Thats the reason I i am a fan of streaming , I also like streaming, but I have to admit, and I know I am in the minority here, I actually enjoy watching some commercials. 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. I have kept it for my husband, who loves sports. What a shame that these greedy TV morons cant fix the aggravating problem. And, despite what you might think, there is most definitely a Law of Synchronized Commercials! Think about it. Whats worse is they play the same commercial several times a slot! Stop or sign up for some online service. And the redundant teasing of a six word News headline, as another reader mentioned-is so darn annoying. Aggravating, distracting and actually counterproductive. 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. But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. I think the days of showing a movie on commercial TV are over. Also, the programs would end at the actual time instead of on the hour. Ready to go back to broadcast TV. 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. My guess is that there are more and more shorter commercials because the advertisers are less likely to pay for them. My takeaway is that people who watch ABC World News Tonight may not be the healthiest people in the world, but they have do have access to doctors and drugs. I was trying to find out about tv shows back in the 60s & 70s & cant seem to find an answer. PBS. So freaking stupid. "In 2009, 30-second spots accounted for 62% of all ads on television; 15-second spots were just 35%. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Youre dumb. PrettyWell. That is absolutely outrageous and should never happen. Heres a perfect example: one of my all-time favorite sitcoms, MASH, is re-run on three different cable networks throughout any weekday. So it's taken me about half an hour to 45 minutes longer than usual," Copeland said. 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. Even PBS has ads. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. 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. Commercials have been a bane of mine for quite some time. My friend says I only saw curvature because the plane's windows are curved. Notice that insurance companies (looking at you geico, liberty, allstate, farmers, general, etc.) 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! An hour of United States prime-time television loses 8 minutes to commercials. My Doctor friend told me while eating lunch that if a drug was heavily advertised a patient should never, never ever take it. I think well have a casserole, so I can watch Dr. Phil at 4PM. 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 spend my spare time with YouTube now. 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. Its a shame what it has come to..Pathetic A.F. I was watching a show the other night and decided to count the commercials.. Thats why the only way we watch TV is to DVR the shows and fast forward through the commercials. Look it up. Plus, it chaps my hide that I have to pay for something and still have to endure 30-50% ads. The amount of commercials are ridiculous! Stay up to date on US and world news or catch up on the latest in politics, weather, health, business, and more from America's #1 news source. Morning 1/2 hr. In this article, we'll help you decide which option is best for you. And Im curious how much ABC news charges for a one-minute commercial maybe something for me to do today! Im tired of being brainwashed with all the stupidity of the ads being shown. John. NBC and ABC,. Im proud to say that I dont recognise a single advert on TV when I see one played wherever I might be. The cable or sattlelite networks thinks that no one will ever do anything significant for them to worry. I guess we all should encourage the commercials . Americans need to stand together and boycott certain channels on certain days to show our voice matters. 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. Ive taken to muting commercials. ABC News Live brings you in-depth reporting and storytelling from across the country and around the world Watch the FX and Hulu documentary film The New York Times Presents. An entirely new business model is needed for TV. I only noticed it because some of the shows I was watching seemed to be going unusually ABRUPTLY from show to commercial. The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. I would be curious to know if the reason for more and more commercials is that operating costs keep going up or if its going into profits for the cable companies and their executives. The ridiculous ratio between commercial time vs. movie time MUST be alienating viewers. Twice as many as CNN. I watched Lone Survivor on demand on comcast @Mr.Zinda: "Another night of consequential news," said ABC's "World News Tonight" anchor, during his litany of the latest pandemic headlines that opened his broadcast Wednesday evening: "The. The amount of times I have to see the same car ads have driven me to madness. they say he had two firearms and multiple magazines in a backpack. 