As advertisements increase the Cable Companys are making a bundle so there comes a time when the Cable Companys should no longer charge the consumer. Of the 13 commercials, 9 were health-related and featured the following pharmaceutical and over the counter products: Rinvoq for rheumatoid arthritis, Entyvio for Crohns and ulcerative colitis, Otezla for psoriasis, Eliquis for a-fib, Dulcolax for constipation, Aspercreme for aches and pains, and Trulicity for type 2 diabetes. Its outrageous! I think some stories get mention four times before its actually shown. I either watch DVDs or stream commercial free from Netflix or Hulu. Nobody does it better. Because of all the commercials I cut my cable subscription to just basic and purchased a roku stick. 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. If you want to add other channels there are bundles or single channels available to be added to your package. There are times when you get one news story followed by a set of commercials and then another single story followed by more commercials. The rates go up, service goes down. If that is still the case most of the channels are not following that. I wonder if the PBS newshour is any different. Increase in commercials? our shows.. Stop watching TV or rent movies. THERE IS A SOLUTION SUPPORT AND WATCH PBS! Power in numbers- organise and pull away from TV. Youd have to be an idiot to buy something they have to advertise every 10 minutes i buy the stuff they dont advertise because it speaks for itself, We are developing an APP that allows you to prerecord any program less the commercials. 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!) Tune in to CNN and imeadiatly set the pause button. Virtually all of the commercials were in good taste, the one. Movies same format. Great observations, Jim. Ive been irritated by the ratio of commercials to actual news for quite some time now & happy to see Im not the only one. https://youtu.be/fryBnFSYlLw, thanks for the link; Ive never heard of this condition (fortunately!). Hit them in their bank account. 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. In Duncan B.C. Accounting teacher, fitness enthusiast, blogger, reader. You have validated many of my own suspicions. Best thing we ever did. What do you use now? I understand we need them (or at least the stations do), But 41 in an hour.. Thats pathetic.. Ilikebigbboob@gmail.com They show more and more commercials, I watch less and less TV. At 6:49 PM the program went to commercial. That is why I have gone to Netflix and antenna TV only I know other people will continue watching the cable and Dish and all the other ways out there. But the real problem is advertisements ,yes Its big money for someone So just what does Not the bottom 90%. The commercials are horribly produced for the most part. 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. Before he goes back to sleeping on the job waiting for the emu to wake him, THEY WONT LISTEN TO REASON!!! "This week's episodes of Wheel of Fortune may be delayed or preempted for special coverage from ABC World News Tonight. So sick of the same stupid commercials on the comedy network Three letters P B S !!! This is a very different Hillary Clinton to the managed political performer. 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!!! The next commercial is in four minutes; I set up my vacuum and pick up newspapers and shoes that are cluttering the floor. Watch PBS, commercial free and you get actual news and not what a pundit thinks. For kicks I sampled a number of popular channels* to see what the percentage of commercials to programming averaged. When i watch it i skip the commercials . I know I am in the minority, but commercials have never bothered me. I find that I start to worry about myself if I watch daytime tv, which seems to be full of ads for aids to daily living I must be getting old! Discovery Channel is worst over 20 mins of commercials per hour I want to quit watching, Look guys this stupid asshole states he enjoys comedy commercials. 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. there is way to many commerices on GH NOT ENOUGH OF THE SOAP SHOW I BEEN WATCHING THIS SOAP SINCE IT STARTED ON TV A LONG TIME LOUISE I WANT TO SEE IT ON FOR 2 HOURS EVERY DAY LESS COMMERICES AND LIKE TO SEE THEM ALL SING OUT THE SHOW THAT WAS SO GREAT AND WANT TO SEE LUKE BACK AND SCORPIE BACK THANKYOU. 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. I get much better information from online news sources, apps like The Guardian, and from international streaming sources, all of which are free and are much lighter on the commercial load. Thats why the only way we watch TV is to DVR the shows and fast forward through the commercials. Our cable bill is out of sight, we are cutting the cable and going over the air or even tossing out our tVs. 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. It makes me not want to watch TV. This fact sheet was compiled by Research Assistant Kirsten Worden and Research Analyst Mason Walker. This is in Canada using telus. I have been keeping track of the commercial minutes and programming minutes on DISH, it averages 5 minutes of commercials and 9 minutes of programming. I dont watch much broadcast or cable TV anymore, but there are some good shows out there. https://sites.google.com/view/hotel-managements/home. and we begin tonight with the alarming new number with the They use that as an open invitation to raise rated without ever telling you. When i reminder her that it was live TV she went to bed. My friend says I only saw curvature because the plane's windows are curved. Theres a far better world in Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. But the thing that I cant understand is the fact that customers think that posting their complaints will actually have any impact on anything. The frequent interruptions also add to our anger and frustration. In the past month, I have actually enjoyed only 3 commercials out of hundreds. On two of those three networks, the start time for the show is like 3:06PM and ends at 3:36PM. And I agree that news watching is probably up righT now, a boom for the tv stations. Either something almost happened but was averted, or the event amounted to local . They create ads and then asks you to pay not to watch them. Its getting to the point I dont even want to watch regular TV, and one person that did suggest to DVR it, theyre not letting you skip through the commercials on the DVR now. