Do many of the drug names sound the same? Thanks for PBS and thanks for recordings. Power in numbers- organise and pull away from TV. I guess its my fault since I am about eight months away from enrolling. I record all the shows I want to watch so that I can fast forward commercials. Now end credits are zapped SO FAST one cannot see who did what or who was who on the screen. Tonight she made history again, becoming the first elected incumbent in 40 years to not win a second term. I am trying to watch Forensic Files and just when they are getting to a juicy part commercials come on between 5 and 8 at at time. Youre dumb. You can connect with ABC on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Complete waste of news time. Price was getting out of hand and there was new under the sun. You have to factor in all of the late night infomercials as well. For many cruise passengers, bars play a pretty large role in their . I to, have never bought a prodect that has been adderverised. Those 500 channels we supposedly get are duplicates and triplicates. Can you imagine if we only have all these boring institutions left after lockdown. 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 . Very clever. (+1) 202-857-8562 | Fax I remember watching Blade and it took forever, completely ruined the film. I was watching a show the other night and decided to count the commercials.. I am a senior who is furious with the many. Please correct me if I am wrong. 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. 4. I assume its a matter of financial survival or rather profit-growing to keep investors interested in supporting the model. But I am glad you reminded me about the brick-counting Ive got to get back to that , Havevat it. Totally agree, abc is out of control! 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. Virtually all of the commercials were in good taste, the one. The irony is that consumer based propaganda (ads) helps sell the political propaganda that frequently masquerades as news. I had to shake my head as I read this. The next commercial is in four minutes and that gives me three minutes to run my sweeper and put it away. 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. 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. So, instead of only taking the amount needed to cover legitimate claims, they take additional billions for advertising as well as for corporate profit. I do stream Netflix and Hulu along with Amazon as I have a Prime membership. The total time spent on previewing the story ends up being just as long as the story itself. If youre curious, the other four commercials were for Geico, Celebrity Family Feud/Press Your Luck, IBM, and The Bachelor. Those drug commercials are eye-opening. 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. And for those of you willing to cross to the dark side, theres Kodi. We paid to watch TV, not the advertisers. They just bold faced lied about the border problems. Thanks, Beth. But the real problem is advertisements ,yes Its big money for someone So just what does The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. Youre right, Id rather not see those commercials! Its not like there isnt PLENTY of other things to watch in the meantime! EVERYONE UNITE! First I agree with you about David Muir. 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. How do I block your stupid add programs??? 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!!! Too many commercials and JIVE ASS!! What adds insult to injury is that my cable company wants me to pay for television channels that are riddled with commercials. Best solution. I pay a HUGE amount for cable, with no choice of the channels I receive. It is sad to see the decline of newspapers, since I enjoy reading them, although now it is done mostly online. Thank God for Netflix and channels like HBO because paying to not have to see any commercials is more then worth it. DVRing and then replaying shows has the same effect as if all watching viewed the commercials. 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. 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. As advertisements increase the Cable Companys are making a bundle so there comes a time when the Cable Companys should no longer charge the consumer. 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). 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. More than 1/3 of early voters were aged 65 and older. Free TV has at least six minutes less time airing commercials than pay TV! "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir will have an exclusive interview with former Vice President Mike Pence. 5 mins of news 10 mins of commercials, they obviously need to pay for those big salaries, BS, BS, BS, a bunch of sell outs!!! I noticed that a long time ago. Some of the programmes are mind-numbing so I try to avoid those! In Duncan B.C. Doing this makes me even madder knowing that these folk lie to their advertisers about live viewer numbers. I get Amazon Prime free because Im a member (and use Amazon to order a lot of stuff). And then they tack on equipment rental and a laundry list of other fees. Freedom from commercials was the carrot they offered to switch from broadcast tv cable tv . "This week's episodes of Wheel of Fortune may be delayed or preempted for special coverage from ABC World News Tonight. 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. Helen -you are ingenious! I no longer watch them unless desperate. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. TV and if I see a commercial promoting anything, I dont buy that product. Thank goodness for tv remote mute button! they say he had two firearms and multiple magazines in a backpack. House party ending in gunfire leads to 3 teens shot, 1 injured: HCSO . This Microsoft Office 365 Feature Sums Up the Current State of Politics in the U.S. The commercial breaks are like every 5 minutes! I cant wait until the return of normal commercials for junk food and beer! Recognize that this is a deductible business expense. So, tax dollars help pay for advertising! Hit them in their bank account. 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!!! There is no escape. 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. That set the template for everything that has happened since then, and somehow people have forgotten it. I tuned into my local ABC affiliate at around 6:45 PM this evening to catch the remainder of ABC World News Tonight with David Muir. IM GONE. PBS! 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. MSNBC has a commercial break every thirty seconds now, and you are right, we are the mindless ones but I cant find an alternative. You cannot watch more than 6 minutes of content before you get 5 min and 15 commercials. Denzel Lafayette, of North Adams, Mass., was 22 when he drove to Bennington to . That makes the amount of adverts par hour at 9 minutes. Greed has no inhibitions. I have never ,and I mean never have bought one thing that Ive seen on a commercial. Great observations, Jim. Choose to have the Teracota Army stencilled on your back and wait for it to heel. greediest Coxxsuckers on the planet.WASTERS BIG TIME pharma ads suck dick. 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 watch PBS for the majority of my shows. Thats when I wash any dishes in the sink. I watched an hour of ABC last evening and the 10 (count em) ads came on every 10 minutes! The average time actually spent viewing the show was 6-7 minutes between commercials. Majority aimed at senior citizens cheaply produced forms of insurance. Theyre the ones who make the rules for both TV stations AND advertisers. Detroit local channel, 2.5 hr. 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. It is totally stupid to waste money on commercials that are longer than An aging, and not healthy, tribeTheres an opportunity for entrepreneurs here somewhere. 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. 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! It seems the news interrupts a stream of hideous car ads etc. Try it. Not only is commercials outrageous but the volume goes up during the commercials. I cant recommend it highly enough. 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. 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. Great piece, Jim. There is an insidiousness about this. I have recently started a website, the info you provide on this site has helped me greatly. Anyway, viewers are beginning to revolt by not watching! No commercials{netflix}, cheaper, limitied choice yes but your not supposed to be watching that much damn tv in the first place. 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. Senators/Representatives?. ABC saw a 22% increase in 2020, while CBS and NBC each saw an 8% increase. Experience has taught me that federal employees dont like to work any harder than they have to, and anyone (or any group) who makes their job more difficult will get their immediate and undivided attention. 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. Our local SF Bay Area news programs are horrid. Yes I remember all this BS so clearly when they wanted to get cable introduced into our small town.