in a few more years the television industry with pass into history. Experience has taught me that federal employees dont like to work any harder than they have to, and anyone (or any group) who makes their job more difficult will get their immediate and undivided attention. GET A GRIP ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS AND TV CHANNELSWE DO NOT WANT TO SEE SO DARN MANY COMMERCIALSPERIOD! Yes I remember all this BS so clearly when they wanted to get cable introduced into our small town. Price was getting out of hand and there was new under the sun. It makes me think that they are banking off the ratings of the news as compared to the rest of their programming. snow in denver for the morning commute. On the TV guide will be 5 or more channels sheerly for products being sold. 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. Denzel Lafayette, of North Adams, Mass., was 22 when he drove to Bennington to . They are useless annoyances. Great piece, Jim. (Average audience is defined as the average number of TVs tuned to a program throughout a time period.). What kind of ridiculous joke is that? Want to know why you get maybe 20 minutes of news and tons of advertising? Thats the only thing they understand. Plus the laundry list of side effects is mind boggling. I pride myself on having this information. Thanks for PBS and thanks for recordings. Yes thats so right! 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. Seems these idiots still dont get it. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. All it takes is a DVR or a PC and a liitle determination to flip-off the advertisers! These ads were about 90 seconds of the 8 minutes 15 seconds of total commercials. 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. So in terms of stand-alone campaign stories this year, it's been 234 minutes for Trump, compared to 10 minutes for Sanders. I never watched it in the first place other than the occasional impossible repair job I was facing and I quickly learned that if I couldnt figure out how to get something apart without breaking it, my chances of finding any help would either be non existent or a waste of my time sesrching. No cable, and sometimes no over the air television either. Abc world news commercials. 2:22. I named the Terracotta Army as a Tattoo choice because of its grand complexity. 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. jim, your logs and stats are to be admired. you PAY for cable and they still hit you with a shitload of commercials every 7 minutes. : Is there any address that I can send my feeling about how many commercials are being played at one time on Satellite TV. 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. (+1) 202-419-4300 | Main The total time spent on previewing the story ends up being just as long as the story itself. Yes, there is way too many commercials on regular tv! Some of the actors had only their names listed (you actually saw them on the screen, but had no idea who they were) . That set the template for everything that has happened since then, and somehow people have forgotten it. Perhaps Im wrong but my recollection is that there was actually a limit on the amount of time for commercials back in the 50s and 60s but it was removed by a suit claiming restraint of yrade. In this insanely capitalistic nation, meaningful legislation to ease this torture is highly unlikely. the fbi saying mcrae suffered from mental health issues, noting they found a Cant escape the greedy grubby uber-consumerism. I have 30 second jump on my remote. I agree, I will never want to buy some product that I been forced to hear about every night over and over. Last year, the average was 15 minutes and 38 seconds, up from 14 minutes and 27 seconds in 2009, according to the report. At least they didnt have any ads for incontinence pads or stair lifts! mcrae, found in lansing, taking his own life as police moved in. next here, the major storm on the move tonight. The cable or sattlelite networks thinks that no one will ever do anything significant for them to worry. Same with ASPCA, UNICEF, CARE, wasteful charities. This was the case with the 1970-71 series The Immortal, of which all episodes are about 51-52 minutes. There are only two countries that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. I have a personal relationship with my doctor (who is himself robbed by malpractice insurance). Really, is that too much to ask? 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. Plus, it chaps my hide that I have to pay for something and still have to endure 30-50% ads. Its terrible. We overdo everything. ", i was watching a cable channel program and there was a commercial break every 6 minutes, makes me want to stop watching tv. This is really interesting, Jim. And if you still need to spend money on good television, support your local PBS station. 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. 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. The opening comment is bull shit If waiters and waitresses live on 15% tips the so can TV advertisers. Almost all insurance companies ads have animal (and sometimes they are the spokesman). I have just finished reading all of the comments above and not a single person is wrong! .. .. .. BOYCOTT YOUR LOCAL CABLE PROVIDER THIS COMING JULY 1ST. I was watching a show the other night and decided to count the commercials.. And it made me NOT want to buy the products advertised. I truly believe that Yellowstone episodes have the least amount of actual programming. m. The real concern for American citizens is the lack of FCC and State Commerce agency oversight . Because of all the commercials I cut my cable subscription to just basic and purchased a roku stick. account for about 50% of all commercials. When respectable visit your local tattooist. I watch General Hospital at 2 PM EST. 