I dont watch regular television any more, not one damn show. Who is the DIM-WHIT that expects us to see light gray text on white? I have not watched TV for several years now. They should pay us to watch their commercials! For 1 hour shows same format. It is 4 AM, so I dont feel like researching this, maybe someone else will do the honors. Medicare Advantage, Sling TV are you ready now?, I just complain to Direct TV.. but there all laughing at us. I hit the mute first, then click back to blue blank off air channeltheyre right though, tooooo many commercials and Ive noticed within the last 60 days, its getting worsegrowl!!! you PAY for cable and they still hit you with a shitload of commercials every 7 minutes. Tonight I timed the last 15 minutes of the ABC nightly news. AARPs rival AMAC spends its money actually working on behalf of senior citizensnot wasting multiple millions on dishonest ads wooing unaware seniors to part with their money by joining AARP. Just finished the second episode of American Crime on ABC, I counted at least 6 minutes of commercials 4 times at least, possibly 5. ABC David Muir News last 16 minutes 75% commercials Keep fast forward handy !!! Every sitcom episode has a main plot (story A), as well as one or two subplots (stories B and C). Once you begin enjoying some of their wide variety of comm free programming, you will actually want to support them as well. 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. Last year, the average was 15 minutes and 38 seconds, up from 14 minutes and 27 seconds in 2009, according to the report. Still, I am paying good money for this bull-help is very much needed! I give it 3-4 minutes and switch back. GMA and other shows are guilty of pouring over 10 minutes of commercials continuously! Early on 30-minute tv shows were brought to you by one sponsor. Picture that! 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 think well have a casserole, so I can watch Dr. Phil at 4PM. Twice as many as CNN. No cable, and sometimes no over the air television either. Comcast has a new dirty trick. Theyll ride that horse until it drops dead on them. However, CBS This Morning has so many commercials, I have to hold the remote in my hand! I will mute the TV & go do something else or program the flashback button to TCM, where Im not subjected to mindless insurance, prescription drug and acne ads. And ABC is all about some crazy Hollywood stories-heaven help! I suppose whomever dies with the most money wins. I agree with all that is being said. The typical short commercial break during a television show is between 15 and 30 seconds while a standard advert is between 30 and 60 seconds. So much Advertisement it covers every thing I want to read The content lasting 15 seconds followed by 2.3 to 3.1 minutes of commercials. Ive became SO fed up with trying to watch a show (or movies) with the ever-increasing TSUNAMI of commercials, that I finally gave up trying to watch shows altogether on both broadcast and cable tv. or because they file a claim. End credits of tv shows were not interrupted by future shows. My sense is that many cable news are more than 1/4th consisting of ads. To whom should we forward our requests for relief from excessive TV advertising? My Doctor friend told me while eating lunch that if a drug was heavily advertised a patient should never, never ever take it. Just stopped watching MSNBC. You would think that with age comes wisdom and the fact that these people post here is a good tool for companies to get a feel of who they are dealing with and can make adjustments at different levels in an effort to keep these customers no matter what it takes. 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. The frequent interruptions also add to our anger and frustration. However, excessive commercials take away a lot from programs I enjoy. Most people simply live with it, of course. Many of them require additional paid subscriptions. No unsightly antenna on the roof or tower to maintain. (60 minutes of commercials per 3 hours allotted for a movie). Im pretty sure they have added at least 1.5 mins of commercials this year per hour. So cable gets paid from us and through commercials, and nobody is getting off cheap! The cable or sattlelite networks thinks that no one will ever do anything significant for them to worry. Ever since the :betamax, technology has only gotten better. I muted, changed channels, recorded and skipped the commercials (which, according to one network dipstick exec, is copyright infringement) which helped somewhat . 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. AARP lies & spends millions on its ads which flood the screen time after time, day in, day out. How many years of the rest of your life do you want to devote to advertisers? But Ive had too much of advertising on TV. He did this during his first days in office. A commercial every 3 to 4 minutes. Happens to me all the time, I have not paid nor watched any cable or satellite in a decade and im only 29, i will not ever pay for it unless the commmercials are removed or Drastically altered, i just will not do it. 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. Which means my 1 hour show was almost 20mins of commercials. 