I always mute them, I will come back into the room just to mute them. Who is the DIM-WHIT that expects us to see light gray text on white? Could not bear it any longer. If Im interested in watching something, I simply wait for it to come out on dvd, and watch it that way. PBS there ok until they start asking for money, We the people own the airwaves, and we have every right to specify how many minutes per hour the stations we allow to use our airwaves may devote to commercials One thing that is ironic: I do enjoy some of those comedy commercials from time to time. Whew, that felt good to vent, thanks. I do NOT have a personal relationship with my insurer (geico lizards be damned). But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. Now you need a box so Comcast and like companies can not only control content but quality and up-charge for both. You need to have the dislike of commercials force you to stop watching? 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. 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. 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. "In 2009, 30-second spots accounted for 62% of all ads on television; 15-second spots were just 35%. You cant channel surf anymore, all the channels are on commercial breaks. Absolutely! CUT & PASTE THIS MESSAGE AND KEEP PASSING IT ON!! Old shows that ran 22 minutes per 1/2 hour are so cut up its almost unrecognizable. Ha! Only then will they experience 1/100 of the misery the rest of us go through. 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 cant watch commercial tv anymore. our shows.. Stop watching TV or rent movies. I record all the shows I want to watch so that I can fast forward commercials. It seems the news interrupts a stream of hideous car ads etc. Have been watching over the air channels for a year because cable is a rip off. Thats the only thing they understand. Cut. An average hour of monitored prime-time US network TV programming in Q408 contained seven minutes, 59 seconds (7:59) of in-show brand appearances and 13:52 of network commercial messages, for a combined total of 21:51 of marketing content, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Things have got change , I pay to much for cable to be watching all these commercials. Ill copy and save it and try again if it does. Write and send your complaints to the FCC. One minute of news then cut to 5 of adverts. I cut the cord in August, 2009 and have never missed it. 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. Commercials there but not quite as so annoying -yet. Its time we start getting a life instead of being addicted to a Box on the wall. I have two collector cars I tinker with. THERE IS A SOLUTION SUPPORT AND WATCH PBS! More time spent on ads than on the story itself. Good bye David .. Nick at Nite now up to 20+ minutes of commercials per hour !!!!!!! It makes me not want to watch TV. Its a shame what it has come to..Pathetic A.F. ASPCA LIES & grossly misleads in its ads. Week after week same thing its so stupid and the same ones over and over on the same Show! My Doctor friend told me while eating lunch that if a drug was heavily advertised a patient should never, never ever take it. Mainly because of the time allotted for commercials. Yes, we have optionsshut the box off! So why pay the extraordinary high price of cable or satellite to watch commercials, I would understand if tv was free but with the price we pay, there shouldnt be any commercials at all!! Its outrageous! Are you really that weak willed? So if you truly cherish your time and how it is being spent, and if you feel strongly enough to no longer be a contributor to this open and defiant display of corporate greed that has gone completely out of control then pass on the date for a nationwide boycott where everyone will choose the same date on their calendar when they will call their cable company and disconnect. Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. 1- Many commercials are dumb as a stump at best. A if the public hated the show, the sponsor was screwed. I named the Terracotta Army as a Tattoo choice because of its grand complexity. had three commercial breaks; the first break ran nearly 6 minutes with 15 different commercials, starting with a promo for TV Land's Happily Divorced. What their next move? It is totally stupid to waste money on commercials that are longer than That comes out to be 1 ad every minute of the show. Anyway, all these ads are expensive. I question the value of CNNs news reporting, which usually puts the same handful of toothless stories on endless cycle and frames them with blocks of advertising. I would like to see another channel like abc or nbc challenge cbs by running less ads and see what kind of viewing public they get. This forum has no authority over TV stations, nor their advertisers. Twice as many as CNN. account for about 50% of all commercials. Early on 30-minute tv shows were brought to you by one sponsor. The frequent interruptions also add to our anger and frustration. Not only is commercials outrageous but the volume goes up during the commercials. They show more and more commercials, I watch less and less TV. Especially with a Republican majority in Congress, the party that would eliminate all regulation. In other words, they dont just break INTO a show, and then resume at that same point in the show after the commercial, but they break OVER actual show content, and when the show resumes you never know that you missed part of the show, it was just left out! Stop or sign up for some online service. Its past time to turn it off! Viacom currently airs the most commercial minutes per hour among the cable groups, at 15.1. I usually go to the kitchen to make my sandwiches. I wondering how much of the show Im really seeing. 