(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. Sorry but nothing short of a massive Television boycott is going to get any decision makers attention.. One of these days a Network will realize that if they establish standards and reject commercials with yelling, screaming, and other obnoxious audio, their Nielsen ratings would increase. Just stopped watching MSNBC. 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! Hit them in their bank account. : Is there any address that I can send my feeling about how many commercials are being played at one time on Satellite TV. Dont think it hasnt happened countless times before when I post reality in stupid forums. Its not like there isnt PLENTY of other things to watch in the meantime! You show you have no respect for your customers. It didn`t take any time at all for greed to step into that game. 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. Plot out the story lines in your script. I give it 3-4 minutes and switch back. 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. And the best part is. your lives will come back. On top of that they show the same 3-4 commercials over and over again ON EVERY BREAK. A single episode of a one-hour network TV show typically lasts about 45 minutes, leaving roughly 15 minutes of air time for commercials. 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. I dont watch any commercials if I had to I would not be able to have TV. Fight the good fight, tell the Networks and Madison Ave. to piss off! The other episodes were of comparable length. MUCH more productive. How much is comfortable? So each 1/2 hour show has 8 minutes or so of commercials. Just finished watching the newest Bates Motel even though i recorded and was skipping commercials I was baffled at how many times i had to hit the 30 second skip. They have done a very good job at alienating viewers now by LOADING the broadcast with commercial interruptions. i remember those great days when commercials were regulated by law. This is cheapness on a grand scale and the average viewer doesnt realize that by having MORE commercials and less news, the news divisions also need fewer employees. Copyright 2018 Dexter Canfield Media Inc. Fox News Shuffles Its Lineup as Anchor Takes Time Off, ABC Revamps Prime Time, Takes Wraps Off 2014-15 Schedule Featuring 12 New Shows. 9 commercials in a row on KMGH channel 9 on Wednesday, 10/13/21, Why? Plus, it chaps my hide that I have to pay for something and still have to endure 30-50% ads. CNN devotes up to 12 commercial in its quick breaks. The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. I either watch DVDs or stream commercial free from Netflix or Hulu. On cable TV, the growth has been even more significant, the report notes. Mr. Zinda is correct; venting your ire here will only provide fuel to the advertisers fire, and the stations really DONT CARE whether you watch their commercials or not, because theyve ALREADY BEEN PAID for that ad. about the animals it claims to saveBig Pharma pushes deadly meds likely to harm or kill those who use them.. CARE, UNICEF, Save The Children, Clinton Foundations all LIE about what they doexecs get 90% or more of every donated dollar for themselves & almost NOTHING goes to the cause itself. Its time for them to stop being so greedy, and provide a better version of the entertainment they claim to be providing. Please help us! Your imagination comes back you may even start to question things which is a long lost art. Everone should know how much their time is worth per hour. 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. Watch PBS, commercial free and you get actual news and not what a pundit thinks. Ill copy and save it and try again if it does. It sure does. I believe the 30 minutes of nightly news has more than 10 minutes of ads. I can on occasion listen to radio shows and hear the news. On the TV guide will be 5 or more channels sheerly for products being sold. The answer, according to a 2016 report from Bloomberg, is somewhere between 60 and 70. In an ideal world, a commercial rating would be the precise number of viewers who saw a TV spot, whether it ran for one I would love to cut cable entirely and watch over the air but because of where I live, even with best antenna, I cannot get a signal. 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 !!! This situation has grown steadily worse every month and year. Each page equals about a minute of screen time and script lengths usually fall between 53-60 pages. Are you really that weak willed? As I recall almost of the commercials in the 1960s were one minute long. Is your bathroom closer to the TV? So for a 60-minute show, there would (on average) be a little over 15 minutes of commercials. 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!! I am almost off my blood pressure meds. NO COMMERCIALS NEEDED. I canceled cable last year and have Hulu Netflix and amazon. They said frickin at least 300 times I agree. greediest Coxxsuckers on the planet.WASTERS BIG TIME pharma ads suck dick. No ambulance chasers, no pill pill pushers, no car/home warranty sheisters. Dont they realize theyre alienating their customer base? Its because Disney owns all the channels. I cut the cord a year ago, in part because of the commercial load. Maybe the liberty guy hopes to get those 2 woman to pull over so he can pork them and cut them up with his unshaven face. I have learned to be very good at commercial cleaning. IM GONE. TvLand is the worst. If people like ads that much let them get a channel that plays nothing but ads. I watch up to 4 programs at a time to avoid all the commercials. I do not have a DVR or any way of recording..just a normal size t.v. 