Im tired of being brainwashed with all the stupidity of the ads being shown. Anyway, viewers are beginning to revolt by not watching! Morning Joe is the worse. 13 commercials in a row on cbs channel 4 on Wednesday 10/13/21. Only then will they experience 1/100 of the misery the rest of us go through. I either watch DVDs or stream commercial free from Netflix or Hulu. Some of the crew had their name and job listed. Thats the only thing they understand. 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. Either lower the amount of COMMERCIALS to no more than 25% or have them send your TV Bill to the Networks. They dont see people they see $ sign, Online streaming services surpassed television. Do not buy from their sponsors and maybe they will back off on some of this crap. When I was a kiddo news-junkie in the 60s, networks did not saturate their news programs with commercials. Is your bathroom closer to the TV? I DVR EVERYTHING! Most people simply live with it, of course. I have been researching, all I really wanted was the History Channel and the news but they cut the better of the history channels!!! Thats the good old american way. 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! Only way to avoid ads is via Amazon Prime or similar subscriptions. Detroit local channel, 2.5 hr. I wonder if David Muir knows how truly annoying his show is to people. I was watching a show the other night and decided to count the commercials.. If you think tv is that bad and dont like it that much then why dont you just stop watching it? Sorry but nothing short of a massive Television boycott is going to get any decision makers attention.. One of these days a Network will realize that if they establish standards and reject commercials with yelling, screaming, and other obnoxious audio, their Nielsen ratings would increase. our dose of corporate vomit (adverts) has been slashed significantly. I record all the shows I want to watch so that I can fast forward commercials. TV and if I see a commercial promoting anything, I dont buy that product. 1995 Dollars. The commercial breaks are like every 5 minutes! OXYGEN CHANNEL IS THE WORST- ABSOLUTE WORST PROGRAMMING TOO!! There is no escape. TvLand is the worst. However, CBS This Morning has so many commercials, I have to hold the remote in my hand! I video taped most of the TV movies; sports and news. OK we all HATE commercials but what can we do about it? Funny because I have recently noticed that the commercials are growing there too. In these approximately Yes. 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 seem to recall that Saint Ronald Reagan deregulated, along with much else, the maximum commercial time on television. I was trying to find out about tv shows back in the 60s & 70s & cant seem to find an answer. Really? No and now Frontier has added a fast forward rejection for commercials. Once, I timed a 30-minute local newscast: 12 minutes of commercials!! Or at least a large percentage of the equity. Took about a month, but it really did work. The Liberty Insurance ads are on at least 200 times a day. Copyright 2018 Dexter Canfield Media Inc. Fox News Shuffles Its Lineup as Anchor Takes Time Off, ABC Revamps Prime Time, Takes Wraps Off 2014-15 Schedule Featuring 12 New Shows. Meanwhile, on broadcast, Fox Hey Im for that, I pay $177.00 a month to Spectrum for cable and internet, but Im getting to the end of my rope switching channels to avoid commercials. 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. 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. Tonight I timed the last 15 minutes of the ABC nightly news. The next commercial is in four minutes; I set up my vacuum and pick up newspapers and shoes that are cluttering the floor. All these advertising scumbags should have razor cuts all over their bodies then drenched in alcohol. 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!) I too refuse to buy anything theyre selling 1:15 document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); TVWeeks 2019 Media Buyer of the Year Philip McKeon, Former Child Actor, Dead at 55 Business Is Booming for One Veteran Media Exec and He Was Just Named Time Magazines Businessperson of the Year Three New Stars Join Cast. Thirteen minutes per hour? NBCU sits at the bottom, with 11.1. If that is still the case most of the channels are not following that. You and all other TV program distributors odd to be ashamed of yourselves, but most likely it is an ability you dont have. 3- I would imagine buying a new TV will not be a priority for most people. i remember those great days when commercials were regulated by law. That way I can select what to watch,or, delete the programs entirely. Our days now dont have enough hours in them. It seems the ad companies and those pushing their products dont grasp the principal of diminishing returns. That set the template for everything that has happened since then, and somehow people have forgotten it. Thanks for listening. (Other services) 1.1.2(B) (a) The total amount of spot advertising in any one day must not exceed an average of nine minutes per hour (15 per cent) of broadcasting. In this insanely capitalistic nation, meaningful legislation to ease this torture is highly unlikely. Senators/Representatives? This is so bad we all must demand less commercials per hour. 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. You would think that I should be entitled to watch commercial free movies. A commercial every 3 to 4 minutes. I get so sick and tired of seeing nothing but commercials that I promised myself that I would not buy ANYTHING that was advertised by these stations. The most aggravating offender was when I had Hulu, which produces their own really stupid ads and then charges you if you want an ad-free subscription add-on (which only eliminates their ads). I could be interested in watching them but stopped watching. Ive cut the cord and now pay much less for far superior, ad-free content than I used to pay for 200+ channels of absolute crap punctuated by mind-numbing commercial messages. 