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. Really, is that too much to ask? We all shop for these products, so why hit us with all the same ads? oversight agencies and they are on a path to kill the golden goose. (Because no one would watch it of their own choice proving were not interested in them)! Who is the DIM-WHIT that expects us to see light gray text on white? 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. However, what Ive found lately is that the commercials seem to be corresponding with each other I cant get a break. The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. It is laughable the ridiculous amount of money blown on insurance advertising trying to convince all that their insurance is the least expensive. News 40-60 seconds news then cut to 4 minutes of ads. NO COMMERCIALS NEEDED. I agree, I will never want to buy some product that I been forced to hear about every night over and over. And many times, I wont bother to switch it back. How to really enjoy CNN as a male news junkie. 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. I was watching a 1951 episode of the Adventures of Superman..guess how long the actual run time was..28.50 minutes exactly. Every time I see that pillow commercial I yell out Take your pillow and shove it up your ass. I have not watched TV for several years now. Free TV has at least six minutes less time airing commercials than pay TV! The greed of TV networks has overrun our program viewing. I am tired of all the feminine and hygiene products such as, tampon, bra, panty and the other commercials. And we get more commercial ads then ever. Stop the ads ..we are sick of them where are the t.v.shows with out sooo many ads. I just counted 23 commercials in HALF of a half hour show! 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. 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. Maybe theyre on a lot more, but we just cant watch all the channels at once. Old shows that ran 22 minutes per 1/2 hour are so cut up its almost unrecognizable. The IRS doesnt have commercials. If people like ads that much let them get a channel that plays nothing but ads. As a former radio production engineer, I cannot tolerate the current ratio of commercials to music and have abandoned listening to radio entirely. Ready to go back to broadcast TV. 1- Many commercials are dumb as a stump at best. Best thing we ever did. Tell u folks Im a happy camper at 85!! That way I can select what to watch,or, delete the programs entirely. shows were paying for. Commercial creep was a factor in my decision to dump cable altogether in favor of ad-free streaming services. 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. There are some, however, such as West Wing, which can be as long as 66 pages. We are the consumer and if we impact that which we are so unreceptive to by not watching surely TV executives will deal with it in a manner that will be acceptable by us. But Ive had too much of advertising on TV. In an ideal world, a commercial rating would be the precise number of viewers who saw a TV spot, whether it ran for one 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 . Plus no one is going to produce a quality TV show if the TV stations dont have any money. Do they think the cable providers care if you are watching? Write and send your complaints to the FCC. Thanks for listening. Picture that! TV and if I see a commercial promoting anything, I dont buy that product. Comcast has a new dirty trick. They show a lot of old 80s and 90s sitcoms on Saturday and Sundays. As yet they have not choreographed their commercials to run concurrently which I find to be a blessing. Shelters dont have enough supply to meet the demand. Thats when I wash any dishes in the sink. Especially, during General Hospital. My hunch is that the 13-minute figure is way low! This might be a good thing as we free ourselves from the idiot box and start taking in our surroundings. Notice that insurance companies (looking at you geico, liberty, allstate, farmers, general, etc.) Just shut the box off. 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? These commercial messages account for 36% of MUCH more productive. Copy. Its all a matter of scheduling your day!!! Lying crooks! I had seen the excellent movie Jack Reacher, and recommended it to friendsI saw it was coming on FX, so called them to watch itI was so mad when all we got were interviews we had no interest in, so many commercials breaks that you couldnt remember what movie you were watching, and two brainless idiots telling us what the movie was about..DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!! The next commercial is in four minutes; I set up my vacuum and pick up newspapers and shoes that are cluttering the floor. Once, I timed a 30-minute local newscast: 12 minutes of commercials!! Just finished watching the newest Bates Motel even though i recorded and was skipping commercials I was baffled at how many times i had to hit the 30 second skip. One more thing I noticed was the posts tend to be written by older people, mostly women. To pound in more commercials, why else! It is merely a place for the broadcasters to offer