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. Best solution. Not only is commercials outrageous but the volume goes up during the commercials. Greed has no inhibitions. Doesnt seem that way anymore!!! Stop or sign up for some online service. Early TV credits had me scratching my head. Commercials there but not quite as so annoying -yet. Well some of them at least. I cant recommend it highly enough. I watched Big Sky TV show last week and timed the number of minutes. I also use the mute button but, Im tired of that as well. If you need news then use the internet, everyone has phones nowadays and most news channels will live stream free or you can catch the individual clips or read for a change. I watch Antenna TV network on the weekends, which is a non cable TV channel. The next commercials are in five minutes, allowing me plenty of time to polish the tables and start my laundry. We are the consumer and if we impact that which we are so unreceptive to by not watching surely TV executives will deal with it in a manner that will be acceptable by us. There are thousands of complaints about the excessive commercials the TV networks are running. Morning 1/2 hr. WebThe National Football League requires sixteen commercial breaks per game, with eight in each half. Liberty ads are really annoying too, with all that loud repetitive background music.. In 2013, the percentage of 30-second ads fell to 53% and 15-second spots increased to 44%," the story reports. Recognize that this is a deductible business expense. So, tax dollars help pay for advertising! local news. The trend is 4-6 minutes of show and 5 minutes of commercial.and on and on. The cable or sattlelite networks thinks that no one will ever do anything significant for them to worry. 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 Thanks for all of your time & work. The commercials FINALLY ended! The average time actually spent viewing the show was 6-7 minutes between commercials. 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!!!!!!!!!! Our cable bill is out of sight, we are cutting the cable and going over the air or even tossing out our tVs. The next commercial is in four minutes; I set up my vacuum and pick up newspapers and shoes that are cluttering the floor. Its just that, since we got cable TV, I only wash dishes during commercials. In other words, they expand the viewing time by almost half for your commercial enjoyment. 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. Hell, just a few years ago FX ran LOTR Two Towers, a special 2 night airing: 2 nights in a row, 4hrs each night, EIGHT HOURS to air a 3hr movie. Not the bottom 90%. ..and its getting worse, the story says. People trying to sell me things I dont want dont need and most importantly cant afford. We were sucked into to the BIG LIE of pay TV under the notion that well now pay for the TV service but commercials would be gone. In the US there are approximately eight or 8-1/2 minutes of commercials per half hour of broadcast television. The cable operators employ a large staff of highly paid lobbyists to twist the arms of these What their next move? 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. So sick of the same stupid commercials on the comedy network ALSO, since Im typing in this box and TRYING TO READ what Ive wrote I CANT SEE IT!!! CUT & PASTE THIS MESSAGE AND KEEP PASSING IT ON!! Almost all insurance companies ads have animal (and sometimes they are the spokesman). I watch General Hospital at 2 PM EST. I gave up on cable 4 years ago. That being NOT enough, they play commercials on the screen during the tv show. Theyre the ones who make the rules for both TV stations AND advertisers. 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. My first time here. Why? Bless you and your formula for resisting consumer propaganda. 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. If the 13-minute figure was accurate I would only see a commercial when I turn the TV on once in four times. There are only two countries that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); TVWeeks 2019 Media Buyer of the Year Philip McKeon, Former Child Actor, Dead at 55 Business Is Booming for One Veteran Media Exec and He Was Just Named Time Magazines Businessperson of the Year Three New Stars Join Cast. (A DVR just makes the viewer go back and forth too much) Im a retired senior and watch too much TV but Im going to the library more often and gradually watching less. I say God bless TMC which runs entire classic movies without commercial interruption. then utter greed took over and they pretend it;s because of freedom of something or other!! Im sure the shows back then were at least 50-53 minutes long. 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. If you think tv is that bad and dont like it that much then why dont you just stop watching it? Really!! 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. WebMost hour shows have about 5 breaks, but the number of breaks doesn't really matter since it usually amounts to 16-19 minutes total. Movies same format. It is 4 AM, so I dont feel like researching this, maybe someone else will do the honors. My wife mutes ALL commercials. I mostly watch Netflix and get my news streamed on the Internet. We, as human beings, watch way too much tv, and its been proven make us more complacent rather than free thinking, emotionally intelligent people. Thirteen minutes per hour? 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. Thanks for listening. But truth be told, customer satisfaction is no longer a meaningful factor. Do not buy from their sponsors and maybe they will back off on some of this crap. Comcast has a new dirty trick. 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. 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 They play on average 16 to 18 commercials per spot, and there are usually 5 spots per one half hour show. Youre right, Eddie. The constant commercials are just plain annoying. The commercial breaks are like every 5 minutes! In this insanely capitalistic nation, meaningful legislation to ease this torture is highly unlikely. We refuse to pay $100 a month anymore for TV broadcasting full of ads that mostly insult our intellegence. The average NFL game includes 20 commercial breaks containing more than 100 ads. And ABC is all about some crazy Hollywood stories-heaven help! I was inspired to come on line here after a deluge of ads on BBC America. Cord. Last year I pretty much gave up on TV. But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. Could not bear it any longer. Just what are commercial ratings? Whether it happens or not depends. FoxNews is one of the worse. the programs are so cut up one cannot stay with the rhythm of the show or the plot is totally lost and or forgotten. These breaks run Its a shame what it has come to..Pathetic A.F. But it is so not worth the huge fees. 