I also pay for YouTube premium to avoid commercials. I only noticed it because some of the shows I was watching seemed to be going unusually ABRUPTLY from show to commercial. I agree with all that is being said. WE ARE RETIRED, TV IS GETTING WORSE. Last Sunday we tried to watch the ABC Sunday night Movie. I actually watched a Friends episode specifically for the purpose of timing the commercials. If released more timely and news team just slowed it down a touch, this could be the best news podcast/sound bite in the US. You cannot watch more than 6 minutes of content before you get 5 min and 15 commercials. Gone are adverts for restaurant chains, holidays, airways and now we have health insurance and all other insurances and banks. But maybe they had a good idea by eliminating the commercials. I watch PBS for the majority of my shows. 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. Shit ads for a shit show they ruined TV, No black actors except all blacks all gay ads WTF a campaign for WHO ? Want to know why you get maybe 20 minutes of news and tons of advertising? John. Ive noticed the same thing with the teasers; it seems like a good five minutes of the news is talking about whats coming up later in the show. How about socializing insurance instead of socializing health care? So in terms of stand-alone campaign stories this year, it's been 234 minutes for Trump, compared to 10 minutes for Sanders. We are not getting the product, for which were paying for. Or the top 10% should be helping. Thats the only thing they understand. If you think tv is that bad and dont like it that much then why dont you just stop watching it? Greed. A 60-something guy trying to figure out the world, and his place in it. No commercials{netflix}, cheaper, limitied choice yes but your not supposed to be watching that much damn tv in the first place. 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!) Its time to switch..thank you for your research, I was about to do similar tracking, but it wouldnt have been nearly as meticulous as yours! 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. What a joke $$$$ all that money spent and these idiots , that is all you can do? They are spending billions on ads, money that they take from customers, for in many cases REQUIRED BY LAW that people purchase. Fox used to be on our main satellite provider but pulled out of it as ratings were very low it seems we do have standards here , I used to watch occasionally it was good for a laugh, and probably for raising your blood pressure. In the past month, I have actually enjoyed only 3 commercials out of hundreds. The series, along with Jeopardy!, had to halt production due to the coronavirus. Those companies are fools because millions of people are not watching their commercials. time slot to show 1.5/1.75 hour movie . Its been WAY out of control for far too long. over the years its got worse, now Yes it is pathetic how many commercials that are on TV especially when they repeat the same commercial over and over during the break of the same thing. S12 E308 Tuesday, November 16, 2021. Things have got change , I pay to much for cable to be watching all these commercials. Just watch the chiller channel. No telling how long the news will actually last. people are trapped in their homes and worried about what is going on. Bless you and your formula for resisting consumer propaganda. Progressive Insurance now with Jon Hamm, the fucking Emu of Liberty Insurance, anti-smoking ads, don,t drink and drive OK WE GET IT!, Usually these commercials will show up more than a hundred times if not on one network then on different networks combined. And, despite what you might think, there is most definitely a Law of Synchronized Commercials! 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. NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE YOURSELVES HEARD AS ONE UNITED VOICE! Network TV news appointment viewing for many Americans saw its audience increase somewhat across networks in 2020. .more .more 3 years ago 79K views 5 years ago 2. 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. According to the data, A&E Group 17 minutes and . For profit, pro-corporate news will never deliver anything approaching the truth. NO COMMERCIALS NEEDED. Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. Im tired of being brainwashed with all the stupidity of the ads being shown. How do I block your stupid add programs??? If you are interested, here is the rough timeline of the commercials on World News Tonight, where the numbers represent the number of minutes and second into the show that the ad was on. Early on 30-minute tv shows were brought to you by one sponsor. the companies are spending on these ad buys, because they know the numbers support this. But now I always have my remote in my hand. Start up your car and wait until the ice melts off of all wind shields. I wasnt going to bother contributing to this bitch-fest, but decided to post this comment after reading yours. 