an opinion or guests who push them or the show SO THAT THEY GET PAID. about the animals it claims to saveBig Pharma pushes deadly meds likely to harm or kill those who use them.. CARE, UNICEF, Save The Children, Clinton Foundations all LIE about what they doexecs get 90% or more of every donated dollar for themselves & almost NOTHING goes to the cause itself. The number of commercials shown in a typical hour of television has increased steadily over the past five years, the Los Angeles Times Company Town reports, citing a study from Nielsen. So in addition to the parts of the program that were originally chopped out to accommodate more ads, now the program start times have been offset to accommodate even MORE ads! your lives will come back. GREED IS OUT OF CONTROL!! I remember watching Blade and it took forever, completely ruined the film. Blame Disney! A study published by the Los Angeles Times reported that advertisers spent $78 billion on television commercials in 2013 nearly a 22 percent increase from the $64 billion spent There is an insidiousness about this. 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. DVRing and then replaying shows has the same effect as if all watching viewed the commercials. Additionally, I find that very often, time is cut from the movie or program to make space for even more commercials! All tv outlets are doing this now, Logo airs Fresh Prince in 45min blocks. I still have time to pour myself a cup of coffee. I subscribe to Sling for sports, but will be cutting that as well,in a day or two. 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. I never knew, for example, that insurance and animals were closely related. As soon the commercial comes on; I switch my tvs input to HDMI and block them out. It helps to see like-minded people as fed up with the frequency and excessive amount of stupid, inane ads as I. Uhh, they do. In the past month, I have actually enjoyed only 3 commercials out of hundreds. WebFor the 22 minute comedy sitcoms, they're usually structured to have 2 acts. My wife mutes ALL commercials. You would think that I should be entitled to watch commercial free movies. I pay a HUGE amount for cable, with no choice of the channels I receive. I suppose whomever dies with the most money wins. Either lower the amount of COMMERCIALS to no more than 25% or have them send your TV Bill to the Networks. There are thousands of complaints about the excessive commercials the TV networks are running. what cat we do to stop it! They dont see people they see $ sign, Online streaming services surpassed television. Zero stories about how insurance companies rob citizens, then penalize them because their credit scores go down (huh?) I seem to recall that Saint Ronald Reagan deregulated, along with much else, the maximum commercial time on television. Many of them require additional paid subscriptions. I have been muting ALL TV commercials (and radio) for over 30 years and as far as I know, the ONLY advertised item I have ever bought was over twenty years ago when I purchased a tele-zapper which was a device that when installed on the incoming phone line sent out a signal to telemarketers that indicated the phone was disconnected which would start the process of eliminating unwanted phone calls. We the public get it. the average 1 hour show has 17-18 minutes of advertisements. ASPCA LIES & grossly misleads in its ads. I say God bless TMC which runs entire classic movies without commercial interruption. Cant get much worse! I named the Terracotta Army as a Tattoo choice because of its grand complexity. 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!!! 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. I rarely look at Just watch the chiller channel. Post A Comment. m. The real concern for American citizens is the lack of FCC and State Commerce agency oversight . I believe the 30 minutes of nightly news has more than 10 minutes of ads. I looked this up and wrote this while waiting for some actual news on CNN. WebYou begin and end them as you would a sitcom, however there are no scene breaks. It was never my intention to offend anyone other than news broadcasters that consider their viewers required 15 or 16 minutes of advertisements during their single hour of veiwing. The End Is Near for Free TV. Even sports broadcasts have become painful to me Id rather follow the score in an app and catch the highlights later. Then tell them to just mail the refund check to you and they can find that info on the page showing your cancellation as of today. Frankly, Im tired of the Ford, Dodge, Chevy, Nissan, Toyota and Subaru commercials, as well as the Budweiser with its loud obnoxious screaming music. Which means my 1 hour show was almost 20mins of commercials. 