Gone are the days when broadcasters believed they had s commitment to broadcast journalism and covering news from around the world. I remember when cable was just supposed to be for reception and commercial free channels! The standard length of a TV ad is 30 seconds long. But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. The next break was about five and a half minutes, starting off with a bumper announcing that " King of Queens is brought to you by Allstate." Just finished the second episode of American Crime on ABC, I counted at least 6 minutes of commercials 4 times at least, possibly 5. Same goes for all the shows. 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. Mind numbing, not to mention Butt numbing, broaden your horizons, get a hobby. Those companies are fools because millions of people are not watching their commercials. I looked this up and wrote this while waiting for some actual news on CNN. your lives will come back. TV Drama Breakdown: Explore the Act Structure of 'This is So cable gets paid from us and through commercials, and nobody is getting off cheap! In terms of golf on the golf channel I believe there are more commercials than golf which is rather disruptive and makes viewing totally unfavorable.I would prefer to tape and fast forward on all commercials and I believe more and more people are doing this. I pay a HUGE amount for cable, with no choice of the channels I receive. 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 Too many adsfar too many dishonest ads & profligate lies, l4ies & more LIES! Act 1: All the shit that leads up to the first commercial break. oversight agencies and they are on a path to kill the golden goose. The Journals analysis found that commercials took up about an hour, or one-third, of the game. I do not have a DVR or any way of recording..just a normal size t.v. 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. Great, she said. You cant channel surf anymore, all the channels are on commercial breaks. In one hour, 33-40% of the time is devoted to commercials. What do you use now? (b) This may be increased by a further three minutes per hour (5 per cent) devoted to I timed a recent episode of Walking Dead with there being a 4 minute commercial break for every 6 minutes of episode, making a total of 24 minutes of commercial in one hour. We paid to watch TV, not the advertisers. They show a lot of old 80s and 90s sitcoms on Saturday and Sundays. Do they think the cable providers care if you are watching? Streaming services are similar to what cable used to in the beginning. It is getting to the point where we watch a lot less tv about ready to drop cable. Instead of about 20 total names, now everyone who did anything during the production gets credit for it, but their names are zapped so fast and small you wont know anyway. I was watching a show the other night and decided to count the commercials.. I have timed these commercials, and the number of commercials per one half hour and one hour shows. Notice that insurance companies (looking at you geico, liberty, allstate, farmers, general, etc.) In these approximately I counted 14 commercial at one time. The license to operate over the public airways comes with responsibilities-it was never meant to be Why dont they take the billions of $$$ blown on frivolous advertising, lower their rates accordingly and maybe save their customers some real money ? I remember as a kid when people came to the door asking my parents if they would be interested in cable and they explained all the benefits. We will only have just so many days, so many hours and only so many minutes. Broadcast networks averaged 13 minutes and 25 seconds of commercial time per hour in 2009, which grew to 14 minutes and 15 seconds in 2013, the story reports. I share a Netflix account with my daughter and have recently subscribed to YouTubeTV for a fraction of what Comcast was charging. Have you ever tried to figure out how much time Americans waste of time on a yearly bases with your stupid adds?? I swear, no more than 45-60 seconds of show, then 2+ full min. Just watch the chiller channel. Its not like there isnt PLENTY of other things to watch in the meantime! Thats the only way to force the cable company to modify their commercials policies. I now have an antenna set up to receive local programming on approx 25 to 40 stations. But maybe they had a good idea by eliminating the commercials. I assume its a matter of financial survival or rather profit-growing to keep investors interested in supporting the model. The Federal Communications Commission is the only God TV broadcasters and advertisers fear. I also use the mute button but, Im tired of that as well. I too refuse to buy anything theyre selling Bless you and your formula for resisting consumer propaganda. PBS! The commercial lasts from 15 to 30 seconds and there would be more than one company or product advertised. All these advertising scumbags should have razor cuts all over their bodies then drenched in alcohol. Had to quit watching. Shit ads for a shit show they ruined TV, No black actors except all blacks all gay ads WTF a campaign for WHO ? I usually always watch two shows at once , and sometimes itll be three , so when Commercials come on one I flip to the other. An entirely new business model is needed for TV. 