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. shows were paying for. Tell u folks Im a happy camper at 85!! with no gadgets. I cut the cord a year ago, in part because of the commercial load. Only then will they experience 1/100 of the misery the rest of us go through. The. I told my family and friends its time to shut it all down and watch C.D.s I have Thats why the only way we watch TV is to DVR the shows and fast forward through the commercials. I simply cant sit through a half hour sitcom for example, and watch 10-11 minutes of commercials. I watched Lone Survivor on demand on comcast After seeing all to the ads here, I now think we could do the same. In the US there are approximately eight or 8-1/2 minutes of commercials per half hour of broadcast television. I have just finished reading all of the comments above and not a single person is wrong! Too many adsfar too many dishonest ads & profligate lies, l4ies & more LIES! Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says. 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. Whew, that felt good to vent, thanks. Copy. 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. 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. Advertising is EVERYWHERE, blighting the landscape and the media. Too many commercials and JIVE ASS!! SOMETHING IS GOING TO CHANGE VERY SOON. NO COMMERCIALS NEEDED. 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. Happy profits and goodbye! Within a one hour show, there were 41 commercials Makes me glad I have a PVR so I can fast forward them. my money pay for ?My last Shaw Bill took 21 days to get to my Mail box. I can understand if it was free. Some of the actors had only their names listed (you actually saw them on the screen, but had no idea who they were) . Thereis no reason anyone has to subject himself/herself to Madison Avenue ad firms. I watched Big Sky TV show last week and timed the number of minutes. I usually always watch two shows at once , and sometimes itll be three , so when Commercials come on one I flip to the other. As soon the commercial comes on; I switch my tvs input to HDMI and block them out. There are only two countries that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. I havent watched commercials in years, since TIVO came out. When (if) they get a few thousand complaints every day about the length and frequency of television commercials, only then will they have a reason to involve themselves and do something about it. How long before Hulu add increase to equal cable or ota tv? 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. I have timed these commercials, and the number of commercials per one half hour and one hour shows. 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. Thats every hour! Thats the only thing they understand. The next commercials are in five minutes, allowing me plenty of time to polish the tables and start my laundry. If you watch a movie look up how long the movie is then look on the cable listing on how long its time slot is and youll see that up to 35% of the time is commercials not worth watching it really is getting bad. I believe he also told me that they were limited on how long the commercial breaks could be. greediest Coxxsuckers on the planet.WASTERS BIG TIME pharma ads suck dick. There are some, however, such as West Wing, which can be as long as 66 pages. In a one hour show, one is lucky to have 20 minutes of movie/tv show and 40 minutes of commercials. I spend my spare time with YouTube now. ABCs evening news will rush through their stories to give you the pharmaceutical commercials which are longer than any story segment. The standard length of a TV ad is 30 seconds long. I need ur help..what bis the standard rate of 2 minutes advertisement on TV and RADIO TNX.. 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. DVRing and then replaying shows has the same effect as if all watching viewed the commercials. 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 The other episodes were of comparable length. This is pathetic and we are paying for it! Im not real sure what you might do with these comments but pretty sure nothing will be done! *Includes, but not limited to AMC, Chiller, This, IFC, SyFi, TNT, and FX. it`s funny. Better yet watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or any of the other pay services. 90% of funds go into execs pockets, almost NOTHING goes to benefit the cause the charity was created to help. Movies same format. I say God bless TMC which runs entire classic movies without commercial interruption. My first time here. On cable there are about 10 full Because we put up with it ? The greed of TV networks has overrun our program viewing. WebStep 2. Thank God for Netflix and channels like HBO because paying to not have to see any commercials is more then worth it. I also mute all commercials. I never realised how much utter nonsense was on tv. Now you need a box so Comcast and like companies can not only control content but quality and up-charge for both. And when you watch a sitcom its worse by the time the show comes back you forgot where they left off. How is the word commercial defined? Power in numbers- organise and pull away from TV. It was making me psychotic. Ive taken to muting commercials. MANY TIMES, they simply show a complete hour of what they showed before many, many times.. opped.I use yo watch the View but commercials have overcome that show so I stopped.. You would think that I should be entitled to watch commercial free movies. 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. I pay a HUGE amount for cable, with no choice of the channels I receive. No ambulance chasers, no pill pill pushers, no car/home warranty sheisters. So each 1/2 hour show has 8 minutes or so of commercials. A lawyer friend told us same lunch, that those drug companies had help put his children through college, med school and law school. So for a 60-minute show, there would (on average) be a little over 15 minutes of commercials. I DVR EVERYTHING! However, what Ive found lately is that the commercials seem to be corresponding with each other I cant get a break. Ill copy and save it and try again if it does. In this insanely capitalistic nation, meaningful legislation to ease this torture is highly unlikely. In 2013, the percentage of 30-second ads fell to 53% and 15-second spots increased to 44%," the story reports. 