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!!! They dont see people they see $ sign, Online streaming services surpassed television. Meanwhile, on broadcast, Fox I spend my spare time with YouTube now. How many commercials are show on an average commercial break? How much does it pay? Oh, I dont get any money. Do not buy from their sponsors and maybe they will back off on some of this crap. So many of us dvr and replay in order to skip over these interruptions. WebYou begin and end them as you would a sitcom, however there are no scene breaks. When it comes to commercial advertisements, I simply fast forward them. Our cable bill is out of sight, we are cutting the cable and going over the air or even tossing out our tVs. : Is there any address that I can send my feeling about how many commercials are being played at one time on Satellite TV. Never will you hear of someone getting something extra from a service but I can find millions of overcharges made using that billing! True Roy. Thats why I have a dozen old remotes with worn out mute buttons. 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 have been muting ALL TV commercials (and radio) for over 30 years and as far as I know, the ONLY advertised item I have ever bought was over twenty years ago when I purchased a tele-zapper which was a device that when installed on the incoming phone line sent out a signal to telemarketers that indicated the phone was disconnected which would start the process of eliminating unwanted phone calls. Really? I m just sick of paying for dish cable ads where are the t.v. Bravo, Sir! When respectable visit your local tattooist. You have to factor in all of the late night infomercials as well. Believe it or not, once you get used to being patient enough to wait for a series to run its course, its really not that hard to do. They play on average 16 to 18 commercials per spot, and there are usually 5 spots per one half hour show. No commercials. Plus no one is going to produce a quality TV show if the TV stations dont have any money. I hate commercials so much. I swear, no more than 45-60 seconds of show, then 2+ full min. It means they can block out real news (and have smaller staffs) and kill-off an hour time block that was formerly occupied by real news. or because they file a claim. I have a method to this madness, I watch these stations and flip during the commercials: ABC News, CNN News, and HLN News. Flood the FTC with complaints about this issue. That way I can select what to watch,or, delete the programs entirely. AARP is as corrupt as the many lying charity pharma & lying AARP adsthe money AARP spends on its massive ad campaign is almost criminal! oversight agencies and they are on a path to kill the golden goose. Be not a sheep. I not only stopped paying for tv because of endless commercials but they all found a new way to rip people off and profiting showing blocks of same shows endlessly repeated day after day. By spending so much on ads, they have in essence bought the media. Had to quit watching. So it got too expensive for advertisers. Hey Im for that, I pay $177.00 a month to Spectrum for cable and internet, but Im getting to the end of my rope switching channels to avoid commercials. Still, I am paying good money for this bull-help is very much needed! It costs for good internet, but Im done with cable TV. Our days now dont have enough hours in them. The next commercials are in five minutes, allowing me plenty of time to polish the tables and start my laundry. Many times the broadcasters are presenting it in a way that helps them to persuade viewers. 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. When I lived in England, We hated to buy a license to watch the BBC. He then proceeded to gut every other agency that put citizens first and business second. I also doubt that the commencials happen every 6 minutes, that would mean 10 breaks but only 90 seconds of commercials at a break, way lower. I realize that someone has to pay for the freight so why not charge more for commercial time and have fewer of them? I can make that switch in less then a second if the commercials continue. 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!!! 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. 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. 1995 Dollars. I need ur help..what bis the standard rate of 2 minutes advertisement on TV and RADIO TNX.. The myth was that you would pay for cable in order to be free from commercial interruption. The number of commercials has increased to the point where its no longer possible to follow, no less watch 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. Copy. I remember when cable was just supposed to be for reception and commercial free channels! At least they play some music just before the breaks to warn me theyre coming. Now it is almost 50%. 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. Is your bathroom closer to the TV? See ya, I have to take a 20 minute commercial break! In these approximately 90% of funds go into execs pockets, almost NOTHING goes to benefit the cause the charity was created to help. I use my TVs blue blanker and lightning fast reflexes to blank out commercials and they are fast to switch from the show right to the commercial. What can be done to set new regulations on advertising interruption time of network programs. 