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. I no longer watch them unless desperate. Commercial creep was a factor in my decision to dump cable altogether in favor of ad-free streaming services. The trend is 4-6 minutes of show and 5 minutes of commercial.and on and on. Watch PBS, commercial free and you get actual news and not what a pundit thinks. (Other services) 1.1.2(B) (a) The total amount of spot advertising in any one day must not exceed an average of nine minutes per hour (15 per cent) of broadcasting. Google has shown us that everything they touch will cost you in some way, if not directly in cash you will give up privacy and bombarding you with add is their coup de grace. Its horrible and disgusting. I like watching TV. 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! I have never ,and I mean never have bought one thing that Ive seen on a commercial. Last year I started to watch football games with the remote nearby or in my hand so I could mute all the commercials. 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. I need ur help.. what is the standard rate of 2 minutes advertisement on TV and RADIO tnx.. 28 commercials on channel 251, August 27, 2017. TCM with its great movies, commercial-free. Just what are commercial ratings? Cord. Greed has no inhibitions. 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. Ridiculous!! I cannot stand watching the news anymore. The price for this great deal was only $49.00 a month. Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. .. .. .. Sure they will laugh but if enough people start calling and demanding this, IT WILL GET DONE. Also, the programs would end at the actual time instead of on the hour. Just to show you how much advertising length and frequency has Changed Same as the Toll Bridge myth. How about socializing insurance instead of socializing health care? They have like 25 minutes of commercials and 5 minutes of programming. i remember those great days when commercials were regulated by law. There are only two countries that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. I will start keeping a list of advertised merchandise and at least I can refuse to purchase the items interrupting my programs. I have been keeping track of the commercial minutes and programming minutes on DISH, it averages 5 minutes of commercials and 9 minutes of programming. The cable or sattlelite networks thinks that no one will ever do anything significant for them to worry. 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. My first time here. Start up your car and wait until the ice melts off of all wind shields. And ABC is all about some crazy Hollywood stories-heaven help! If Im interested in watching something, I simply wait for it to come out on dvd, and watch it that way. So Im glad these commercials breaks are growing and seeming to drag on more and more, like pushers trying to force products down your throat. 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. Im paying $148.00 each month for TV and Internet. Just stopped watching MSNBC. The ridiculous ratio between commercial time vs. movie time MUST be alienating viewers. Theres a far better world in Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. Within a one hour show, there were 41 commercials Makes me glad I have a PVR so I can fast forward them. That comes out to be 1 ad every minute of the show. 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! The rates go up, service goes down. It does absolutely NO GOOD to gripe about TV ads on forums like this one. 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. You trying to blind us? Hey..I could either pay for watching a show with my time (and AGGRAVATION) by putting up with all those annoying commercials, or simply pay directly for the dvds themselves, and enjoy them later, completely commercial free !!! The opening comment is bull shit No thanks Im happy only paying $20.00 a month and actually seeing things I am interested in. I am sorry if I have caused any offence. Doesnt seem that way anymore!!! 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. Hit them in their bank account. You would think that I should be entitled to watch commercial free movies. And the best part is. Laws that regulate this must be enforced or made. The next commercials are in five minutes, allowing me plenty of time to polish the tables and start my laundry. 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. I too get annoyed by commercials on cable tv. Its terrible. I have recently started a website, the info you provide on this site has helped me greatly. When Mika says coming up, I rapidly tap the 30 second jump botton 8 times (4 minutes and Im good. To pound in more commercials, why else! Comcast has a new dirty trick. Either lower the amount of COMMERCIALS to no more than 25% or have them send your TV Bill to the Networks. My hunch is that the 13-minute figure is way low! Whew, that felt good to vent, thanks. I was inspired to come on line here after a deluge of ads on BBC America. I only noticed it because some of the shows I was watching seemed to be going unusually ABRUPTLY from show to commercial. Early TV credits had me scratching my head. So many of us dvr and replay in order to skip over these interruptions. Anyway, all these ads are expensive. account for about 50% of all commercials. Each of us only have a certain amount of time that we will get to live and be here on this earth. So did it run 1:15 or 1:30 total. Dish is adamant (rightly so I hope) that the BETAMAX case that went to the Supreme Court years ago settled the time-shifting of recorded material