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! For if there were only people like me than there would only be graphs that would consist of words like very little, not many, many, a whole lot, mega amount, etc. EVERYONE UNITE! 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Those 500 channels we supposedly get are duplicates and triplicates. Every time I see that pillow commercial I yell out Take your pillow and shove it up your ass. WTF! I guess we all should encourage the commercials . 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. Free TV has at least six minutes less time airing commercials than pay TV! Sick. Same as the Toll Bridge myth. (60 minutes of commercials per 3 hours allotted for a movie). Americans need to stand together and boycott certain channels on certain days to show our voice matters. plus, a severe thunderstorm watch at this hour in parts of the south. Which means my 1 hour show was almost 20mins of commercials. Not only is commercials outrageous but the volume goes up during the commercials. I close my eyes during the estimated commercial times. The FCC? Greed has no inhibitions. Greed. I remember watching Blade and it took forever, completely ruined the film. I DVR EVERYTHING! I am a senior who is furious with the many. It is a sad indictment on our health and our health care system. having worked in the advertising business for a number of years, I can tell you that your conclusions are on the right track. To many commercials.across the board no matter what channel you are watching. Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. 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! During that time period, there were 13 commercials, totaling about 8 minutes and 15 seconds. The average audiences for the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS and NBC grew across all three networks, according to Comscore TV Essentials data. I watched an hour of ABC last evening and the 10 (count em) ads came on every 10 minutes! 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. Anthony Albanese has set up a class war fight with Peter Dutton over superannuation after breaking an election promise and doubling tax rates for 80,000 Australians with nest eggs above $3m. Stop or sign up for some online service. CBS evening news viewership grew 7% to about 5 million viewers in 2020, while NBC viewership rose 8% to 6.5 million. All these advertising scumbags should have razor cuts all over their bodies then drenched in alcohol. Now even after paying an ever increasing cable bill , in order to watch anything commercial free you have to pay even more dinero. I record all the shows I want to watch so that I can fast forward commercials. I have kept it for my husband, who loves sports. Oh dear. you may all hate the commercials, but it is what pays for the programs you watch. Also, the rare time that I watch any prime time series on a major network, There is what amounts to probably 15 minutes of total ad time, compared to thirteen minutes total of the actual TV show. I believe the 30 minutes of nightly news has more than 10 minutes of ads. Too bad great show, couldnt wait for season 2, wont be watching it on ABC. He could be the next Bond Watch any Nova or Nature on wednesday night. The license to operate over the public airways comes with responsibilities-it was never meant to be 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. In Duncan B.C. 3- I would imagine buying a new TV will not be a priority for most people. Call your TV provider and tell them they have a choice. Streaming services are similar to what cable used to in the beginning. Whats worse is they play the same commercial several times a slot! At 6:49 PM the program went to commercial. About 25-30% of the tv show is not what we want to see. Boy, I cant wait for track and field, Just comment on Comcast cable TV- I encourage all viewers to tell these heinous broadcasters we will boycott their programs if they dont significantly REDUCE the number and percentage of ads on their shows. OXYGEN CHANNEL IS THE WORST- ABSOLUTE WORST PROGRAMMING TOO!! Or at least a large percentage of the equity. For more news updates, . 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. 4- This pretty much reduces cable requirements for computer use only. There were only 2 1/2 minutes of commercials during the show and one minute between shows (station break). I guess its my fault since I am about eight months away from enrolling. That makes the amount of adverts par hour at 9 minutes. Better quality with clearer reception and sound. And at ABC World News Tonight, it's been 81 minutes for Trump and. They make more money from advertisers than from customers, so the customer gets fucked with the commercials. FYI my 2014-15 data indicates an average commercial load of 29.54% commercials*. .more .more 3 years ago 79K views 5 years ago 2. So it got too expensive for advertisers. Average audiences for the network TV Sunday morning political talk shows on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC This Week, Face the Nation, Fox News Sunday and Meet the Press, respectively benefited from the election season, each increasing by about 20% in 2020. That is absolutely outrageous and should never happen. 