On Location: February 24, 2023. I mostly watch Netflix and get my news streamed on the Internet. plus, a severe thunderstorm watch at this hour in parts of the south. Thanks, Michael, for adding your insights. 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. Americans need to stand together and boycott certain channels on certain days to show our voice matters. In the UK on ITV and other commercial networks there are 6 to 7-1/2 minutes of commercials per half hour, but the BBC only shows commercials for their own shows at the end of a program if. The other episodes were of comparable length. Even the newscasters find ways to interject company names or products into their conversation- and during the actual news. I know Shaw Staff gave me my e-mail That never worked from day one So Sea-Side Computers Boycott everything to do with them Today and go with netflix, streaming, youtube or whatever. The news started at 6:30 and was finished at 6:59. We not only are paying for cable, but also giving them 20-25 minutes of our time. What can be done to set new regulations on advertising interruption time of network programs. 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. 1. I looked this up and wrote this while waiting for some actual news on CNN. Thanks for listening. In this insanely capitalistic nation, meaningful legislation to ease this torture is highly unlikely. They have done a very good job at alienating viewers now by LOADING the broadcast with commercial interruptions. Im also in development of a product that auto-mutes commercials, as the existing products out there that auto-mute dont work for long. So if an episode is 24-26 minutes without comercials then air the epispde in its entirety first then take the remaining 4-6 minutes for comercials and repeat. Liberty ads are really annoying too, with all that loud repetitive background music.. or because they file a claim. 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). Also, the programs would end at the actual time instead of on the hour. they are totally stupid, they encourage people to think they can drive like idiots with there cell phones stuck in there ear and cars sliding all over the place. This is the latest report in Pew Research Centers ongoing investigation of the state of news, information and journalism in the digital age, a research program funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, with generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. r uou with me on this ??? Really, is that too much to ask? The sort of funny thing is the people being targeted have no ability to prescribe drugs. Youre shelling out good money for the dubious privilege of being treated like a mindless consumer. 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. For if there were only people like me than there would only be graphs that would consist of words like very little, not many, many, a whole lot, mega amount, etc. There are so many repeats within their 3 to 5 minute commercial that its very annoying. Really? I never watched it in the first place other than the occasional impossible repair job I was facing and I quickly learned that if I couldnt figure out how to get something apart without breaking it, my chances of finding any help would either be non existent or a waste of my time sesrching. 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. Now they get 4 commercials for the same price. 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. Just stopped watching MSNBC. Only way to avoid ads is via Amazon Prime or similar subscriptions. "In 2009, 30-second spots accounted for 62% of all ads on television; 15-second spots were just 35%. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. You can watch ABC live without cable with one of the following options: fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV with an HD antenna, YouTube TV, and DirecTV Stream. Personally I DVR everything or will pause for 15-20 minutes and go do something then come back and fast scan past them. Cord. Either lower the amount of COMMERCIALS to no more than 25% or have them send your TV Bill to the Networks. Im paying $148.00 each month for TV and Internet. It is not. 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. The advertisers dont realize that people dont switch from their favoriite brand. 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The actual program is about 7 minutes the rest is commercials and Well be right back, In our next segment, See what happens when, Dont go away, you have to see why (so-n-so), Blah-blah and Yada-yada. Your imagination comes back you may even start to question things which is a long lost art. You and all other TV program distributors odd to be ashamed of yourselves, but most likely it is an ability you dont have. And, despite what you might think, there is most definitely a Law of Synchronized Commercials! I would think thats advertiser deception and probably prohibited by law. 