SOMETHING IS GOING TO CHANGE VERY SOON. If YOU REALLY WANT IT TO STOP THEN READ THIS, UNITE, ORGANIZE AND PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUR LOCAL CABLE PROVIDER THIS JULY 1ST (WHICH IS A THURSDAY AND A BUSINESS DAY JUST BEFORE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF 2017!). MSNBC unwatchable. Is your bathroom closer to the TV? Too many commercials and JIVE ASS!! However, ads can also be 10, 20, 40, 50, 60 seconds or longer. CNN has gone totally political now, with the anchors boasting their ideas-not the publics. Thank you for this I agree 100%. That is absolutely outrageous and should never happen. Its been WAY out of control for far too long. The commercials are horribly produced for the most part. So sick of the same stupid commercials on the comedy network A survey among media buying agencies showed that a 30 second TV ad during the broadcast of '60 Minutes' during the 2020/21 season cost around 130 In a site I was at before coming here, Comcast, NBC, and MSNBC are suing Dish Network for use of the auto skip ad function their newest DVRs. The only commercial breaks are at the half time, and they go on for about half of the fifteen half-time interval on the upper end (7.5 minutes). games are 60 They create ads and then asks you to pay not to watch them. Before he goes back to sleeping on the job waiting for the emu to wake him, THEY WONT LISTEN TO REASON!!! He then proceeded to gut every other agency that put citizens first and business second. I seem to recall that Saint Ronald Reagan deregulated, along with much else, the maximum commercial time on television. As most ad breaks are either 2, 3 or 3 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. Thank God for Netflix and channels like HBO because paying to not have to see any commercials is more then worth it. 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 !!! Too many channels, too many commercials is killing tv. .. .. .. Im pretty sure they have added at least 1.5 mins of commercials this year per hour. Same with corrupt Clinton Foundations & fat cat overpaid, underperforming execs. You have to factor in all of the late night infomercials as well. Was reading comments and agree with news commercial breaks, they have pay the ridiculous 7 figure salaries of the anchors. In fact the entire ad biz irks me greatly. Never will you hear of someone getting something extra from a service but I can find millions of overcharges made using that billing! Uhh, they do. If half of the time is news would be it. Thats truly sad. The next episode starts at 3:42PM and ends at 4:12PM. The manufacturers of these product want to sell their wares, but to inundate us with all the hype and propaganda about these products, I am seriously considering selling my TV and start doing something else with my time. Recognize that this is a deductible business expense. So, tax dollars help pay for advertising! For the sake of comparison, Ad Age timed the ad breaks on a few other channels and found them to average 3-4 minutes with the occasional 5-minute break. 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. So there was only 20 minutes of the actual show. Ridiculous!! WebAnswer (1 of 2): As time has gone by, television has created more ways to get advertising in front of more eyeballs. Why are we one of them? over the years its got worse, now 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. Senators/Representatives? 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. Funny because I have recently noticed that the commercials are growing there too. Mainly because of the time allotted for commercials. I promise you that over 15 minutes of the half hour show was ad time. A typical TV show is usually approximately 22 minutes for every 1/2 hour of time. my dad told me that there was an FCC regulation on how many commercials could be shown at one time. But maybe they had a good idea by eliminating the commercials. 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. Using the autopsy feature on anything is a sure way to leave the door open to your loss. I named the Terracotta Army as a Tattoo choice because of its grand complexity. Increase in commercials? 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. ALSO, since Im typing in this box and TRYING TO READ what Ive wrote I CANT SEE IT!!! 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 . One more thing I noticed was the posts tend to be written by older people, mostly women. I cut the cord in August, 2009 and have never missed it. 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. https://sites.google.com/view/hotel-managements/home. 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. You and all other TV program distributors odd to be ashamed of yourselves, but most likely it is an ability you dont have. The greed of TV networks has overrun our program viewing. No more dying children and sad dogs shivering in the cold. The standard length of a TV ad is 30 seconds long. When they begin showing Commercials during these broadcasts.I will just laugh and laugh! 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. I can no longer pay for TV and have more minutes of advertising than a program I am canceling my Direct TV. Twice as many as CNN. TvLand is the worst. a marketing resource.. Youre dumb. They are spending billions on ads, money that they take from customers, for in many cases REQUIRED BY LAW that people purchase. I remember 10 years ago I didnt need a cable box to get HD tv direct to my set. Have noticed commercial are the same for over a year. Notice now how CNN has added Anthony Bourdain? I hate to say it but by keeping cable or even Hulu or Amazon or watching you tube, youre just moving to the next platform thats already planning on how they can increase ads and charge you more way before you see it happen. No and now Frontier has added a fast forward rejection for commercials. Whether it happens or not depends. However, what Ive found lately is that the commercials seem to be corresponding with each other I cant get a break. We the public get it. 