for the sole purpose of non commercial (not for hire or re-braodcast) use by the consumer was not an infringement on the copyright of the broadcasters nor their TV ad subsidized commercials. Happy profits and goodbye! When watching something On Demand, they will insert their own commercials JUST BEFORE a regular commercial will present, such that if you just wait though the whole commercial set, you will be MISSING some of the actual program without even knowing it! How many years of the rest of your life do you want to devote to advertisers? They have done a very good job at alienating viewers now by LOADING the broadcast with commercial interruptions. Do the math,not worth watching unless you are hooked on commercials, not to mention prolific number of re runs. Her accent is as grating as the commercial breaks. Never will you hear of someone getting something extra from a service but I can find millions of overcharges made using that billing! (60 minutes of commercials per 3 hours allotted for a movie). I canceled cable last year and have Hulu Netflix and amazon. The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. Not to mention that they are now speeding up the regular programming ever so slightly so they can squeeze in another mindless ad. Perhaps there are also in-house commercials for the network pushing itself constantly. Even sports broadcasts have become painful to me Id rather follow the score in an app and catch the highlights later. May they get the payback they so richly deserve. I wondering how much of the show Im really seeing. So I checked what was happening by turning the same show on through Comcast online through the computer, and could see the 10-30 seconds of the show that was missing as presented on the On Demand through the cable. 90% of funds go into execs pockets, almost NOTHING goes to benefit the cause the charity was created to help. With Medicare enrollment going on right now its constant all day, it is sickening and unnecessary. This channel is RIDDLED with what seems like only the following commercials. End credits of tv shows were not interrupted by future shows. You show you have no respect for your customers. The broadcast lasted three hours and 15 minutes, but it included 18 separate commercial breaks that in total lasted 43 minutes not including the halftime break. Otherwise I would sit and let the day go by, whilst the Boob Tube sucks at my brain! Its simply not worth the aggravation. 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. I named the Terracotta Army as a Tattoo choice because of its grand complexity. Now they get 4 commercials for the same price. The average NFL game includes 20 commercial breaks containing more than 100 ads. 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. ABCs evening news will rush through their stories to give you the pharmaceutical commercials which are longer than any story segment. The most aggravating offender was when I had Hulu, which produces their own really stupid ads and then charges you if you want an ad-free subscription add-on (which only eliminates their ads). I can no longer pay for TV and have more minutes of advertising than a program I am canceling my Direct TV. I never knew, for example, that insurance and animals were closely related. The advertisers dont realize that people dont switch from their favoriite brand. It was cheaper for CNN to just go back to Martin about every 7 minutes than it was to actually send a news crew out on a story to investigate facts. Dont they realize theyre alienating their customer base? Thinking you can run and hide from ads is simply foolish, everyone has already pointed this out when they say cable started ad free, yet everyone thinks Hulu and similar devices arent going to follow the same basic idea thats been true on every other platform since video was invented. First half of the show isnt bad but the second half, my God..one report, a commercial, another report, a commercial, another report, a commercial..you see about 5 or 6 commercials in the span of about 10 minutes, its annoying. Using the autopsy feature on anything is a sure way to leave the door open to your loss. Theyll ride that horse until it drops dead on them. They are just using their collected info to do smarter targeted ads. There are thousands of complaints about the excessive commercials the TV networks are running. Years ago when HBO first came out there were no commercials. Write and send your complaints to the FCC. WebOn broadcast, a show is typically between 40 and 45 minutes of content with 15 - 20 minutes of commercials to end up with 60 minutes. I hate commercials so much. I record a lot of the time ! Exceptions to this are overtime periods, which have none. Tune in to CNN and imeadiatly set the pause button. So 90 minute program equals to 70-75 minutes, and 2 hour program at 84-88 minutes. Best thing we ever did. I close my eyes during the estimated commercial times. Early on 30-minute tv shows were brought to you by one sponsor. Tell me why you FUCKS NEED SO MUCH MORE $$$ WHY ALL THE FUCKING commercials. They show more and more commercials, I watch less and less TV. We are not getting the product, for which were paying for. David Muirs nightly news at 6:30 is absolutely THE WORST when it comes to commercials. you may all hate the commercials, but it is what pays for the programs you watch. Thats the other reason that it will continue. 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