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!!! So, why not just put a 23 inch screen in the upper left or right of the screen and play the commercials over and over again with all the noise, and stupidity that these commercials now depict. View all posts by Jim Borden. And ABC is all about some crazy Hollywood stories-heaven help! That makes the amount of adverts par hour at 9 minutes. If the 13-minute figure was accurate I would only see a commercial when I turn the TV on once in four times. Its because Disney owns all the channels. But maybe they had a good idea by eliminating the commercials. "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. Allow me to reply to myself. If you think tv is that bad and dont like it that much then why dont you just stop watching it? However, excessive commercials take away a lot from programs I enjoy. Thats the reason I i am a fan of streaming , I also like streaming, but I have to admit, and I know I am in the minority here, I actually enjoy watching some commercials. I think that this channels target demographic must be senior citizens/shut ins/ and lower income folks, since most of the ads feature manipulative begging for money (ASPCA), products that aid the elderly, and medical information. I cannot blame my wife as shes on Medicare. Too bad great show, couldnt wait for season 2, wont be watching it on ABC. Had to quit watching. How many years of the rest of your life do you want to devote to advertisers? So interesting! Tune in to CNN and imeadiatly set the pause button. To whom should we forward our requests for relief from excessive TV advertising? 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. There are only two countries that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. Its the same with the national news media. 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!!!!!!!!!! And no I am not 13 I am 14. February 26, 2023, 6:15 AM. ASPCA LIES & grossly misleads in its ads. When i reminder her that it was live TV she went to bed. Abc world news commercials. I agree with all that is being said. 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. The total time spent on previewing the story ends up being just as long as the story itself. Tonight I timed the last 15 minutes of the ABC nightly news. It is also home to one of the largest youth populations in the world with a median age of only 18. No commercials{netflix}, cheaper, limitied choice yes but your not supposed to be watching that much damn tv in the first place. The statistic presents the average ad time per hour of primetime national TV on cable network groups in the United States in first quarter of 2019. They have become like mini-films, It does say something about our health, and our health care system, Your audit of commercials ranks up there with my counting bricks. I just complain to Direct TV.. but there all laughing at us. My wife and I occasionally comment on just this topic. I hate commercials so much. The all-new ABC News app brings you 24/7 breaking news from across the globe. Price was getting out of hand and there was new under the sun. You'll have 30+ channels including AMC, A&E, CNN, TBS, ESPN, TNT, and many other channels. Almost all insurance companies ads have animal (and sometimes they are the spokesman). Once the gurus get their hands on your money the grip never loosens. This might be a good thing as we free ourselves from the idiot box and start taking in our surroundings. Its horrible and disgusting. I do not have a DVR or any way of recording..just a normal size t.v. Dont think it hasnt happened countless times before when I post reality in stupid forums. 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. I never knew, for example, that insurance and animals were closely related. Pretty soon there will be more commercial and show.. I usually just keep switching channels, then after an hour or two, I just put some music on, something relaxing to bring down my ire from all of those terrible advertisements. You just came back from commercial 20 seconds ago! But I am finished paying for commercials. Fight the good fight, tell the Networks and Madison Ave. to piss off! 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!!! Then it goes to about every 9 or 10 and then during the last 30 minutes it is every 4 minutes. A 60-something guy trying to figure out the world, and his place in it. 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. 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. Just finished the second episode of American Crime on ABC, I counted at least 6 minutes of commercials 4 times at least, possibly 5. I guess anyone who is watching ABC News fits into their demographic. And another thing: The ads to support runaways, starving children (in every country), children with deformed lips or limbs, St Judes cancer hospital, desks and education of children in Africa, and abandoned and/or abused animals all for just $12/month or $19/month or $29/month. I am tired of all the feminine and hygiene products such as, tampon, bra, panty and the other commercials. Candid, open and at times angry, the former presidential candidate talks about what went wrong and her fears for the . It didn`t take any time at all for greed to step into that game. The practice continues because it works and again, it is a necessary component of the business model. You cannot watch more than 6 minutes of content before you get 5 min and 15 commercials. 