90% of funds go into execs pockets, almost NOTHING goes to benefit the cause the charity was created to help. How many years of the rest of your life do you want to devote to advertisers? Week after week same thing its so stupid and the same ones over and over on the same Show! Please help us! We will only have just so many days, so many hours and only so many minutes. Anyway, all these ads are expensive. Ive taken to muting commercials. I am 69 years old and handicapped, my only entertainment is television..well, I can only hope the greedy corporate heads will have nothing but commercials run thru their heads as they try to sleep plus end up with television as their only source of entertainment because of the same health issues I have. Really!! Last year I pretty much gave up on TV. Yep, I cant watch the Golf Channel live any more. WebIn the USA, the average amount of commercial time is a little over 1/4 of the air time. 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. And we get more commercial ads then ever. It means they can block out real news (and have smaller staffs) and kill-off an hour time block that was formerly occupied by real news. 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 would like to see another channel like abc or nbc challenge cbs by running less ads and see what kind of viewing public they get. I am almost off my blood pressure meds. True Roy. The greed of TV networks has overrun our program viewing. I have 30 second jump on my remote. 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. If the 13-minute figure was accurate I would only see a commercial when I turn the TV on once in four times. Cut the cable, put up an antenna, and add a streaming service. News 40-60 seconds news then cut to 4 minutes of ads. 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. Happy profits and goodbye! Now they get 4 commercials for the same price. "The increased number of commercials has translated to more money flowing into television. GET A GRIP ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS AND TV CHANNELSWE DO NOT WANT TO SEE SO DARN MANY COMMERCIALSPERIOD! I still have time to pour myself a cup of coffee. I turn off the sound and get up and do something around the house during the times (at the end of the hour) when there are the most commercials between shows. Fox News among others obviously doesnt care how bad they are pissing off the viewers with outlandish commercial time vs programming! I was watching a 1951 episode of the Adventures of Superman..guess how long the actual run time was..28.50 minutes exactly. WebEach commercial break is usually a story act break. By spending so much on ads, they have in essence bought the media. Our local SF Bay Area news programs are horrid. I have read 191 comments regarding the disgust of At least they play some music just before the breaks to warn me theyre coming. I only use the TV for DVD movies where I can fast forward over the name promoting actors, director, etc. For kicks, I time the length of commercial and length of program. Netflix & Acorn as my streaming shows. Even sports broadcasts are unwatchable due to the sheer volume of ads shoved at the viewer. With Medicare enrollment going on right now its constant all day, it is sickening and unnecessary. It is true that he advertising pays for the program. CNN has a quality second to none in its content and news reporting There is no doubt about that. 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. Yes, there is way too many commercials on regular tv! Doesnt seem that way anymore!!! Not the bottom 90%. Do they think the cable providers care if you are watching? More time spent on ads than on the story itself. It helps to see like-minded people as fed up with the frequency and excessive amount of stupid, inane ads as I. Each page equals about a minute of screen time and script lengths usually fall between 53-60 pages. Thank goodness for tv remote mute button! I, agree with all these other vewers about commercials being out of control. So sick of the same stupid commercials on the comedy network Nobody does it better. The opening comment is bull shit 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. Its the same with the national news media. 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!). I spend my spare time with YouTube now. For profit, pro-corporate news will never deliver anything approaching the truth. Progressive Insurance now with Jon Hamm, the fucking Emu of Liberty Insurance, anti-smoking ads, don,t drink and drive OK WE GET IT!, Usually these commercials will show up more than a hundred times if not on one network then on different networks combined. Frankly, Im tired of the Ford, Dodge, Chevy, Nissan, Toyota and Subaru commercials, as well as the Budweiser with its loud obnoxious screaming music. How long before Hulu add increase to equal cable or ota tv? Eight minutes of movie to nine minutes of ads I timed it! I do not have a DVR, but I do have start-over with my cable box. I find traditional cable simply unwatchable bad shows loaded with ads and it offends me that cable companies charge a premium for access to this garbage. and no way to delete it. ABCs evening news will rush through their stories to give you the pharmaceutical commercials which are longer than any story segment. So we take that even further and do not buy products advertised on TV, we feel if its heavily advertised the product is over priced. I am a senior who is furious with the many. I watch up to 4 programs at a time to avoid all the commercials. The commercials are horribly produced for the most part. Its horrible and disgusting. On discovery for example I may have to try watch same aired episode 3-4 times to see entire program just due to seeing same medicare commercial every 4 minutes. You show you have no respect for your customers. So freaking stupid. Put that money toward your cause and stop making us all feel guilty over stuff we cant really change. This forum has no authority over TV stations, nor their advertisers. Things have got change , I pay to much for cable to be watching all these commercials. And then they tack on equipment rental and a laundry list of other fees. The next commercials are in five minutes, allowing me plenty of time to polish the tables and start my laundry. 