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. our dose of corporate vomit (adverts) has been slashed significantly. 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. Uhh, they do. Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. Our days now dont have enough hours in them. you may all hate the commercials, but it is what pays for the programs you watch. Thats why I have a dozen old remotes with worn out mute buttons. I DVR a lot of what I watch. I remember when cable was just supposed to be for reception and commercial free channels! Not only is most programming very repetitive and out dated is the constant same commercials and infomercials. ASPCA LIES. Can forget HGTV and a number of other stations. My very biggest gripe is what FEW channels I did have, ABC, CBS, NBC, and especially heartbreaking, as it was my favorite channel, TNT,. How long before Hulu add increase to equal cable or ota tv? You cant channel surf anymore, all the channels are on commercial breaks. ASPCA LIES & grossly misleads in its ads. Please correct me if I am wrong. And for those of you willing to cross to the dark side, theres Kodi. OXYGEN CHANNEL IS THE WORST- ABSOLUTE WORST PROGRAMMING TOO!! Thats why the only way we watch TV is to DVR the shows and fast forward through the commercials. In one hour, 33-40% of the time is devoted to commercials. I say that tv channels should air the comercials the same way radio station do it. we can always go back to the formula from the 50s where advertisers sponsored a whole program, of course, if you look at shows now they are pretty much sponsored anyhow, I remember a few episodes of Burn Notice when Fiona got that Hyundai, and the blatant advertising was horrendously written into the script! The standard length of a TV ad is 30 seconds long. No cable, and sometimes no over the air television either. 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! 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. 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. What gives. As yet they have not choreographed their commercials to run concurrently which I find to be a blessing. Bastards, TV commercials are what the mute button is for. You need to have the dislike of commercials force you to stop watching? Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. by Alexander Pope. Many of them require additional paid subscriptions. 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. When I was a kiddo news-junkie in the 60s, networks did not saturate their news programs with commercials. It seems the ad companies and those pushing their products dont grasp the principal of diminishing returns. On discovery for example I may have to try watch same aired episode 3-4 times to see entire program just due to seeing same medicare commercial every 4 minutes. Ready to go back to broadcast TV. It does absolutely NO GOOD to gripe about TV ads on forums like this one. Do they think the cable providers care if you are watching? I do not have a DVR, but I do have start-over with my cable box. I record a lot of the time ! Weve stopped watching television in our house. It is merely a place for the broadcasters to offer an opinion or guests who push them or the show SO THAT THEY GET PAID. But I am finished paying for commercials. I wasnt going to bother contributing to this bitch-fest, but decided to post this comment after reading yours. I swear, no more than 45-60 seconds of show, then 2+ full min. So I guess we all agree Commercials Suck? 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. Especially with a Republican majority in Congress, the party that would eliminate all regulation. In fact the entire ad biz irks me greatly. 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! *Includes, but not limited to AMC, Chiller, This, IFC, SyFi, TNT, and FX. (Because no one would watch it of their own choice proving were not interested in them)! One minute of news then cut to 5 of adverts. GET A GRIP ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS AND TV CHANNELSWE DO NOT WANT TO SEE SO DARN MANY COMMERCIALSPERIOD! If half of the time is news would be it. Why is it that when the program Cheaters comes on at 4am each morning, they may limit their commercials to around 2 and then its back to the show. So it got too expensive for advertisers. All tv outlets are doing this now, Logo airs Fresh Prince in 45min blocks. That way I can select what to watch,or, delete the programs entirely. I just turn off the TV or change channels nothing is so good that you have to put up with that. Ive noticed that people present their beliefs, get attacked, and then the attackers get offended when someone says anything like What are you 13 years old?. I too have never nor will I ever purchase any product that interrupts a show Im watching with their stupid advertising. 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!!! The FCC? 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. One thing that is ironic: I do enjoy some of those comedy commercials from time to time. 4- This pretty much reduces cable requirements for computer use only. Yes, there is way too many commercials on regular tv! And more commercials are being jammed into that growing ad hole, with the number of 30-second spots decreasing while the number of 15-second ads rises. Thats every hour! You know, the ones youre paying for as part of your cable subscription? I mute all commercials, and if I do see an advertiser on way more than others, I never buy their product. I can make that switch in less then a second if the commercials continue. 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." Notice that insurance companies (looking at you geico, liberty, allstate, farmers, general, etc.) We overdo everything. Why dont they take the billions of $$$ blown on frivolous advertising, lower their rates accordingly and maybe save their customers some real money ?