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. Mainly because of the time allotted for commercials. HLN will give tidbits of whats to come, and by the time the commercials are done, youve forgotten what you were waiting for. That's despite years of. Youre right, Eddie. By spending so much on ads, they have in essence bought the media. A sugar replacement used in many stevia, monk-fruit, keto and other reduced-sugar products marketed for weight loss and diabetes has been linked to stroke, heart attack and early death, a new . There must be a better solution if they want to keep any viewers. And I agree that news watching is probably up righT now, a boom for the tv stations. In fact the entire ad biz irks me greatly. Even sports broadcasts are unwatchable due to the sheer volume of ads shoved at the viewer. Can sound incoherent. I too get annoyed by commercials on cable tv. all that being said, Ive considered this myself, when watching my cable news channels and casually watching what pops up in the ad space, and I wonder silently, hmmm, they must not know that Im not in this age range, but clearly I am, and just not thinking I am. 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. That being NOT enough, they play commercials on the screen during the tv show. The amount of times I have to see the same car ads have driven me to madness. our shows.. Stop watching TV or rent movies. 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. NBC and ABC,. I also pay for YouTube premium to avoid commercials. Commercial 1 17:35-18:35 Rinvoq for rheumatoid arthritis, commercial 3 19:05-19:35 Merck for HPV vaccination, commercial 4 20:40-21:40 Entyvio for Crohns ulcerative colitis, commercial 5 21:40-22:10 American Red Cross for blood donation, commercial 6 22:10-23:10 Otezla for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, commercial 7 23:10-23:30 Celebrity Family Feud and Press Your Luck, commercial 8 24:15-25:15 Eliquis for afib, commercial 9 25:15-25:35 Dulcolax for constipation, commercial 11 26:05-26:15 Aspercreme for aches and pains, commercial 12 26:15-27:15 Trulicity for type 2 diabetes, commercial 13 27:15 to 27:35 The Bachelor, A 60-something guy trying to figure out the world, and his place in it. If you back out the time for teases thats even less time of actual news. But the real problem is advertisements ,yes Its big money for someone So just what does Great post, Jim! I noticed on one channel they have commercials about every 12 to 15 minutes for the first 45 minutes. Thank you for confirming what has been driving me to a version of road rage as I watch David Muir. Who is the DIM-WHIT that expects us to see light gray text on white? They show a lot of old 80s and 90s sitcoms on Saturday and Sundays. Well some of them at least. The Liberty Insurance ads are on at least 200 times a day. Aggravating, distracting and actually counterproductive. Hundreds of ABC staff gathered around the country today and voted to walk off the job for 40 minutes at 2pm on Tuesday, 7 March. Tell u folks Im a happy camper at 85!! 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. NR | 11.16.21 | 20:47 | CC. What adds insult to injury is that my cable company wants me to pay for television channels that are riddled with commercials. WE ARE RETIRED, TV IS GETTING WORSE. Commercials there but not quite as so annoying -yet. For kicks I sampled a number of popular channels* to see what the percentage of commercials to programming averaged. I had to switch to Lester Holt, lol (and theyve got a full medicine cabinet too of drug ads.) You have to factor in all of the late night infomercials as well. Our local SF Bay Area news programs are horrid. Detroit local channel, 2.5 hr. I need ur help..what bis the standard rate of 2 minutes advertisement on TV and RADIO TNX.. 4- This pretty much reduces cable requirements for computer use only. Uhh, they do. Candidate for the Colorado Republican Party chair position Tina Peters speaks during a debate sponsored by the Republican Women of Weld, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, I limit my TV view on cable to mostly free movies on certain channels Tha t have no commercials. That seems outrageous for a drug to cost $10,000 per month; I hope it is bringing you relief. A commercial every 3 to 4 minutes. Commercials are included. Thats truly sad. And if you still need to spend money on good television, support your local PBS station. 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. Am I pleased that I download my viewing.. He did this during his first days in office. The series, along with Jeopardy!, had to halt production due to the coronavirus. I listen to MSNBC at home and those same commercials whenever I have it on. 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. Can you imagine if we only have all these boring institutions left after lockdown. This Microsoft Office 365 Feature Sums Up the Current State of Politics in the U.S. a good 300 here ,but some not opened I always liked to watch internet movies You really do like numbers and that is good that there are people like you! A lawyer friend told us same lunch, that those drug companies had help put his children through college, med school and law school. Be not a sheep. And Im curious how much ABC news charges for a one-minute commercial maybe something for me to do today! A rush transcript of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" airing on Sunday . Just to show you how much advertising length and frequency has Changed And I thought it was just me. But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. 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