 6 minutes, according MarketingCharts. I am sorry if I have caused any offence. Last thought, although I continue to be heterosexual, if I ever decided to change teams, it would be because of David Muir. As soon as I find another internet provider I will be done with DISH. Agreed theres an app and drug for virtually everything. the new study on olive oil and alzheimer's and olive oil and your heart. Im sure both the ads and the shows such cool stuff would be associated arent nearly as depressing as the news and its commercials. Senators/Representatives?. ABC World News Tonight provides viewers the latest news and analysis of major events from around the . Whats cool about YouTubeTV is that you can record any program you like and just skip through the commercials as if you were using your old DVR that Comcast up-charged you for. It is currently the most watched network newscast in the United States, with an average of 2 million more . Majority aimed at senior citizens cheaply produced forms of insurance. Now it is almost 50%. Fox News among others obviously doesnt care how bad they are pissing off the viewers with outlandish commercial time vs programming! Absolute bullshit. I never realised how much utter nonsense was on tv. 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?) Helen -you are ingenious! FoxNews is one of the worse. How do I block your stupid add programs??? But the real problem is advertisements ,yes Its big money for someone So just what does They are just using their collected info to do smarter targeted ads. Ridiculous!! DVR or renting a movie is the best option time-wise. Zimadude. ABC saw a 22% increase in 2020, while CBS and NBC each saw an 8% increase. Additionally, I find that very often, time is cut from the movie or program to make space for even more commercials! I told my family and friends its time to shut it all down and watch C.D.s I have 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. a win-win for the tv news business. I have RA and it costs 10,000 a month. That makes the amount of adverts par hour at 9 minutes. And this: In 2016, the U.S. spent $3,337 billion, or 17.9 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). The Boomers are an aging tribe. Financially, advertiser expenditure for the news programs of the three major networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) has been steady in recent years. Anyway, all these ads are expensive. I often wonder if, because of the unending stream of side effects, if this is actually a bit of disclaimers as well as promoting drug seeking activity. As yet they have not choreographed their commercials to run concurrently which I find to be a blessing. PULL THE PLUG!! "Another night of consequential news," said ABC's "World News Tonight" anchor, during his litany of the latest pandemic headlines that opened his broadcast Wednesday evening: "The. At 6:49 PM the program went to commercial. The three networks advertiser expenditures for the morning news programs each remained steady in 2020, though CBS and NBC saw increases in 2019 (12% and 7%, respectively). 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. I noticed that a long time ago. The 16 to 18 commercials that followed were 15 to 75 seconds long and most of them were for health-care products and services. Who is the DIM-WHIT that expects us to see light gray text on white? If released more timely and news team just slowed it down a touch, this could be the best news podcast/sound bite in the US. I suppose it depends on what kind of sandwich youre making. 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. But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. Stream ABC World News Tonight Episodes on Sling TV Sling TV Orange is $20/month. I guess my wife and I are getting old. I also get the names of the drugs confused and what exactly each one is for. Cut. I know Im in the minority; I actually dont mind the commercials, unless Im in a hurry to get through a show weve recorded. I do NOT have a personal relationship with my insurer (geico lizards be damned). Actuality. All fluff. Network TV news appointment viewing for many Americans saw its audience increase somewhat across networks in 2020. Took about a month, but it really did work. This situation has grown steadily worse every month and year. Do they think their veiwers are morons with large wallets? Its been WAY out of control for far too long. people are trapped in their homes and worried about what is going on. I watch General Hospital at 2 PM EST. Medicare Advantage, Sling TV are you ready now?, Disney/ABCs THE VIEW is 34 minutes (not hourlong as proported); then they have 6 minutes inside the program (a la QVC or HSN) dedicated to View Your Deal peddling more products. Im fed up with interruptions in flow of programs with sooo many commercials, soIm recording and watching 1hour later fast fwd thru commercials or the next day. Then it goes to about every 9 or 10 and then during the last 30 minutes it is every 4 minutes. 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? It is amazing how many drug commercials are on TV says something about our health and our health care system. This allows us to fast forward through the ads. pharmaceutical, insurance and automobile are the worst With pharmaceutical being number one. Yes thats so right! I cannot tolerate one 5 second news story then 6-7 commercials; especially in the last half of a 28 minute news program. Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. Mainly because of the time allotted for commercials. they dont spend without knowing the demos and numbers. If you watch a movie look up how long the movie is then look on the cable listing on how long its time slot is and youll see that up to 35% of the time is commercials not worth watching it really is getting bad. 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. Why cant all advertising be put on a special advertising channel and not on regular tv? Do many of the drug names sound the same? Three letters P B S !!! I am almost off my blood pressure meds. The IRS doesnt have commercials. That very first soap ad on TV eons ago screwed us. If you back out the time for teases thats even less time of actual news. Not the bottom 90%. It is a sad indictment on our health and our health care system. What adds insult to injury is that my cable company wants me to pay for television channels that are riddled with commercials. They show a lot of old 80s and 90s sitcoms on Saturday and Sundays. Last year I started to watch football games with the remote nearby or in my hand so I could mute all the commercials. or because they file a claim. Yep, I cant watch the Golf Channel live any more. TvLand is the worst. Not long ago I used a stopwatch to time the actual show time for Everybody Loves Raymond .. the episode airs for 36 minutes, but only NINE MINUTES were the show, the other TWENTY SEVEN MINUTES were commercials. Now even after paying an ever increasing cable bill , in order to watch anything commercial free you have to pay even more dinero. Have been watching over the air channels for a year because cable is a rip off. 