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? Posted Tue 15 Apr 2014 at 8:00am Tuesday 15 Apr 2014 at 8:00am Tue 15 Apr 2014 at 8:00am, updated Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 3:13am Tuesday 22 Apr 2014 at 3:13am Tue 22 Apr . Commercial 1 17:35-18:35 Rinvoq for rheumatoid arthritis, commercial 3 19:05-19:35 Merck for HPV vaccination, commercial 4 20:40-21:40 Entyvio for Crohns ulcerative colitis, commercial 5 21:40-22:10 American Red Cross for blood donation, commercial 6 22:10-23:10 Otezla for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, commercial 7 23:10-23:30 Celebrity Family Feud and Press Your Luck, commercial 8 24:15-25:15 Eliquis for afib, commercial 9 25:15-25:35 Dulcolax for constipation, commercial 11 26:05-26:15 Aspercreme for aches and pains, commercial 12 26:15-27:15 Trulicity for type 2 diabetes, commercial 13 27:15 to 27:35 The Bachelor, A 60-something guy trying to figure out the world, and his place in it. Satelite tv never came thru with their promise. I listen to talk radio and in 1/2 hour there is about 16 minutes of commercials, the olympics on NBC is awful GET A GRIP ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS AND TV CHANNELSWE DO NOT WANT TO SEE SO DARN MANY COMMERCIALSPERIOD! Youre shelling out good money for the dubious privilege of being treated like a mindless consumer. According to Nielsen, advertisers spent $78 billion on TV commercials in 2013, compared to $64 billion in 2009. With Medicare enrollment going on right now its constant all day, it is sickening and unnecessary. I too use comm breaks for household tasks. Once you begin enjoying some of their wide variety of comm free programming, you will actually want to support them as well. Before writing a major complaint , check your facts. Old shows that ran 22 minutes per 1/2 hour are so cut up its almost unrecognizable. And yes, I dont like to think I am in the demographic that the advertisers are targeting during ABC news, but I guess I mist be. Picture that! That man is beyond handsome and bordering pretty. Cant get much worse! plus, a severe thunderstorm watch at this hour in parts of the south. Watch PBS, commercial free and you get actual news and not what a pundit thinks. I remember watching Blade and it took forever, completely ruined the film. It just made me pity the people who hung on its every word. About 25-30% of the tv show is not what we want to see. One thing that is ironic: I do enjoy some of those comedy commercials from time to time. So sick of the same stupid commercials on the comedy network The sheer number of commercials is mind numbing. By spending so much on ads, they have in essence bought the media. 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. ABC evening news viewership grew 16% to 7.6 million viewers in 2020, following an 11% increase in 2019. Have a date night at any hotel chain and tune in the their satellite TV in your room. But Ive had too much of advertising on TV. If you back out the time for teases thats even less time of actual news. The world of business is, in general, a very pathetic comment on the human state. The license to operate over the public airways comes with responsibilities-it was never meant to be Join. 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. So much Advertisement it covers every thing I want to read S12 E308 Tuesday, November 16, 2021. 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 So in terms of stand-alone campaign stories this year, it's been 234 minutes for Trump, compared to 10 minutes for Sanders. I am a senior who is furious with the many. That very first soap ad on TV eons ago screwed us. Really? Agreed theres an app and drug for virtually everything. In the past 30 days, ABC has had 12,460 airings and earned an airing rank of #30 with a spend ranking of #146 as compared to all other advertisers. That makes the amount of adverts par hour at 9 minutes. with no gadgets. That being NOT enough, they play commercials on the screen during the tv show. Not to mention that they are now speeding up the regular programming ever so slightly so they can squeeze in another mindless ad. Im just waiting until wireless internet gets up to speed and bye-bye Comcast altogether. For more news updates, . how the pilot navigated power lines and buildings. When it comes to commercial advertisements, I simply fast forward them. My wife mutes ALL commercials. 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. 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 that is still the case most of the channels are not following that. ABC David Muir News last 16 minutes 75% commercials Keep fast forward handy !!! Yes, I have to agree with you. The FCC? Just shut the box off. Do they think their veiwers are morons with large wallets? First, I watch ABC World News each evening and noticed there seemed to be a disparity to the timing of the commercials compared to regular broadcast TV, but had never put the effort into to researching my theory. yes, the repeating of the same headlines is quite annoying. ABC has been using a similar strategy to boost its numbers of "World News Tonight" by airing it live at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time on KABC in L.A. in addition to the traditional 6:30 p.m. timeslot. Believe it or not, once you get used to being patient enough to wait for a series to run its course, its really not that hard to do. Our obsession with money is at a disgusting level. Considering the first commercial did not come on until about 17 and a half minutes into the 29 minute show, that meant that 72% of the last 11 and a half minutes of the news were commercials. : Is there any address that I can send my feeling about how many commercials are being played at one time on Satellite TV. Well some of them at least. the network is pleased as punch to fill their ad space and rake in the revenue, while many other businesses are struggling, they are booming. 