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. I video taped most of the TV movies; sports and news. Then proceed to the bathroom and complete the three Ss, ending with a shower. I do not have a DVR, but I do have start-over with my cable box. MSNBC has a commercial break every thirty seconds now, and you are right, we are the mindless ones but I cant find an alternative. These channels wont keep discriminating audiences for very long at the rate they are going down the road to commercialization. If only we could return to those halcyon days before big pharma was allowed TV ads. When they begin showing Commercials during these broadcasts.I will just laugh and laugh! In fact the entire ad biz irks me greatly. The trend is 4-6 minutes of show and 5 minutes of commercial.and on and on. It sure does. The commercial breaks are like every 5 minutes! Thanks for all of your time & work. I have two collector cars I tinker with. 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. I turn off the sound and get up and do something around the house during the times (at the end of the hour) when there are the most commercials between shows. The FCC? The sheer number of commercials is mind numbing. My very biggest gripe is what FEW channels I did have, ABC, CBS, NBC, and especially heartbreaking, as it was my favorite channel, TNT,. CNN devotes up to 12 commercial in its quick breaks. But maybe they had a good idea by eliminating the commercials. It didn`t take any time at all for greed to step into that game. Thanks for listening. Morning Joe is the worse. Stop or sign up for some online service. I canceled cable last year and have Hulu Netflix and amazon. Boycott Cable, even CNN, there is no other way they will learn. 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. If that is still the case most of the channels are not following that. I have 30 second jump on my remote. I watched Lone Survivor on demand on comcast 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. So freaking stupid. Back in the day when I was a kid (a long time ago!) The Liberty Insurance ads are on at least 200 times a day. I guess we all should encourage the commercials . Every sitcom episode has a main plot (story A), as well as one or two subplots (stories B and C). So much Advertisement it covers every thing I want to read Im just waiting until wireless internet gets up to speed and bye-bye Comcast altogether. 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. Just what are commercial ratings? The. Personally I DVR everything or will pause for 15-20 minutes and go do something then come back and fast scan past them. too many commercials, I remember the day when I looked forward to turning on the TV to relax now I just stare at a black screen trying to decide if I want to deal with all crap advertisers think I need. There are only two countries that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. An ad for donations for contraception medications or products would be a more logical plea for struggling populations not money to feed abandoned and unwanted children. ABC David Muir News last 16 minutes 75% commercials Keep fast forward handy !!! PBS. Ever since the :betamax, technology has only gotten better. 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. As more markets open and good ones turn bad, whether due to buyouts or greed, the cycle continues on without any possible signs of slowing or changing simply because they know they can do whatever they want and you cant do anything to change it. There were only 2 1/2 minutes of commercials during the show and one minute between shows (station break). 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. Mainly because of the time allotted for commercials. Not only is commercials outrageous but the volume goes up during the commercials. Years ago when HBO first came out there were no commercials. I too refuse to buy anything theyre selling my dad told me that there was an FCC regulation on how many commercials could be shown at one time. Now its mainly Pawn Stars and other such rubbish. Senators/Representatives?. Other platforms are simply waiting for their popularity to gain momentum before they make big changes. We are not getting the product, for which were paying for. So 90 minute program equals to 70-75 minutes, and 2 hour program at 84-88 minutes. i stopped watching tv for over two years now and havent missed it at all !!!!!!!!! I watch Antenna TV network on the weekends, which is a non cable TV channel. I always mute them, I will come back into the room just to mute them. Had to quit watching. No commercials. Satelite tv never came thru with their promise. 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. On that date it is IMPORTANT not to allow yourself to be sold yet again a cheaper package that they may offer which will only come back to haunt us all again. @Mr.Zinda: These breaks run Who can resist Martha cooking up something delicious.. 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. Too many channels, too many commercials is killing tv. if the public hated the show, the sponsor was screwed. 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. I truly believe that Yellowstone episodes have the least amount of actual programming. Ill copy and save it and try again if it does. As most ad breaks are either 2, 3 or 3 Boy, I cant wait for track and field, Just comment on Comcast cable TV- Well some of them at least. 