you may all hate the commercials, but it is what pays for the programs you watch. Those that think a 1 day boycott will affect the cable company is absolutely mindless and the thought itself makes no sense from the very start. Its just that, since we got cable TV, I only wash dishes during commercials. No unsightly antenna on the roof or tower to maintain. 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!) Then proceed to the bathroom and complete the three Ss, ending with a shower. For kicks I sampled a number of popular channels* to see what the percentage of commercials to programming averaged. The constant commercials are just plain annoying. I can go the bathroom, make a sandwich, and finish it, and the commercials are still not over. Zero stories about how insurance companies increasingly refuse to cover things that might actually happen (black mold, hurricanes, etc.). shows were paying for. To whom should we forward our requests for relief from excessive TV advertising? Laws that regulate this must be enforced or made. 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. 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. Guess the last laugh is really on them. Even if a dvr or fast forward is used, the actual story of the show has been cut. Not only do we pay for the privilege of watching all these commercials, the newscasters are now being forced to speak so fast to allow more space for advertising! Or the top 10% should be helping. I could be interested in watching them but stopped watching. Same goes for all the shows. Stan. But maybe they had a good idea by eliminating the commercials. As a former radio production engineer, I cannot tolerate the current ratio of commercials to music and have abandoned listening to radio entirely. THERE IS A SOLUTION SUPPORT AND WATCH PBS! NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE YOURSELVES HEARD AS ONE UNITED VOICE! Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. Put that money toward your cause and stop making us all feel guilty over stuff we cant really change. 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. This is commercial insanity. "In 2009, 30-second spots accounted for 62% of all ads on television; 15-second spots were just 35%. CUT & PASTE THIS MESSAGE AND KEEP PASSING IT ON!! Satelite tv never came thru with their promise. Upon your return you should have a decent amount of news with the ability fast forward through all the adds and guff this news opperater wishes to chuck at you..Nuff said. Power in numbers- organise and pull away from TV. How about a government run insurance that only takes premiums to cover claims, and administrative costs, and returns ALL extra monies on a pro rata basis back to the customers? The commercial lasts from 15 to 30 seconds and there would be more than one company or product advertised. Seems these idiots still dont get it. I promise you that over 15 minutes of the half hour show was ad time. 13 commercials in a row on cbs channel 4 on Wednesday 10/13/21. To many commercials.across the board no matter what channel you are watching. 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. in a few more years the television industry with pass into history. NBCU sits at the bottom, with 11.1. If you arent watching their every move they takes advantage of you. And we get more commercial ads then ever. Most This is Us fans know the money that goes into the commercial breaks play a vital role in keeping the show on the air season after season, along with ratings. Really!! Watch only the first half then turn it off. Such a irritating every time whenever watching tv or one thing every news chennel has a tie up with each other they take comercial break same time such a pain. Yes, there is way too many commercials on regular tv! The next episode starts at 3:42PM and ends at 4:12PM. No ambulance chasers, no pill pill pushers, no car/home warranty sheisters. The standard length of a TV ad is 30 seconds long. It is 4 AM, so I dont feel like researching this, maybe someone else will do the honors. And it made me NOT want to buy the products advertised. Do the math,not worth watching unless you are hooked on commercials, not to mention prolific number of re runs. Think about it. The number of commercials has increased to the point where its no longer possible to follow, no less watch I noticed on one channel they have commercials about every 12 to 15 minutes for the first 45 minutes. 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 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?) Bastards, TV commercials are what the mute button is for. They have done a very good job at alienating viewers now by LOADING the broadcast with commercial interruptions. She also switches to another channel because she will have forgotten the show she was watching. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. by Alexander Pope. I have not watched TV for several years now. Liberty ads are really annoying too, with all that loud repetitive background music.. Twice as many as CNN. ALSO, since Im typing in this box and TRYING TO READ what Ive wrote I CANT SEE 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. It is getting to the point where we watch a lot less tv about ready to drop cable. I have noticed a great increase in commercialson TNT morning shows and they are all the same old ones. I also doubt that the commencials happen every 6 minutes, that would mean 10 breaks but only 90 seconds of commercials at a break, way lower. I like watching TV. r uou with me on this ??? I copy the shows I like on my VCR ..then zip through all the commercials later on.I never waste my time watching any shows anymore..Zchannel 7with david Muir..A complete waste of time seems likes hundred commercials on his news show. Advertising is the no 1 money making tool for every company, even though you dont see some companies ads, it doesnt mean they arent actively advertising. Is your bathroom closer to the TV? Just finished the second episode of American Crime on ABC, I counted at least 6 minutes of commercials 4 times at least, possibly 5. I seem to recall that Saint Ronald