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. And the redundant teasing of a six word News headline, as another reader mentioned-is so darn annoying. 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. It got to the point and was so frustrating by when they actually showed what the preview was it was basically the exact same thing as the preview was, with just a few seconds extra. So it's taken me about half an hour to 45 minutes longer than usual," Copeland said. In fact, I used to wait for the end of each season, and buy each one individually, but now wait for the SERIES to conclude, wait for the inevitable Complete Series release, and watch it then. my dad told me that there was an FCC regulation on how many commercials could be shown at one time. How to really enjoy CNN as a male news junkie. Because we put up with it ? I gave up on cable 4 years ago. So once it was over I decided to watch it again, and write down how many commercials there were, how long each one aired, and what the commercial was for. Commercials have been a bane of mine for quite some time. 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. , This insane amount of drug commercials can make you feel sick. But now I always have my remote in my hand. 50 minutes of musice and then 10 of comercials . Now end credits are zapped SO FAST one cannot see who did what or who was who on the screen. 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. The greed of TV networks has overrun our program viewing. On Location: February 24, 2023. Kick your cable TV to the curb. If you arent watching their every move they takes advantage of you. My Doctor friend told me while eating lunch that if a drug was heavily advertised a patient should never, never ever take it. One more thing I noticed was the posts tend to be written by older people, mostly women. Flood the FTC with complaints about this issue. 60 second ASPCA ads (God I hate this commercial with a passion), Shriners hosital, and ads for various lawyers, government insurance programs, bottom shelf insurance companies, and life alert programs. Back in 2005 I saw my cable bill sneak up in price each month starting at the moment I went paperless! But maybe they had a good idea by eliminating the commercials. Ha! Every time I see the POTUS, I expect it will the first time for there to be some trash corporate logo on the presidential lectern. I no longer watch them unless desperate. Is your bathroom closer to the TV? 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. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. BENNINGTON A Massachusetts man convicted last July of sexually assaulting a minor after climbing into her window with a deadly weapon was handed a five-years-to-life prison sentence in a Bennington courthouse Tuesday. 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!!! You cant channel surf anymore, all the channels are on commercial breaks. In other words, they expand the viewing time by almost half for your commercial enjoyment. DVRing and then replaying shows has the same effect as if all watching viewed the commercials. I cut the cord in August, 2009 and have never missed it. It does absolutely NO GOOD to gripe about TV ads on forums like this one. Complete waste of news time. Doing this makes me even madder knowing that these folk lie to their advertisers about live viewer numbers. Ive been irritated by the ratio of commercials to actual news for quite some time now & happy to see Im not the only one. Its because Disney owns all the channels. I have never switched products on the word of some paid celebrity. Im sure its much, much higher, as in up in the thousands. 2 minutes later, at 6:51, the ad break ended. Regarding Netlfix There are plenty of good shows to watch and as long as you dont binge watch them you dont have to worry about running out of stuff, although there search feature is crap and can be hard to find new good shows, they are there somewhere lurking and if you get lucky you can spot one lol. On ABC news, there is more time spent on commercials, than actual news. Im jealous of your time spent in advertising, its always seemed like a fascinating field. No telling how long the news will actually last. Too many channels, too many commercials is killing tv. The. The most-watched episode in all of television last week was Tuesday evening's World News Tonight, which delivered a total audience of 11.23 million viewers, two to three times the audience of. I was trying to find out about tv shows back in the 60s & 70s & cant seem to find an answer. True Roy. ASPCA LIES. So if you truly cherish your time and how it is being spent, and if you feel strongly enough to no longer be a contributor to this open and defiant display of corporate greed that has gone completely out of control then pass on the date for a nationwide boycott where everyone will choose the same date on their calendar when they will call their cable company and disconnect. We are not getting the product, for which were paying for. Owned stations had already been airing repeats of "World News Tonight" early in the morning as well, similar to what both CBS and NBC do on . 1876 hours 2 minutes and 52 seconds. 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. And no I am not 13 I am 14. I understand we need them (or at least the stations do), But 41 in an hour.. Thats pathetic.. Ilikebigbboob@gmail.com You'll have 30+ channels including AMC, A&E, CNN, TBS, ESPN, TNT, and many other channels. Im also in development of a product that auto-mutes commercials, as the existing products out there that auto-mute dont work for long. We go to the least expensive product that has the safest ingredients. Great post, Jim! your lives will come back. Because of all the commercials I cut my cable subscription to just basic and purchased a roku stick. For profit, pro-corporate news will never deliver anything approaching the truth. Only drawbacks are the learning curve and sometimes erratic streams which are likely caused by shitty Armstrong cable. When it comes to commercial advertisements, I simply fast forward them. When I was a kiddo news-junkie in the 60s, networks did not saturate their news programs with commercials. It seems the ad companies and those pushing their products dont grasp the principal of diminishing returns. My hunch is that the 13-minute figure is way low! Early TV credits had me scratching my head. How many years of the rest of your life do you want to devote to advertisers? thats for sure. An entirely new business model is needed for TV. Laws that regulate this must be enforced or made. Here in the UK ,sat least we have some half dozen channels from the BBC with no commercials ,worth the 200 dollars yearly mandatory fee, all the hundreds of channels here are full of commercials,ads as we call them here,drive you mad . 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