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. I still have time to pour myself a cup of coffee. The other episodes were of comparable length. Thanks for all of your time & work. Better yet watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or any of the other pay services. NetFlix/Hulu/Etc are it. Plus, it chaps my hide that I have to pay for something and still have to endure 30-50% ads. The commercial lasts from 15 to 30 seconds and there would be more than one company or product advertised. 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. Our cable bill is out of sight, we are cutting the cable and going over the air or even tossing out our tVs. She at Shaw told me it was mailed June 01,2021, I never opened it because I got a notice on my computer over due, That is a insult to me .Thank You in Advance ,But we both know the outcome. It is 4 AM, so I dont feel like researching this, maybe someone else will do the honors. These breaks run Be not a sheep. However, excessive commercials take away a lot from programs I enjoy. How is the word commercial defined? Netflix & Acorn as my streaming shows. Who is the DIM-WHIT that expects us to see light gray text on white? 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 they get 4 commercials for the same price. This is in Canada using telus. If Im interested in watching something, I simply wait for it to come out on dvd, and watch it that way. I will start keeping a list of advertised merchandise and at least I can refuse to purchase the items interrupting my programs. Web214 votes, 22 comments. They have done a very good job at alienating viewers now by LOADING the broadcast with commercial interruptions. Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. No unsightly antenna on the roof or tower to maintain. But it is so not worth the huge fees. Im also in development of a product that auto-mutes commercials, as the existing products out there that auto-mute dont work for long. WE ARE RETIRED, TV IS GETTING WORSE. GET A GRIP ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS AND TV CHANNELSWE DO NOT WANT TO SEE SO DARN MANY COMMERCIALSPERIOD! Many of them require additional paid subscriptions. The FCC? Have been watching over the air channels for a year because cable is a rip off. Have a date night at any hotel chain and tune in the their satellite TV in your room. Here in the UK, if a show on the BBC is shown as lasting 30 minutes, it will be that long as there's no advertising there. Zimadude. i agree this commercial break every 6 min is annoying and dumb, this is ANNOYING i went to go watch my favourite show but there was ads so i went to 10 new channels and ALL HAD ADDS F*K DIS IM DONE. And when you watch a sitcom its worse by the time the show comes back you forgot where they left off. 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. Other platforms are simply waiting for their popularity to gain momentum before they make big changes. Thanks for listening. The FCC has COMPLETE and TOTAL authority over them, so which do you think would be more effective at handling your complaints? 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. I have two collector cars I tinker with. Even PBS has ads. GREED IS OUT OF CONTROL!! Because of all the commercials I cut my cable subscription to just basic and purchased a roku stick. 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. Netflix and streaming services are a good option. Detroit local channel, 2.5 hr. Now end credits are zapped SO FAST one cannot see who did what or who was who on the screen. My guess is that there are more and more shorter commercials because the advertisers are less likely to pay for them. Which means my 1 hour show was almost 20mins of commercials. I, agree with all these other vewers about commercials being out of control. I do not have a DVR or any way of recording..just a normal size t.v. These channels wont keep discriminating audiences for very long at the rate they are going down the road to commercialization. Not to mention the newscaster is CUT OFF IN MID SENTENCE. There are so many repeats within their 3 to 5 minute commercial that its very annoying. I remember when cable was just supposed to be for reception and commercial free channels! What kind of ridiculous joke is that? 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. In other words, they expand the viewing time by almost half for your commercial enjoyment. That being NOT enough, they play commercials on the screen during the tv show. Ready to go back to broadcast TV. I canceled cable last year and have Hulu Netflix and amazon. Tell u folks Im a happy camper at 85!! Plus no one is going to produce a quality TV show if the TV stations dont have any money. This is commercial insanity. Then the total commercial load is closer to 50%. So we take that even further and do not buy products advertised on TV, we feel if its heavily advertised the product is over priced. Best Answer. Cut. But I am finished paying for commercials. 