Reagan deregulated, along with much else, the maximum commercial time on television. (A DVR just makes the viewer go back and forth too much) Im a retired senior and watch too much TV but Im going to the library more often and gradually watching less. Soon my show is nearly over and I still have six commercials left to start supper! I share a Netflix account with my daughter and have recently subscribed to YouTubeTV for a fraction of what Comcast was charging. Increase in commercials? Never will you hear of someone getting something extra from a service but I can find millions of overcharges made using that billing! The content lasting 15 seconds followed by 2.3 to 3.1 minutes of commercials. ASPCA LIES. She at Shaw told me it was mailed June 01,2021, I never opened it because I got a notice on my computer over due, That is a insult to me .Thank You in Advance ,But we both know the outcome. I am sorry if I have caused any offence. I hate to say it but by keeping cable or even Hulu or Amazon or watching you tube, youre just moving to the next platform thats already planning on how they can increase ads and charge you more way before you see it happen. 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. 90% of funds go into execs pockets, almost NOTHING goes to benefit the cause the charity was created to help. The myth was that you would pay for cable in order to be free from commercial interruption. I remember 10 years ago I didnt need a cable box to get HD tv direct to my set. MY GOOD GOD so much time is wasted on non-programs, the very programs we PAY to watch. Manipulative political porn. John. 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. 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. We refuse to pay $100 a month anymore for TV broadcasting full of ads that mostly insult our intellegence. HLN will give tidbits of whats to come, and by the time the commercials are done, youve forgotten what you were waiting for. MANY TIMES, they simply show a complete hour of what they showed before many, many times.. Shelters dont have enough supply to meet the demand. When it comes to commercial advertisements, I simply fast forward them. One thing that is ironic: I do enjoy some of those comedy commercials from time to time. That is absolutely outrageous and should never happen. Why cant all advertising be put on a special advertising channel and not on regular tv? Yes, we have optionsshut the box off! Thereis no reason anyone has to subject himself/herself to Madison Avenue ad firms. We the public get it. WTF! account for about 50% of all commercials. Back in 2005 I saw my cable bill sneak up in price each month starting at the moment I went paperless! Now its mainly Pawn Stars and other such rubbish. I get Amazon Prime free because Im a member (and use Amazon to order a lot of stuff). 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. So did it run 1:15 or 1:30 total. So each 1/2 None are worth the bombardment of their commercials. 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. I am tired of all the feminine and hygiene products such as, tampon, bra, panty and the other commercials. I have a method to this madness, I watch these stations and flip during the commercials: ABC News, CNN News, and HLN News. Boy, I cant wait for track and field, Just comment on Comcast cable TV- If only we could return to those halcyon days before big pharma was allowed TV ads. Sorry, but no. greediest Coxxsuckers on the planet.WASTERS BIG TIME pharma ads suck dick. if the public hated the show, the sponsor was screwed. Back to my soap opera! Had to quit watching. To whom should we forward our requests for relief from excessive TV advertising? True Roy. When watching something On Demand, they will insert their own commercials JUST BEFORE a regular commercial will present, such that if you just wait though the whole commercial set, you will be MISSING some of the actual program without even knowing it! I can understand if it was free. I, agree with all these other vewers about commercials being out of control. I m just sick of paying for dish cable ads where are the t.v. 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. So freaking stupid. The commercials FINALLY ended! 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. i agree this commercial break every 6 min is annoying and dumb, this is ANNOYING i went to go watch my favourite show but there was ads so i went to 10 new channels and ALL HAD ADDS F*K DIS IM DONE. I do not have a DVR or any way of recording..just a normal size t.v. Detroit local channel, 2.5 hr. Stop the ads ..we are sick of them where are the t.v.shows with out sooo many ads. Im also in development of a product that auto-mutes commercials, as the existing products out there that auto-mute dont work for long. Yes I remember all this BS so clearly when they wanted to get cable introduced into our small town. at one scene Marcus Lattrell said Frick You. you PAY for cable and they still hit you with a shitload of commercials every 7 minutes. I agree. 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. Ill copy and save it and try again if it does. 60 minute program, without the ads equals to 42-44 minutes, going but TV box sets such as 24 one hour show but each episode on the DVD is around 42-44 minutes long. The cable operators employ a large staff of highly paid lobbyists to twist the arms of these Boycott everything to do with them Today and go with netflix, streaming, youtube or whatever. David Muirs nightly news at 6:30 is absolutely THE WORST when it comes to commercials. Not to mention the newscaster is CUT OFF IN MID SENTENCE. Every time I see that pillow commercial I yell out Take your pillow and shove it up your ass. The average time actually spent viewing the show was 6-7 minutes between commercials. Its no secret. The FCC has COMPLETE and TOTAL authority over them, so which do you think would be more effective at handling your complaints? Big Brother, Fake News and certain billionaire despots now run this country. I realize that someone has to pay for the freight so why not charge more for commercial time and have fewer of