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. What adds insult to injury is that my cable company wants me to pay for television channels that are riddled with commercials. 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. your lives will come back. my dad told me that there was an FCC regulation on how many commercials could be shown at one time. Its called Infomercial TV. Its just that, since we got cable TV, I only wash dishes during commercials. Frankly, Im tired of the Ford, Dodge, Chevy, Nissan, Toyota and Subaru commercials, as well as the Budweiser with its loud obnoxious screaming music. I sometimes just laugh at how the networks and cable do actually think we are all stupid. I still have time to pour myself a cup of coffee. Anyway, all these ads are expensive. 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. My hunch is that the 13-minute figure is way low! The next commercial is in four minutes and that gives me three minutes to run my sweeper and put it away. I am getting rid of the cable contract. CNN has a quality second to none in its content and news reporting There is no doubt about that. All it takes is a DVR or a PC and a liitle determination to flip-off the advertisers! So, sponsors became alternate week sponsors and now participating sponsor (an ad here an ad there). the programs are so cut up one cannot stay with the rhythm of the show or the plot is totally lost and or forgotten. i watch QVC and HSN because they dont show ads, I just wish there were more channels that would also stop running the ads. The commercials FINALLY ended! Is your bathroom closer to the TV? Shit ads for a shit show they ruined TV, No black actors except all blacks all gay ads WTF a campaign for WHO ? a good 300 here ,but some not opened I always liked to watch internet movies Its time for them to stop being so greedy, and provide a better version of the entertainment they claim to be providing. Its no secret. When i watch it i skip the commercials . If youre in the mood to write a lengthy diatribe anyway, you should ALL address your concerns to the only people who have the authority to do something about it: The FCC. I was watching a show the other night and decided to count the commercials.. Back in the day when I was a kid (a long time ago!) For kicks I sampled a number of popular channels* to see what the percentage of commercials to programming averaged. Dear sirs, I m assuming by your beautifully scripted reply that I do not understand, I may have caused great offence. Really? They play on average 16 to 18 commercials per spot, and there are usually 5 spots per one half hour show. What gives. Its horrible and disgusting. It is now July 13, 2022. With Medicare enrollment going on right now its constant all day, it is sickening and unnecessary. Now it is almost 50%. I can go the bathroom, make a sandwich, and finish it, and the commercials are still not over. Thats truly sad. 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. Judge Judy has 17-18 minutes of commercials in an hour of programming which consists of two 30 minute shows. So freaking stupid. 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. had three commercial breaks; the first break ran nearly 6 minutes with 15 different commercials, starting with a promo for TV Land's Happily Divorced. Its outrageous! Commercial creep was a factor in my decision to dump cable altogether in favor of ad-free streaming services. On top of that they show the same 3-4 commercials over and over again ON EVERY BREAK. If the 13-minute figure was accurate I would only see a commercial when I turn the TV on once in four times. We not only are paying for cable, but also giving them 20-25 minutes of our time. Ha! I have 30 second jump on my remote. 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. When it comes to commercial advertisements, I simply fast forward them. You and all other TV program distributors odd to be ashamed of yourselves, but most likely it is an ability you dont have. Whether it happens or not depends. These days, I find myself watching General Hospital less and less. Think about it. Best Answer. Senators/Representatives?. Fox news is just as bad, as in MSNBC. I just counted 23 commercials in HALF of a half hour show! This is in Canada using telus. The number came out to 25 minutes of commercials and just over 22 minutes of actual show. None are worth the bombardment of their 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. Week after week same thing its so stupid and the same ones over and over on the same Show! Absolutely! Start hitting them where it hurts the most, in the pocketbook. I have kept it for my husband, who loves sports. But truth be told, customer satisfaction is no longer a meaningful factor. 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. When they offer a discount, tell them you do want the discount and you want it to be retroactive and be applied to your service that you have already paid for up to this point. As most ad breaks are either 2, 3 or 3 https://sites.google.com/view/hotel-managements/home. Fox News among others obviously doesnt care how bad they are pissing off the viewers with outlandish commercial time vs programming! Increase in commercials? Have noticed commercial are the same for over a year. 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