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. I not only stopped paying for tv because of endless commercials but they all found a new way to rip people off and profiting showing blocks of same shows endlessly repeated day after day. We overdo everything. Then Comcast will be forced once again to treat their customers with respect as they used to. I think we all like to sit down in front of the tellie and watch a movie, sitcom or the news without so very many interruptions. CNN has gone totally political now, with the anchors boasting their ideas-not the publics. Additionally, I find that very often, time is cut from the movie or program to make space for even more commercials! Choose to have the Teracota Army stencilled on your back and wait for it to heel. Allow me to reply to myself. Jury deliberates on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial; Pfizer asks FDA to authorize COVID-19 antiviral pill; Floods displace hundreds of families in Washington state. Why are we one of them? I have been researching, all I really wanted was the History Channel and the news but they cut the better of the history channels!!! 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. 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. NR | 11.16.21 | 20:47 | CC. 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. One minute of news then cut to 5 of adverts. 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. I have never ,and I mean never have bought one thing that Ive seen on a commercial. And we can still watch 10 minutes of Good Morning America at 7AM CST, and have the next TWENTY MINUTES of commercials to make our lunches for work. The license to operate over the public airways comes with responsibilities-it was never meant to be I watch General Hospital at 2 PM EST. (+1) 202-857-8562 | Fax Get the latest news stories and headlines from around the world. Mr. Zinda is correct; venting your ire here will only provide fuel to the advertisers fire, and the stations really DONT CARE whether you watch their commercials or not, because theyve ALREADY BEEN PAID for that ad. I always mute them, I will come back into the room just to mute them. Some of the actors had only their names listed (you actually saw them on the screen, but had no idea who they were) . CNN devotes up to 12 commercial in its quick breaks. Think about it. 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. What their next move? The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. plus, a severe thunderstorm watch at this hour in parts of the south. Based upon this research, it seems apparent to me that the news makes people sick. So 90 minute program equals to 70-75 minutes, and 2 hour program at 84-88 minutes. The constant commercials are just plain annoying. None are worth the bombardment of their commercials. oversight agencies and they are on a path to kill the golden goose. These greedy bastards better wake up, streaming subscriptions are surpassing cable satillite. Cant get much worse! you PAY for cable and they still hit you with a shitload of commercials every 7 minutes. Have noticed commercial are the same for over a year. So far, its coming along great ! Network TV news appointment viewing for many Americans saw its audience increase somewhat across networks in 2020. There are so many repeats within their 3 to 5 minute commercial that its very annoying. Eight minutes of movie to nine minutes of ads I timed it! 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). (This data reflects Kantars estimates of the amount of money paid by advertisers, rather than the amount of revenue actually earned by networks.). I can no longer pay for TV and have more minutes of advertising than a program I am canceling my Direct TV. Lying crooks! They tease every single story at the top and some 3 or more times during the show. I dont watch much TV but I have asked my parents to take note of the change in commercials with the lockdown. Watch any Nova or Nature on wednesday night. Pretty soon there will be more commercial and show.. What adds insult to injury is that my cable company wants me to pay for television channels that are riddled with commercials. I mute all commercials, and if I do see an advertiser on way more than others, I never buy their product. However, what Ive found lately is that the commercials seem to be corresponding with each other I cant get a break. Can sound incoherent. Last thought, although I continue to be heterosexual, if I ever decided to change teams, it would be because of David Muir. All it takes is a DVR or a PC and a liitle determination to flip-off the advertisers! In terms of golf on the golf channel I believe there are more commercials than golf which is rather disruptive and makes viewing totally unfavorable.I would prefer to tape and fast forward on all commercials and I believe more and more people are doing this. I now have an antenna set up to receive local programming on approx 25 to 40 stations. 