them? Thus, a sitcom script is generally between 25 and 40 pages long. Its getting even more annoying this year. And no I am not 13 I am 14. There must be a better solution if they want to keep any viewers. Why pay to watch commercials. Why is it that when the program Cheaters comes on at 4am each morning, they may limit their commercials to around 2 and then its back to the show. The comments posted here, if they were put in written letter form (NOT emails), properly addressed to the FCC would certainly approach the desired effect of annoying the person responsible for reading and respondong to each of them. When Mika says coming up, I rapidly tap the 30 second jump botton 8 times (4 minutes and Im good. Cant escape the greedy grubby uber-consumerism. A typical TV show is usually approximately 22 minutes for every 1/2 hour of time. Bravo, Sir! Doesnt seem that way anymore!!! I have never ,and I mean never have bought one thing that Ive seen on a commercial. This is in Canada using telus. Some of the actors had only their names listed (you actually saw them on the screen, but had no idea who they were) . Dish is adamant (rightly so I hope) that the BETAMAX case that went to the Supreme Court years ago settled the time-shifting of recorded material for the sole purpose of non commercial (not for hire or re-braodcast) use by the consumer was not an infringement on the copyright of the broadcasters nor their TV ad subsidized commercials. 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 . Her accent is as grating as the commercial breaks. We go to the least expensive product that has the safest ingredients. Every sitcom episode has a main plot (story A), as well as one or two subplots (stories B and C). This channel is RIDDLED with what seems like only the following commercials. I would expect that advertisers will only throw so much support behind the rising costs of program licensing and production, so stations/networks need to increase sales opportunities in order to maintain (and/or grow) the return on investment. So many of us dvr and replay in order to skip over these interruptions. I have just finished reading all of the comments above and not a single person is wrong! I just complain to Direct TV.. but there all laughing at us. That comes out to be 1 ad every minute of the show. (b) This may be increased by a further three minutes per hour (5 per cent) devoted to 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. 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. Copy. local news. In this insanely capitalistic nation, meaningful legislation to ease this torture is highly unlikely. they are totally stupid, they encourage people to think they can drive like idiots with there cell phones stuck in there ear and cars sliding all over the place. I swear, no more than 45-60 seconds of show, then 2+ full min. As soon as I find another internet provider I will be done with DISH. 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. I would think thats advertiser deception and probably prohibited by law. Thats truly sad. 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. AARP is as corrupt as the many lying charity pharma & lying AARP adsthe money AARP spends on its massive ad campaign is almost criminal! The ads are stupid, monotonous, even condescending to men, who are made to look like worthless, bumbling fools or worseAARP ads flood the screen, dishonest PCH ads claim to offer money no one ever wins(have you ever heard of anyone winning any PCH prizes? Write and send your complaints to the FCC. 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. I truly believe that Yellowstone episodes have the least amount of actual programming. 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. It seems the news interrupts a stream of hideous car ads etc. 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. 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. The Journals analysis found that commercials took up about an hour, or one-third, of the game. PBS. Anyway, viewers are beginning to revolt by not watching! What can be done to set new regulations on advertising interruption time of network programs. Act 1: All the shit that leads up to the first commercial break. I to, have never bought a prodect that has been adderverised. Disgusting! 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. And more commercials are being jammed into that growing ad hole, with the number of 30-second spots decreasing while the number of 15-second ads rises. I have learned to be very good at commercial cleaning. In some cases they play the same commercials several times in one spot. I have been researching, all I really wanted was the History Channel and the news but they cut the better of the history channels!!! With a new one featured every hour! (60 minutes of commercials per 3 hours allotted for a movie). Thinking you can run and hide from ads is simply foolish, everyone has already pointed this out when they say cable started ad free, yet everyone thinks Hulu and similar devices arent going to follow the same basic idea thats been true on every other platform since video was invented. it`s funny. Sitcoms, minus the commercials, are typically 22 minutes long. Now that Dish has taken it to a new level (automatically skipping commercials) I suppose our lazy fingers can still manually figure how to Fast Forward as weve been doing for 30+ years. NO COMMERCIALS NEEDED. *Includes, but not limited to AMC, Chiller, This, IFC, SyFi, TNT, and FX. Im sure its much, much higher, as in up in the thousands. It is now July 13, 2022. The Federal Communications Commission is the only God TV broadcasters and advertisers fear. The next commercial is in four minutes and that gives me three minutes to run my sweeper and put it away. They would be very surprised to see these being young viewers since they have known those people where never part of the cable users base. WebAnswer (1 of 2): As time has gone by, television has created more ways to get advertising in front of more eyeballs. It didn`t take any time at all for greed to step into that game. I cut the cord in August, 2009 and have never missed it. And the best part is. WebMost hour shows have about 5 breaks, but the number of breaks doesn't really matter since it usually amounts to 16-19 minutes total. Great, she said. We, as human beings, watch way too much tv, and its been proven make us more complacent rather than free thinking, emotionally intelligent people. If Im interested in watching something, I simply wait for it to come out on dvd, and watch it that way. a marketing resource.. Web214 votes, 22 comments. WE ARE RETIRED, TV IS GETTING WORSE. Really? There are only two countries that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. I hate commercials so much. 