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. Thats every hour! David Muirs nightly news at 6:30 is absolutely THE WORST when it comes to commercials. Plot out the story lines in your script. I am 69 years old and handicapped, my only entertainment is television..well, I can only hope the greedy corporate heads will have nothing but commercials run thru their heads as they try to sleep plus end up with television as their only source of entertainment because of the same health issues I have. Call your TV provider and tell them they have a choice. As I recall almost of the commercials in the 1960s were one minute long. Flood the FTC with complaints about this issue. Greed. How can any cable station, network or advertiser think that this approach will result in more sales? I think well have a casserole, so I can watch Dr. Phil at 4PM. pharmaceutical, insurance and automobile are the worst With pharmaceutical being number one. 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 say God bless TMC which runs entire classic movies without commercial interruption. Cheers to all posters on this thread. Only way to avoid ads is via Amazon Prime or similar subscriptions. 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 further said out of ten heavily advertised drugs four to five would cause major medical issues and the company would more than likely know they were a problem drug, hide the data and sell it anyway. That very first soap ad on TV eons ago screwed us. I usually always watch two shows at once , and sometimes itll be three , so when Commercials come on one I flip to the other. Its getting even more annoying this year. Cut the cable, put up an antenna, and add a streaming service. I do not have a DVR, but I do have start-over with my cable box. ", i was watching a cable channel program and there was a commercial break every 6 minutes, makes me want to stop watching tv. There must be a better solution if they want to keep any viewers. They are useless annoyances. After seeing all to the ads here, I now think we could do the same. This forum has no authority over TV stations, nor their advertisers. Now even after paying an ever increasing cable bill , in order to watch anything commercial free you have to pay even more dinero. BOYCOTT YOUR LOCAL CABLE PROVIDER THIS COMING JULY 1ST. So much Advertisement it covers every thing I want to read We all shop for these products, so why hit us with all the same ads? The world of business is, in general, a very pathetic comment on the human state. I think cbs makes way too much money on the ads but I think the owner of CBS knows this and he will never stop because it means more money in his already fat wallet. And, despite what you might think, there is most definitely a Law of Synchronized Commercials! our dose of corporate vomit (adverts) has been slashed significantly. Remember when a cable subscription meant no commercials? 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. there is way to many commerices on GH NOT ENOUGH OF THE SOAP SHOW I BEEN WATCHING THIS SOAP SINCE IT STARTED ON TV A LONG TIME LOUISE I WANT TO SEE IT ON FOR 2 HOURS EVERY DAY LESS COMMERICES AND LIKE TO SEE THEM ALL SING OUT THE SHOW THAT WAS SO GREAT AND WANT TO SEE LUKE BACK AND SCORPIE BACK THANKYOU. Gone are the days when broadcasters believed they had s commitment to broadcast journalism and covering news from around the world. Bravo, Sir! I have never switched products on the word of some paid celebrity. No telling how long the news will actually last. TCM with its great movies, commercial-free. These commercials are terrible for news programs because a viewer never gets to know anything about a story because of interruptions. I too refuse to buy anything theyre selling Eight minutes of movie to nine minutes of ads I timed it! Better quality with clearer reception and sound. And many times, I wont bother to switch it back. Advanced nations in the world should be funding contraception for women in third-world nations anyway. Just watched E channel. No ambulance chasers, no pill pill pushers, no car/home warranty sheisters. 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. I can start watching a movie 45 60 minutes after the start time, fast forward through the commercials; and catch up to the live broadcast by the end of the movie. Yep, I cant watch the Golf Channel live any more. Watch only the first half then turn it off. OK we all HATE commercials but what can we do about it? I would think thats advertiser deception and probably prohibited by law. WebStep 2. They show more and more commercials, I watch less and less TV. Week after week same thing its so stupid and the same ones over and over on the same Show! I actually watched a Friends episode specifically for the purpose of timing the commercials. a good 300 here ,but some not opened I always liked to watch internet movies 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. All tv outlets are doing this now, Logo airs Fresh Prince in 45min blocks. commercials were not supposed to be on cable when it came to our area, thats why you are paying for cable thats what we were told, now we pay high rates and the commercials have never stopped increasing in the amount of time they have taken up per hour. Cord. Disgusting! The commercial breaks are like every 5 minutes! We, as human beings, watch way too much tv, and its been proven make us more complacent rather than free thinking, emotionally intelligent people. 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. Its outrageous! Absolutely! My hunch is that the 13-minute figure is way low! 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 to really enjoy CNN as a male news junkie. Bless you and your formula for resisting consumer propaganda. Yes, we have optionsshut the box off! with no gadgets. Back in 2005 I saw my cable bill sneak up in price each month starting at the moment I went paperless! 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