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. For fun yesterday I counted how many commercials played during break the average is 10 up to 13 that is crazy. i watch QVC and HSN because they dont show ads, I just wish there were more channels that would also stop running the ads. Have been watching over the air channels for a year because cable is a rip off. The practice continues because it works and again, it is a necessary component of the business model. Funny because I have recently noticed that the commercials are growing there too. The Journals analysis found that commercials took up about an hour, or one-third, of the game. television shows. We were happier without the darn crap on TV anyhow. May 13, 2014 The number came out to 25 minutes of commercials and just over 22 minutes of actual show. I never realised how much utter nonsense was on tv. our shows.. Stop watching TV or rent movies. Oh, and lets not forget when Martin Savage was run into the ground OVER and OVER again with the guy in the mock-up cockpit of a Boeing 767 to make news stories well after the fact when the airplane went down in the Indian Ocean. a marketing resource.. Thats an average of one commercial break every two minutes. 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. then utter greed took over and they pretend it;s because of freedom of something or other!! ..and its getting worse, the story says. Before he goes back to sleeping on the job waiting for the emu to wake him, THEY WONT LISTEN TO REASON!!! I recently got a flyer from a cable company offering some big deal special and when I looked at the channels offered there were only 3 that I would have even considered watching. Then Comcast will be forced once again to treat their customers with respect as they used to. There must be a better solution if they want to keep any viewers. It makes me not want to watch TV. 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. Im also in development of a product that auto-mutes commercials, as the existing products out there that auto-mute dont work for long. Helen -you are ingenious! About 25-30% of the tv show is not what we want to see. Plus DVRing all TV shows is the way to do it. Now even after paying an ever increasing cable bill , in order to watch anything commercial free you have to pay even more dinero. Here in UK we get 3 minute add break every 12-15 minutes and on BBC, there are no adverts. When it comes to commercial advertisements, I simply fast forward them. 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. Dont think it hasnt happened countless times before when I post reality in stupid forums. More time spent on ads than on the story itself. Eight minutes of movie to nine minutes of ads I timed it! 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!) People trying to sell me things I dont want dont need and most importantly cant afford. It is now July 13, 2022. I remember why cable tv started.. I also use the mute button but, Im tired of that as well. Whether it happens or not depends. Be not a sheep. The price for this great deal was only $49.00 a month. 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. Every time I see the POTUS, I expect it will the first time for there to be some trash corporate logo on the presidential lectern. How about socializing insurance instead of socializing health care? Same with ASPCA, UNICEF, CARE, wasteful charities. Too bad great show, couldnt wait for season 2, wont be watching it on ABC. On the TV guide will be 5 or more channels sheerly for products being sold. With Medicare enrollment going on right now its constant all day, it is sickening and unnecessary. Only way to avoid ads is via Amazon Prime or similar subscriptions. Why should Brother printers bother with TV ads when they know Epson has already ruined the printer market for anything but business use, so they buy ads in tech oriented fields and minimize costs and by doing so, they are not hated by the general public for running nonstop ads elsewhere that wont increase sales anyway. Absolute bullshit. I pride myself on having this information. On the other network with the normal start and end times, Ive noticed scenes from the show that were chopped out in order to insert more commercials! It costs for good internet, but Im done with cable TV. 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. A typical TV show is usually approximately 22 minutes for every 1/2 hour of time. 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. The myth was that you would pay for cable in order to be free from commercial interruption. Regarding Netlfix There are plenty of good shows to watch and as long as you dont binge watch them you dont have to worry about running out of stuff, although there search feature is crap and can be hard to find new good shows, they are there somewhere lurking and if you get lucky you can spot one lol. By spending so much on ads, they have in essence bought the media. I have been researching, all I really wanted was the History Channel and the news but they cut the better of the history channels!!! Remember when a cable subscription meant no commercials? I would think thats advertiser deception and probably prohibited by law. Start up your car and wait until the ice melts off of all wind shields. 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