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. Last year I started to watch football games with the remote nearby or in my hand so I could mute all the commercials. Why cant you do like in Denmark where adds are placed between programs. I need ur help.. what is the standard rate of 2 minutes advertisement on TV and RADIO tnx.. 28 commercials on channel 251, August 27, 2017. The average NFL game includes 20 commercial breaks containing more than 100 ads. I rarely watch TV now because frankly, its far too damned annoying. That is a good plan, Walter. NO MORE. Youre dumb. I agree, I will never want to buy some product that I been forced to hear about every night over and over. I have 30 second jump on my remote. Many of them require additional paid subscriptions. All tv outlets are doing this now, Logo airs Fresh Prince in 45min blocks. I wondering how much of the show Im really seeing. Who is the DIM-WHIT that expects us to see light gray text on white? Just watched E channel. I have recently started a website, the info you provide on this site has helped me greatly. It does absolutely NO GOOD to gripe about TV ads on forums like this one. I can no longer pay for TV and have more minutes of advertising than a program I am canceling my Direct TV. Watch PBS, commercial free and you get actual news and not what a pundit thinks. In about 15 years most of the television stations will be gone because they cannot charge very much for their commercial space if everyone is skipping thru the commercials with their Fast Forward buttons. That way I can select what to watch,or, delete the programs entirely. Be not a sheep. 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. 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. End credits of tv shows were not interrupted by future shows. If people like ads that much let them get a channel that plays nothing but ads. 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. Like all other TV distributors RCN also interrupt their shows every 3-4 minutes with the most stupid unintelligent add programs. Why are we one of them? MSNBC unwatchable. The number came out to 25 minutes of commercials and just over 22 minutes of actual show. I have timed these commercials, and the number of commercials per one half hour and one hour shows. Medicare Advantage, Sling TV are you ready now?, of commercials. News 40-60 seconds news then cut to 4 minutes of ads. These commercials are terrible for news programs because a viewer never gets to know anything about a story because of interruptions. See ya, I have to take a 20 minute commercial break! So for a 60-minute show, there would (on average) be a little over 15 minutes of commercials. Cord. Thanks for PBS and thanks for recordings. We are already doing that they just dont care and since more people are switching to streaming they need more adds to cover their lost profit, hence more commercials per hour, I cant stand fox NFL on Sundays or Thursday night football bc they fuck with more commercials then football damn it. Maybe the liberty guy hopes to get those 2 woman to pull over so he can pork them and cut them up with his unshaven face. Start up your car and wait until the ice melts off of all wind shields. I subscribe to Sling for sports, but will be cutting that as well,in a day or two. No commercials{netflix}, cheaper, limitied choice yes but your not supposed to be watching that much damn tv in the first place. In the US there are approximately eight or 8-1/2 minutes of commercials per half hour of Broadcast Television. I say God bless TMC which runs entire classic movies without commercial interruption. In other words, they expand the viewing time by almost half for your commercial enjoyment. Its called Infomercial TV. Recognize that this is a deductible business expense. So, tax dollars help pay for advertising! Using the autopsy feature on anything is a sure way to leave the door open to your loss. 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. They said frickin at least 300 times Well some of them at least. 2- When we watch annoying commercials I will go out of my way to avoid buying the product or services. Here in UK we get 3 minute add break every 12-15 minutes and on BBC, there are no adverts. Even the newscasters find ways to interject company names or products into their conversation- and during the actual news. : Is there any address that I can send my feeling about how many commercials are being played at one time on Satellite TV. I never realised how much utter nonsense was on tv. 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. 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. Whats worse is they play the same commercial several times a slot! So much Advertisement it covers every thing I want to read As my title says, all 3 That being NOT enough, they play commercials on the screen during the tv show. What a joke $$$$ all that money spent and these idiots , that is all you can do? 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 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. I either watch DVDs or stream commercial free from Netflix or Hulu. 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. In one hour, 33-40% of the time is devoted to commercials. 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. Other TV distributors RCN also interrupt their shows every 3-4 minutes with the most stupid unintelligent add programs lasting. 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