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. Why dont they take the billions of $$$ blown on frivolous advertising, lower their rates accordingly and maybe save their customers some real money ? It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. in contrast, just look at the printed news, a shadow of its former self, all due to loss of ad revenue having moved to an online format, and lack of volume of people who read a real paper anymore, other than a demo of mostly oldies like myself. Why? Yes, we have optionsshut the box off! Owned stations had already been airing repeats of "World News Tonight" early in the morning as well, similar to what both CBS and NBC do on . We the public get it. ), Advertiser expenditures for the evening broadcast news programs ABCs World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News each rose in 2020, according to estimates from Kantar. When Mika says coming up, I rapidly tap the 30 second jump botton 8 times (4 minutes and Im good. I do stream Netflix and Hulu along with Amazon as I have a Prime membership. Same with corrupt Clinton Foundations & fat cat overpaid, underperforming execs. Youre right, Id rather not see those commercials! I truly believe that Yellowstone episodes have the least amount of actual programming. I can no longer pay for TV and have more minutes of advertising than a program I am canceling my Direct TV. 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. I promise you that over 15 minutes of the half hour show was ad time. They show more and more commercials, I watch less and less TV. I need an app that will automatically write a clever, witty, and thought-provoking blog for me every day, Hahaha other way around, I think you should be writing the app , Im not sure if even I would download an app I created . Their news is factual. What does that say? Thanks for listening. Whether it happens or not depends. This is a very different Hillary Clinton to the managed political performer. I feel impressed with your thorough research. 3- I would imagine buying a new TV will not be a priority for most people. And ABC is all about some crazy Hollywood stories-heaven help! "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. Its simply not worth the aggravation. Thats truly sad. The amount of commercial time on cable TV keeps increasing as networks try to make up for shrinking audiences by stuffing more ads into every hour of television. I pay a HUGE amount for cable, with no choice of the channels I receive. If that is still the case most of the channels are not following that. It makes me not want to watch TV. I do NOT have a personal relationship with my insurer (geico lizards be damned). How to really enjoy CNN as a male news junkie. Of course companies would target the products at the right market, that makes sense. Liberty ads are really annoying too, with all that loud repetitive background music.. Popular here during day time quiz shows. Cut the cable, put up an antenna, and add a streaming service. 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. 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's crazy," said Westbrook, who started and had 17 points, 14 assists and seven turnovers in 39 minutes before fouling out with 1:49 remaining in the second overtime. Then the total commercial load is closer to 50%. Last year, the average was 15 minutes and 38 seconds, up from 14 minutes and 27 seconds in 2009, according to the report. oversight agencies and they are on a path to kill the golden goose. Can forget HGTV and a number of other stations. I remember watching Blade and it took forever, completely ruined the film. Kick your cable TV to the curb. What bothers me most is that a number of networks edit as much as 15 minutes from a movie to steal the time for advertising! 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. this allows you to watch the program without commercials,,,,program is now 40 minutes rather than one hour. Youre shelling out good money for the dubious privilege of being treated like a mindless consumer. You would think that I should be entitled to watch commercial free movies. I do not have a DVR, but I do have start-over with my cable box. I rarely watch TV now because frankly, its far too damned annoying. MY GOOD GOD so much time is wasted on non-programs, the very programs we PAY to watch. jim, your logs and stats are to be admired. No unsightly antenna on the roof or tower to maintain. CNN has gone totally political now, with the anchors boasting their ideas-not the publics. Love the analysis. During that time period, there were 13 commercials, totaling about 8 minutes and 15 seconds. Personally I DVR everything or will pause for 15-20 minutes and go do something then come back and fast scan past them. Many times the broadcasters are presenting it in a way that helps them to persuade viewers. 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. Old shows that ran 22 minutes per 1/2 hour are so cut up its almost unrecognizable. I agree with you on the number of commercials but you are insinuating that RA is an old folk disease. You truly expect me to believe that, as 3 commercial breaks have occurred while I have been searching for the comment button, and typing all this, GMA and other shows are guilty of pouring over 10 minutes of commercials continuously! THERE IS A SOLUTION SUPPORT AND WATCH PBS! In my eyes youre asking for it and you blindly go through life thinking you have a day or your voices matter but you never seem to understand that your money is the only voice they hear. Many in Oakland woke up to some wild . I was watching a 1951 episode of the Adventures of Superman..guess how long the actual run time was..28.50 minutes exactly. ABC World News Tonight provides viewers the latest news and analysis of major events from around the . .. .. .. your lives will come back. My hunch is that the 13-minute figure is way low! 