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. : Is there any address that I can send my feeling about how many commercials are being played at one time on Satellite TV. I was inspired to come on line here after a deluge of ads on BBC America. I realize that someone has to pay for the freight so why not charge more for commercial time and have fewer of them? I am getting rid of the cable contract. I find that I can usually watch all 3 of the major news channels at once and not miss much of the programming on any of them. So if an episode is 24-26 minutes without comercials then air the epispde in its entirety first then take the remaining 4-6 minutes for comercials and repeat. Bless you and your formula for resisting consumer propaganda. I remember 10 years ago I didnt need a cable box to get HD tv direct to my set. I have timed these commercials, and the number of commercials per one half hour and one hour shows. Well some of them at least. I dont watch any commercials if I had to I would not be able to have TV. PBS there ok until they start asking for money, We the people own the airwaves, and we have every right to specify how many minutes per hour the stations we allow to use our airwaves may devote to commercials No telling how long the news will actually last. Helen -you are ingenious! He then proceeded to gut every other agency that put citizens first and business second. Then the total commercial load is closer to 50%. Really, is that too much to ask? Youre right, Eddie. 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. I cant recommend it highly enough. The advertisers dont realize that people dont switch from their favoriite brand. 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!!!!!!!!!! There are some news stations that literally show a story for 30 seconds, cut to commercials, show another 30 second story and then have more commercials again. Commercial creep was a factor in my decision to dump cable altogether in favor of ad-free streaming services. Im pretty much done with that. Please correct me if I am wrong. HLN will give tidbits of whats to come, and by the time the commercials are done, youve forgotten what you were waiting for. For shorter TV show episodes like Cobra Kai and Naruto, there were three ad breaks: one 30-second spot before the show started and two in the middle that lasted for 60 seconds. On top of that they show the same 3-4 commercials over and over again ON EVERY BREAK. with no gadgets. 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. It was never my intention to offend anyone other than news broadcasters that consider their viewers required 15 or 16 minutes of advertisements during their single hour of veiwing. Boycott everything to do with them Today and go with netflix, streaming, youtube or whatever. I cant watch commercial tv anymore. So 90 minute program equals to 70-75 minutes, and 2 hour program at 84-88 minutes. I think cbs makes way too much money on the ads but I think the owner of CBS knows this and he will never stop because it means more money in his already fat wallet. What kind of ridiculous joke is that? Like all other TV distributors RCN also interrupt their shows every 3-4 minutes with the most stupid unintelligent add programs. *Includes, but not limited to AMC, Chiller, This, IFC, SyFi, TNT, and FX. Whats worse is they play the same commercial several times a slot! Thats truly sad. Tell me why you FUCKS NEED SO MUCH MORE $$$ WHY ALL THE FUCKING commercials. 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. Fight the good fight, tell the Networks and Madison Ave. to piss off! Because of all the commercials I cut my cable subscription to just basic and purchased a roku stick. Youre dumb. There were only 2 1/2 minutes of commercials during the show and one minute between shows (station break). Gone are the days when broadcasters believed they had s commitment to broadcast journalism and covering news from around the world. shows 15 mins of ads 10 mins of shpws and the ads are getting longer..stop with the ads we allneed to stand together and cut cable and t.v. The only shows that should stick to the way they are now are anything live like award shows, sports, live talent shoes where the comercials are to by the performers time to get ready, ect. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Almost all insurance companies ads have animal (and sometimes they are the spokesman). and all of it due to GREED/their need to make as much money as possible!!!!!!!!! Why? As a former radio production engineer, I cannot tolerate the current ratio of commercials to music and have abandoned listening to radio entirely. ", i was watching a cable channel program and there was a commercial break every 6 minutes, makes me want to stop watching tv. However, what Ive found lately is that the commercials seem to be corresponding with each other I cant get a break. 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. I pay a HUGE amount for cable, with no choice of the channels I receive. 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. Thanks for PBS and thanks for recordings. 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. Sure you only had a few premium channels, but the whole idea was to just watch movies. 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. On two of those three networks, the start time for the show is like 3:06PM and ends at 3:36PM. They could run a ten minute news program, and use the rest of the half hour doing commercials, so that people could tend to their business at home, while the commercials are on. Then proceed to the bathroom and complete the three Ss, ending with a shower. The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. 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