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. Recognize that this is a deductible business expense. So, tax dollars help pay for advertising! You show you have no respect for your customers. Senators/Representatives?. Cable companies are thieves and there is no bigger thief than Comcast. 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? "This week's episodes of Wheel of Fortune may be delayed or preempted for special coverage from ABC World News Tonight. 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. I had to switch to Lester Holt, lol (and theyve got a full medicine cabinet too of drug ads.) 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. When I lived in England, We hated to buy a license to watch the BBC. the news is in high overdrive right now, and the clients are capitalizing on this. I watched Big Sky TV show last week and timed the number of minutes. I hate commercials so much. Third, I dont know when, we as a society, decided that we would replace lifestyle choices to find better living through chemistry. Maybe we both need an additional hobby to fill the hours? How long before Hulu add increase to equal cable or ota tv? Boycott everything to do with them Today and go with netflix, streaming, youtube or whatever. Its no secret. I watch PBS for the majority of my shows. Thats why I have a dozen old remotes with worn out mute buttons. 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). Uhh, they do. I muted, changed channels, recorded and skipped the commercials (which, according to one network dipstick exec, is copyright infringement) which helped somewhat . It is sad to see the decline of newspapers, since I enjoy reading them, although now it is done mostly online. 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 . (+1) 202-419-4300 | Main 38 minutes before ABC news broke the story about Epstein's death it was already being reported on the infamous website 4chan.After learning of the post a review was conducted by the FDNY and they concluded none of their employees were behind the post on 4chan.9 months later and the mystery of who made that post is still alive and well.On . You have validated many of my own suspicions. I have two collector cars I tinker with. We are not getting the product, for which were paying for. I truly believe that Yellowstone episodes have the least amount of actual programming. Thanks for PBS and thanks for recordings. It costs for good internet, but Im done with cable TV. Years ago when HBO first came out there were no commercials. Greed. Disgusting! So depressing! 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. Its simply not worth the aggravation. Only drawbacks are the learning curve and sometimes erratic streams which are likely caused by shitty Armstrong cable. 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. A lawyer friend told us same lunch, that those drug companies had help put his children through college, med school and law school. The wash is started and I make my beds during the next commercials. Free TV has at least six minutes less time airing commercials than pay TV! Few if any commercials because that is what the monthly fee was for and there would be no need for commercials. a good 300 here ,but some not opened I always liked to watch internet movies I still have time to pour myself a cup of coffee. The frequent interruptions also add to our anger and frustration. Rather this boycott will only be effective and send a clear message to all those responsible for the low and poor quality of Television today if we stand united. GMA and other shows are guilty of pouring over 10 minutes of commercials continuously! I will start keeping a list of advertised merchandise and at least I can refuse to purchase the items interrupting my programs. I usually just keep switching channels, then after an hour or two, I just put some music on, something relaxing to bring down my ire from all of those terrible advertisements. The commercial breaks are like every 5 minutes! So now LETS ALL SPREAD THE WORD AND SHOW OUR UNITED POWER BY BEGINNING THE BOYCOTT OF CABLE TV THIS COMING THURSDAY OF JULY 1ST TO HELP SHOW THOSE JUST HOW SERIOUS AND DISSATISFIED WE THE PAYING PUBLIC HAVE BECOME AND HOW FIRM WE STAND AND PLAN TO MAKE OURSELVES HEARD ON THIS NEXT UPCOMING INDEPENDENCE DAY!!! 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. abbvie ceo richard gonzalez wife; how far is haddonfield, illinois from chicago you PAY for cable and they still hit you with a shitload of commercials every 7 minutes. Thank you for this I agree 100%. I am struck by a number of things from your research. Because i dont care how addicted you are to TV, the way this is going is pushing me away from the ordeal of it, and I know I cant be the only one. After seeing all to the ads here, I now think we could do the same. 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. When Mika says coming up, I rapidly tap the 30 second jump botton 8 times (4 minutes and Im good. Really!! I also pay for YouTube premium to avoid commercials. And another thing: The ads to support runaways, starving children (in every country), children with deformed lips or limbs, St Judes cancer hospital, desks and education of children in Africa, and abandoned and/or abused animals all for just $12/month or $19/month or $29/month. What will it accomplish? Yep, I cant watch the Golf Channel live any more. I pay $90 a month for Satellite TV so I guess I am the crazy one. I remember 10 years ago I didnt need a cable box to get HD tv direct to my set. Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. by Alexander Pope.