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!) 50 minutes of musice and then 10 of comercials . Even PBS has ads. A typical TV show is usually approximately 22 minutes for every 1/2 hour of time. We paid to watch TV, not the advertisers. I mute all commercials, and if I do see an advertiser on way more than others, I never buy their product. Comcast has a new dirty trick. We are already doing that they just dont care and since more people are switching to streaming they need more adds to cover their lost profit, hence more commercials per hour, I cant stand fox NFL on Sundays or Thursday night football bc they fuck with more commercials then football damn it. Thirteen minutes per hour? Why cant you do like in Denmark where adds are placed between programs. I canceled cable last year and have Hulu Netflix and amazon. Boycott Cable, even CNN, there is no other way they will learn. Greed has no inhibitions. Personally I DVR everything or will pause for 15-20 minutes and go do something then come back and fast scan past them. Discovery Channel is worst over 20 mins of commercials per hour I want to quit watching, Look guys this stupid asshole states he enjoys comedy commercials. Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram back after outage. 1:15 If waiters and waitresses live on 15% tips the so can TV advertisers. Laws that regulate this must be enforced or made. Heres a perfect example: one of my all-time favorite sitcoms, MASH, is re-run on three different cable networks throughout any weekday. 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. Its no secret. Its not like there isnt PLENTY of other things to watch in the meantime! I think well have a casserole, so I can watch Dr. Phil at 4PM. You trying to blind us? The only way to send a clear message without wasting your time compossing an on line post that they will never see or care about, is to cancel your cable and when they ask why, tell them it costs too much to watch crap mixed with more comer isls than content. I agree, I will never want to buy some product that I been forced to hear about every night over and over. I mean, if they can reject a Politicians commercial because they dont like their politics, they should be able to reject some Noisy commercial selling something no one wants. So I guess we all agree Commercials Suck? Same with ASPCA, UNICEF, CARE, wasteful charities. Im proud to say that I dont recognise a single advert on TV when I see one played wherever I might be. So there was only 20 minutes of the actual show. They are just using their collected info to do smarter targeted ads. That is absolutely outrageous and should never happen. Dont they realize theyre alienating their customer base? That makes the amount of adverts par hour at 9 minutes. r uou with me on this ??? Ridiculous!! Just finished the second episode of American Crime on ABC, I counted at least 6 minutes of commercials 4 times at least, possibly 5. Allow me to reply to myself. No cable, and sometimes no over the air television either. But Ive had too much of advertising on TV. Theres a far better world in Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. Everone should know how much their time is worth per hour. The next episode starts at 3:42PM and ends at 4:12PM. What will it accomplish? So interesting! I now have an antenna set up to receive local programming on approx 25 to 40 stations. ..and its getting worse, the story says. And I watched it for a while, just to see that it was STILL cut all to hell to add yet more commercials. 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. 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. The first commercial comes in just a couple of minutes. time slot to show 1.5/1.75 hour movie . I have not watched TV for several years now. Manipulative political porn. 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. We overdo everything. Its rediculus that some commercials last as long as 7 minutes or longer. Tell me why you FUCKS NEED SO MUCH MORE $$$ WHY ALL THE FUCKING commercials. Last year, the average was 15 minutes and 38 seconds, up from 14 minutes and 27 seconds in 2009, according to the report. Helen -you are ingenious! Remember when a cable subscription meant no commercials? over the years its got worse, now No ambulance chasers, no pill pill pushers, no car/home warranty sheisters. Fox News among others obviously doesnt care how bad they are pissing off the viewers with outlandish commercial time vs programming! Additionally, I find that very often, time is cut from the movie or program to make space for even more commercials! Too many adsfar too many dishonest ads & profligate lies, l4ies & more LIES! Thats when I wash any dishes in the sink. 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. at one scene Marcus Lattrell said Frick You. I rarely look at An ad for donations for contraception medications or products would be a more logical plea for struggling populations not money to feed abandoned and unwanted children. 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. Using the autopsy feature on anything is a sure way to leave the door open to your loss. Ill record and speed thru commercials BUT!!! A single episode of a one-hour network TV show typically lasts about 45 minutes, leaving roughly 15 minutes of air time for commercials. Stop the ads ..we are sick of them where are the t.v.shows with out sooo many ads. 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