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. It was making me psychotic. To pound in more commercials, why else! .. .. .. Sure they will laugh but if enough people start calling and demanding this, IT WILL GET DONE. Then proceed to the bathroom and complete the three Ss, ending with a shower. Only then will they experience 1/100 of the misery the rest of us go through. I limit my TV view on cable to mostly free movies on certain channels Tha t have no commercials. they say he had two firearms and multiple magazines in a backpack. If I decide the program is special enough to want to keep a copy, I burn it to either a DVD-R or a BD (Blu-ray) blank and file it away in my library after editing out the commercial breaks. Bravo, Sir! Be not a sheep. Same as the Toll Bridge myth. I am sorry if I have caused any offence. I looked this up and wrote this while waiting for some actual news on CNN. World News Tonight averaged 9.6 million total viewers, a drop of 2% from 9.8 million in the first quarter a year earlier, a period marked by the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and a. 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? I have learned to be very good at commercial cleaning. 25 states from colorado to maine on alert. But I am finished paying for commercials. That's despite years of. 50 minutes of musice and then 10 of comercials . I rarely watch TV before it is time for the evening news (unless it is for sports on weekends) I also stay away from Fox, since I fear you are correct, I watch more in the day than I should, but often just keep it on for background noise. Stop or sign up for some online service. 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. There are no actual reporters anymore WHO TRULY FIND THE NEWS AND DEVELOP IT What burns me up the most are the small viewer days like Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Totally agree, abc is out of control! Either lower the amount of COMMERCIALS to no more than 25% or have them send your TV Bill to the Networks. Tune in to CNN and imeadiatly set the pause button. That man is beyond handsome and bordering pretty. This is pathetic and we are paying for it! (Average audience is defined as the average number of TVs tuned to a program throughout a time period.). I could be interested in watching them but stopped watching. No and now Frontier has added a fast forward rejection for commercials. He did this during his first days in office. I was inspired to come on line here after a deluge of ads on BBC America. The rates go up, service goes down. So there was only 20 minutes of the actual show. I only use the TV for DVD movies where I can fast forward over the name promoting actors, director, etc. Now they get 4 commercials for the same price. They are useless annoyances. (+1) 202-419-4300 | Main Flood the FTC with complaints about this issue. Put that money toward your cause and stop making us all feel guilty over stuff we cant really change. January 25, 2022. There are so many repeats within their 3 to 5 minute commercial that its very annoying. 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. I cant wait until the return of normal commercials for junk food and beer! Even if a dvr or fast forward is used, the actual story of the show has been cut. What adds insult to injury is that my cable company wants me to pay for television channels that are riddled with commercials. Do they think the cable providers care if you are watching? GET A GRIP ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS AND TV CHANNELSWE DO NOT WANT TO SEE SO DARN MANY COMMERCIALSPERIOD! Heres a perfect example: one of my all-time favorite sitcoms, MASH, is re-run on three different cable networks throughout any weekday. To whom should we forward our requests for relief from excessive TV advertising? Disgusting! Maybe we are all that old and broken down! It is getting to the point where we watch a lot less tv about ready to drop cable. But it is so not worth the huge fees. Just stopped watching MSNBC. 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. The next commercials are in five minutes, allowing me plenty of time to polish the tables and start my laundry. MSNBC has a commercial break every thirty seconds now, and you are right, we are the mindless ones but I cant find an alternative. He could be the next Bond Have a great one looks like a good day for a ride. However, we did Cut The Cable and revert to Digital antennae, Or Free TV, or Poor TV, as we call it LOL. It helps to see like-minded people as fed up with the frequency and excessive amount of stupid, inane ads as I. Back in the day when I was a kid (a long time ago!) So depressing! 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. Dont they realize theyre alienating their customer base? 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. These commercials but stopped watching case most of the misery the rest of us through! A campaign for WHO will never deliver anything approaching the truth enough people start and. 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