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. Am I pleased that I download my viewing.. When an ad came on my wife looked at me to fast forward through the commercial. 4. I tuned into my local ABC affiliate at around 6:45 PM this evening to catch the remainder of ABC World News Tonight with David Muir. But There was one thing you forgot to mention the amount of time they took up by saying and coming up while showing a preview of what we were about to see at least 3 to 4 times each. They are just using their collected info to do smarter targeted ads. Like all other TV distributors RCN also interrupt their shows every 3-4 minutes with the most stupid unintelligent add programs. The total time spent on previewing the story ends up being just as long as the story itself. Well some of them at least. 3- I would imagine buying a new TV will not be a priority for most people. So cable gets paid from us and through commercials, and nobody is getting off cheap! The series, along with Jeopardy!, had to halt production due to the coronavirus. Once you begin enjoying some of their wide variety of comm free programming, you will actually want to support them as well. Yes. I am getting rid of the cable contract. 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. Commercials are included. Im proud to say that I dont recognise a single advert on TV when I see one played wherever I might be. No and now Frontier has added a fast forward rejection for commercials. I can go the bathroom, make a sandwich, and finish it, and the commercials are still not over. 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. PBS. I think the days of showing a movie on commercial TV are over. 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. I cannot stand watching the news anymore. How many years of the rest of your life do you want to devote to advertisers? then utter greed took over and they pretend it;s because of freedom of something or other!! We not only are paying for cable, but also giving them 20-25 minutes of our time. I too have never nor will I ever purchase any product that interrupts a show Im watching with their stupid advertising. Old shows that ran 22 minutes per 1/2 hour are so cut up its almost unrecognizable. I suppose it depends on what kind of sandwich youre making. 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. It helps to see like-minded people as fed up with the frequency and excessive amount of stupid, inane ads as I. Senators/Representatives?. GROSS !!!!!!! On Location: February 24, 2023. Fight the good fight, tell the Networks and Madison Ave. to piss off! To think what the advertisers can create and pull-off in one minute has always impressed me. We were sucked into to the BIG LIE of pay TV under the notion that well now pay for the TV service but commercials would be gone. Stream ABC World News Tonight Episodes on Sling TV Sling TV Orange is $20/month. Shit ads for a shit show they ruined TV, No black actors except all blacks all gay ads WTF a campaign for WHO ? I like watching TV. In the old days (mid 60s) it used to be around 6 minutes per half hour and about 11 minutes per hour. Have been watching over the air channels for a year because cable is a rip off. Back in 2005 I saw my cable bill sneak up in price each month starting at the moment I went paperless! snow in denver for the morning commute. I would think thats advertiser deception and probably prohibited by law. If Joe Biden dropped a bomb tomorrow, guess who wouldn't cover the true story and guess who they'd pin it on, President Trump. They show a lot of old 80s and 90s sitcoms on Saturday and Sundays. Im jealous of your time spent in advertising, its always seemed like a fascinating field. It seems the news interrupts a stream of hideous car ads etc. We, as human beings, watch way too much tv, and its been proven make us more complacent rather than free thinking, emotionally intelligent people. Ill copy and save it and try again if it does. Zimadude. Our obsession with money is at a disgusting level. I also pay for YouTube premium to avoid commercials. Hundreds of ABC staff gathered around the country today and voted to walk off the job for 40 minutes at 2pm on Tuesday, 7 March. 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. You show you have no respect for your customers. ~Ben I mostly watch Netflix and get my news streamed on the Internet. This forum has no authority over TV stations, nor their advertisers. 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. All fluff. I am sick and tired of wasting my time and paying for adds on TV. 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 . Average audiences for morning news programs from ABC, CBS and NBC remained mostly steady in 2020, with CBS seeing a slight (5%) decline in morning news viewership. So now I stream ad-free movies and shows for far less money, and am much more satisfied for it. This makes both sad and scary reading to me A sign of the times.. We have had a DVR for 10 years or so. "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir will have an exclusive interview with former Vice President Mike Pence. Tonight I timed the last 15 minutes of the ABC nightly news. at one scene Marcus Lattrell said Frick You. View all posts by Jim Borden. Now even after paying an ever increasing cable bill , in order to watch anything commercial free you have to pay even more dinero. MY GOOD GOD so much time is wasted on non-programs, the very programs we PAY to watch. I wonder if David Muir knows how truly annoying his show is to people. TV and if I see a commercial promoting anything, I dont buy that product. So many of us dvr and replay in order to skip over these interruptions. The amount of commercial time on cable TV keeps increasing as networks try to make up for shrinking