Community Chat

[MaggieToo]

My cable bill has just gone up again. I'd like to just have it shut off all together, but I watch TV all night when I can't sleep. (Which is nearly every night)

[TaxyLady]

I find myself avoiding channels that have commercials all the time. I don't mind if it is between shows but I hate being interrupted during a show.

[dmod nj]

On 3/4/2015 circles said:

All the ads have made watching any programming annoying....so much interrupting takes the fun of anything I tune into...and they are so LOUD...I have to keep my remote next to me to turn it down when the ads come on and then back up to hear what I tuned in for...

Hi circles,

I agree. The differences in the volume, between the show and the commercials, are very noticeable.

[wildcherry]

This is why I rarely watch my favorite shows in real time. I record shows and fast forward through the commercials. There are so many commercials, it is beyond irritating. My DVR is the best thing I ever bought.

[LilacTree]

I've noticed on most network shows, it's 10 and 10. Ten minutes of show, ten minutes of commercials. That's the worst, some are a little better. I give props to CNN, when there is important news, they ditch the commercials altogether.

[redtabby]

Years ago I noticed that syndicated shows had scenes cut to allow for more ads. M*A*S*H is one of my favorite shows and it has been chopped up for syndication, especially the little moments at the end that were not important to the storyline. I also noticed, back in the 90s, that intros were shortened, so this is nothing new.

[terrier3]

On 3/4/2015 Ford1224 said:

I've noticed on most network shows, it's 10 and 10. Ten minutes of show, ten minutes of commercials. That's the worst, some are a little better. I give props to CNN, when there is important news, they ditch the commercials altogether.

I was selling cable advertising back on 9/11.

All the cable news networks stopped running commercials. CNN had no commercials for almost a week.

The irony was that when their ratings were the highest ever, they had no revenue from commercials.

[sfnative]

On 3/4/2015 YorkieonmyPillow said:

They've been doing this for many years, noticed it a long time ago when I would watch a program - you could tell it had been sped up. Quit watching.

Yup, donkeys years. Plus, I was watching some program yesterday evening and their commercial breaks in this one hour show were 5 minutes in length. Not going there any more!

[sfnative]

One of the worst offenders is ABS's Family channel when they show Harry Potter movies. Movie runs from 8-11: an entire 3 hours and we know darn well the television broadcast of those movies contains at least one hour of commercials.

[terrier3]

The WORST offender are local TV news programs.

Inventory in prime time is strictly controlled by the network.

The local station controls all the time in their newscasts. I have seen breaks of 7 :30 commercials IN A ROW...before they get back to the ""news.""

Sports used to be 3 minute blocks - now it's 90 seconds.

More room to make money from commercials!