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!!! PULL THE PLUG!! It is sad to see the decline of newspapers, since I enjoy reading them, although now it is done mostly online. But to see all I wanted, I was forced to go to the Dark Side, A fireTV stick, properly programmed, gets me most everything I could ever want to watch for free, no commercials. My beef with World News Tonight is that they tease you endlessly with what you are going to be seeing. I was trying to find out about tv shows back in the 60s & 70s & cant seem to find an answer. I seem to recall that Saint Ronald Reagan deregulated, along with much else, the maximum commercial time on television. Meanwhile, on broadcast, Fox has reduced commercial minutes. I am sure these advertisers know who their target audience is, and Im sure ABC knows what their demographics are for the nightly news. Some of the programmes are mind-numbing so I try to avoid those! Early TV credits had me scratching my head. 1. You cant channel surf anymore, all the channels are on commercial breaks. Why? 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! 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. Have a great one looks like a good day for a ride. Satelite tv never came thru with their promise. AMAC uses its funds to actually HELP seniors, not to rip them off like AARP does at every turn! AARP is as corrupt as the many lying charity pharma & lying AARP adsthe money AARP spends on its massive ad campaign is almost criminal! So if you make $20 per hour, you should be charging $8-9 per hour to watch their commercials. Cord. Was reading comments and agree with news commercial breaks, they have pay the ridiculous 7 figure salaries of the anchors. So cable gets paid from us and through commercials, and nobody is getting off cheap! TvLand is the worst. 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. MANY TIMES, they simply show a complete hour of what they showed before many, many times.. UNTIL, we Boycott TV all together. Last thought, although I continue to be heterosexual, if I ever decided to change teams, it would be because of David Muir. I have timed these commercials, and the number of commercials per one half hour and one hour shows. John. On cable TV, the growth has been even more significant, the report notes. No commercials{netflix}, cheaper, limitied choice yes but your not supposed to be watching that much damn tv in the first place. Financially, advertiser expenditure for the news programs of the three major networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) has been steady in recent years. How much is comfortable? I understand we need them (or at least the stations do), But 41 in an hour.. Thats pathetic.. Ilikebigbboob@gmail.com And the best part is. Doing this makes me even madder knowing that these folk lie to their advertisers about live viewer numbers. A Russian column of troops and tanks was captured via satellite - extending for more than 3.25 miles; The US will send almost $54 million (40 million) in humanitarian aid to Ukraine to assist . I do not have a DVR or any way of recording..just a normal size t.v. Also, they lie to uplift, boost, and cover up the dirt of all Democrats and Joe Biden. I have never switched products on the word of some paid celebrity. 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. I also get the names of the drugs confused and what exactly each one is for. The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. AND SO DO THEY , fucx corporate CHINA now the usa suks ass big time, CORPORATE FUCKIN DAILY FUCK THESE GREED MONGERS kick their stupid ass to curb ,GOD will sort these FAGGOTS OUT and be judged,,,,,, COCKSUCKERS. You show you have no respect for your customers. On ABC news, there is more time spent on commercials, than actual news. The date and time was selected to impact news coverage . Here's how to get the most out of Royal Caribbean's Deluxe Beverage Package (or Prime Casino Royale free drinks in the casino). 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. Twice as many as CNN. Additionally, I find that very often, time is cut from the movie or program to make space for even more commercials! Could you imagine a Navy Seal say Frickin??? For kicks, I time the length of commercial and length of program. 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. 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. Especially with a Republican majority in Congress, the party that would eliminate all regulation. How long before Hulu add increase to equal cable or ota tv? I suppose whomever dies with the most money wins. 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 guess anyone who is watching ABC News fits into their demographic. My first time here. Frankly, Im tired of the Ford, Dodge, Chevy, Nissan, Toyota and Subaru commercials, as well as the Budweiser with its loud obnoxious screaming music. That being NOT enough, they play commercials on the screen during the tv show. then utter greed took over and they pretend it;s because of freedom of something or other!! Ill bet you every penny I have that Google has already copied and filed this post Im going to post and might even try to block me from getting it posted by not allowing my catpcha to work or simply error the page and clear the screen . And I thought it was just me. When I lived in England, We hated to buy a license to watch the BBC. The underlying event is not really newsworthy. So it's taken me about half an hour to 45 minutes longer than usual," Copeland said. I mean, if they can reject a Politicians commercial because they dont like their politics, they should be able to reject some Noisy commercial selling something no one wants. Personally I DVR everything or will pause for 15-20 minutes and go do something then come back and fast scan past them. 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. I sure have not!) Tune in to CNN and imeadiatly set the pause button. That way I can select what to watch,or, delete the programs entirely. This is so bad we all must demand less commercials per hour. When an ad came on my wife looked at me to fast forward through the commercial. 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