audiences by stuffing more ads into every hour of television. I assume its a matter of financial survival or rather profit-growing to keep investors interested in supporting the model. I have not watched TV for several years now. This news program lies to hurt President Trump, Republicans, and conservatives. I cant wait until the return of normal commercials for junk food and beer! Before writing a major complaint , check your facts. Ive taken to muting commercials. I better understand why after the news I was always sure there was some ailment I needed to attend to. We were watching ABCs World News Tonight earlier this evening, and my wife and I were both struck with how many health care related commercials there were, particularly drug-related. people are trapped in their homes and worried about what is going on. So the two join forces and overwhelm us with their messages. "It's crazy," said Westbrook, who started and had 17 points, 14 assists and seven turnovers in 39 minutes before fouling out with 1:49 remaining in the second overtime. I agree with you on the number of commercials but you are insinuating that RA is an old folk disease. You have to factor in all of the late night infomercials as well. Thirteen minutes per hour? I have learned to be very good at commercial cleaning. Im pretty much done with that. These days, I find myself watching General Hospital less and less. I love how you broke all this down. The average time actually spent viewing the show was 6-7 minutes between commercials. I DVR a lot of what I watch. Thanks for putting in the hard work! 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. gave me a G-mail Address, they even got that spelled wrong But it worked. I guess my wife and I are getting old. 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. See ya, I have to take a 20 minute commercial break! Agreed theres an app and drug for virtually everything. Which means my 1 hour show was almost 20mins of commercials. AMAC uses its funds to actually HELP seniors, not to rip them off like AARP does at every turn! The other episodes were of comparable length. If youre curious, the other four commercials were for Geico, Celebrity Family Feud/Press Your Luck, IBM, and The Bachelor. In 1995 the series premier of Star Trek Voyager cost over 23 million dollars to build all of the sets and then produce the very first episode. what cat we do to stop it! MSNBC unwatchable. Then proceed to the bathroom and complete the three Ss, ending with a shower. AARP lies & spends millions on its ads which flood the screen time after time, day in, day out. 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. Sick. I havent watched commercials in years, since TIVO came out. ), Advertiser expenditures for the evening broadcast news programs ABCs World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News each rose in 2020, according to estimates from Kantar. Great, she said. We paid to watch TV, not the advertisers. Put that money toward your cause and stop making us all feel guilty over stuff we cant really change. television shows. 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 knew, for example, that insurance and animals were closely related. Im sorry if you thought that, but that was not my intention. Please help us! However, excessive commercials take away a lot from programs I enjoy. - Only last week ahead of the All-Star break did Klay Thompson even receive medical clearance to play on back-to-back nights, 13 months after his return from a more than 2 1/2-year absence . you may all hate the commercials, but it is what pays for the programs you watch. That comes out to be 1 ad every minute of the show. 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. Satelite tv never came thru with their promise. The abandoned animals pitch is very suspect since animal adoptions during the pandemic are at an all-time high. Why cant all advertising be put on a special advertising channel and not on regular tv? NetFlix/Hulu/Etc are it. This is cheapness on a grand scale and the average viewer doesnt realize that by having MORE commercials and less news, the news divisions also need fewer employees. Her accent is as grating as the commercial breaks. You would think that I should be entitled to watch commercial free movies. Aside from that, Im intrigued that there are enough men suffering from Peyronies Disease to warrant a recurring commercial starting with, Is your penis curved?, I have not seen that commercial, but it is strange that they feel there is a need for a commercial. 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). 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? Whats worse is they play the same commercial several times a slot! Same as the Toll Bridge myth. FoxNews is one of the worse. OXYGEN CHANNEL IS THE WORST- ABSOLUTE WORST PROGRAMMING TOO!! How is the word commercial defined? And, despite what you might think, there is most definitely a Law of Synchronized Commercials! I suppose whomever dies with the most money wins. Heres a perfect example: one of my all-time favorite sitcoms, MASH, is re-run on three different cable networks throughout any weekday. When it comes to commercial advertisements, I simply fast forward them. My wife and I occasionally comment on just this topic. I just got a 4k tv and I want to see the whole screen while my show is on. Too many channels, too many commercials is killing tv. A commercial every 3 to 4 minutes. I watched Big Sky TV show last week and timed the number of minutes. Once, I timed a 30-minute local newscast: 12 minutes of commercials!! Boycott Cable, even CNN, there is no other way they will learn. 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. 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