Same with corrupt Clinton Foundations & fat cat overpaid, underperforming execs. Airing during the early morning hours each Monday through Friday, the program features a mix of general news and off-beat stories, along with weather forecasts, sports highlights, feature segments, and repurposed segments and story packages from other ABC News programs; its tone is often lighthearted, irreverent and humorous. ~Ben , This insane amount of drug commercials can make you feel sick. Those companies are fools because millions of people are not watching their commercials. But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. 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. If the 13-minute figure was accurate I would only see a commercial when I turn the TV on once in four times. You have to factor in all of the late night infomercials as well. In addition to that I do watch international programming on a free site that does have some commercials, but I do quick chores when the ads come on. Even PBS has ads. I am sick and tired of wasting my time and paying for adds on TV. I also noted that it seems the commercials are likely targeting people who have access to doctors and drugs, which I assume tends to skew a bit older. I was inspired to come on line here after a deluge of ads on BBC America. Great observations, Jim. I mostly watch Netflix and get my news streamed on the Internet. Commercial creep was a factor in my decision to dump cable altogether in favor of ad-free streaming services. I DVR a lot of what I watch. The FCC? I can understand if it was free. Ahead of Election Day, a record 244,000 early vote were cast. So it got too expensive for advertisers. I have noticed a great increase in commercialson TNT morning shows and they are all the same old ones. You would think that with age comes wisdom and the fact that these people post here is a good tool for companies to get a feel of who they are dealing with and can make adjustments at different levels in an effort to keep these customers no matter what it takes. Sure you only had a few premium channels, but the whole idea was to just watch movies. So now I stream ad-free movies and shows for far less money, and am much more satisfied for it. Maybe its time to see for myself. The weather man needs to slow down when speaking. Do many of the drug names sound the same? Three letters P B S !!! We not only are paying for cable, but also giving them 20-25 minutes of our time. In an hour of scripted television shows such as dramas and sitcoms, commercials take up 6 minutes, according MarketingCharts. Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. Its a classic pull strategy, and it seems like drug prices are always going up. So in terms of stand-alone campaign stories this year, it's been 234 minutes for Trump, compared to 10 minutes for Sanders. The world of business is, in general, a very pathetic comment on the human state. Morning Joe is the worse. Its time we start getting a life instead of being addicted to a Box on the wall. Great, she said. MSNBC unwatchable. I looked this up and wrote this while waiting for some actual news on CNN. Not only do we pay for the privilege of watching all these commercials, the newscasters are now being forced to speak so fast to allow more space for advertising! abbvie ceo richard gonzalez wife; how far is haddonfield, illinois from chicago The ads are stupid, monotonous, even condescending to men, who are made to look like worthless, bumbling fools or worseAARP ads flood the screen, dishonest PCH ads claim to offer money no one ever wins(have you ever heard of anyone winning any PCH prizes? I promise you that over 15 minutes of the half hour show was ad time. Flo has some great commercials; I did not know that about Bigfoot! These days, cheap is in. The number of commercials has increased to the point where its no longer possible to follow, no less watch That makes the amount of adverts par hour at 9 minutes. in a few more years the television industry with pass into history. On cable TV, the growth has been even more significant, the report notes. The next commercials are in five minutes, allowing me plenty of time to polish the tables and start my laundry. I am struck by a number of things from your research. This channel is RIDDLED with what seems like only the following commercials. I am almost off my blood pressure meds. This is in Canada using telus. 1- Many commercials are dumb as a stump at best. Shelters dont have enough supply to meet the demand. I am getting rid of the cable contract. I watched Big Sky TV show last week and timed the number of minutes. I turn off the sound and get up and do something around the house during the times (at the end of the hour) when there are the most commercials between shows. A lawyer friend told us same lunch, that those drug companies had help put his children through college, med school and law school. 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. This might be a good thing as we free ourselves from the idiot box and start taking in our surroundings. .. .. .. Sure they will laugh but if enough people start calling and demanding this, IT WILL GET DONE. Ha! 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. Mainly because of the time allotted for commercials. MY GOOD GOD so much time is wasted on non-programs, the very programs we PAY to watch. Could not bear it any longer. What kind of ridiculous joke is that? A Russian column of troops and tanks was captured via satellite - extending for more than 3.25 miles; The US will send almost $54 million (40 million) in humanitarian aid to Ukraine to assist . Less money and no ads {except Hulu). I suppose whomever dies with the most money wins. In a significant move, ABC News chief White House correspondent Cecilia Vega is departing the network to join CBS News, where she will be a correspondent on 60 Minutes. Whats worse is they play the same commercial several times a slot! Explore the patterns and longitudinal data about network TV news below. 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 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. 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. According to the data, A&E Group 17 minutes and . In the old days (mid 60s) it used to be around 6 minutes per half hour and about 11 minutes per hour. Ill record and speed thru commercials BUT!!! Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says. Fox news is just as bad, as in MSNBC. CNN devotes up to 12 commercial in its quick breaks. The greed of TV networks has overrun our program viewing. As for TV, I enjoyed TCMs commercial-free screenings of classic films, but realized I was overpaying for the amount of time I watched the channel. the network is pleased as punch to fill their ad space and rake in the revenue, while many other businesses are struggling, they are booming. 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. 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. Thank God for Netflix and channels like HBO because paying to not have to see any commercials is more then worth it. For profit, pro-corporate news will never deliver anything approaching the truth. So cable gets paid from us and through commercials, and nobody is getting off cheap! The advertisers dont realize that people dont switch from their favoriite brand. Perhaps there are also in-house commercials for the network pushing itself constantly. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Its funny that it is that obvious to an outsider. I have two collector cars I tinker with. They said frickin at least 300 times Average audiences for morning news programs from ABC, CBS and NBC remained mostly steady in 2020, with CBS seeing a slight (5%) decline in morning news viewership. Back to my soap opera! Vega, a veteran TV anchor . you PAY for cable and they still hit you with a shitload of commercials every 7 minutes. 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. Its ridiculous that the amount of ads/commercials that continue to explode. I rarely look at I guess anyone who is watching ABC News fits into their demographic. Bless you and your formula for resisting consumer propaganda. I can on occasion listen to radio shows and hear the news. On that date it is IMPORTANT not to allow yourself to be sold yet again a cheaper package that they may offer which will only come back to haunt us all again. Thats when I wash any dishes in the sink. One more thing I noticed was the posts tend to be written by older people, mostly women. The average audience for the four newsmagazine shows aired by the networks ABCs 20/20, CBSs 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, and NBCs Dateline increased for each network about 10% in 2020, following a stable year for CBS and NBC in 2019 and a 21% increase for ABC in 2019. I had to switch to Lester Holt, lol (and theyve got a full medicine cabinet too of drug ads.) I do not have a DVR, but I do have start-over with my cable box. Of the 13 commercials, 9 were health-related and featured the following pharmaceutical and over the counter products: Rinvoq for rheumatoid arthritis, Entyvio for Crohns and ulcerative colitis, Otezla for psoriasis, Eliquis for a-fib, Dulcolax for constipation, Aspercreme for aches and pains, and Trulicity for type 2 diabetes. 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. @Mr.Zinda: Allow me to reply to myself. 4. NO COMMERCIALS NEEDED. So, sponsors became alternate week sponsors and now participating sponsor (an ad here an ad there). 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. No commercials. These days, I find myself watching General Hospital less and less. It seems the ad companies and those pushing their products dont grasp the principal of diminishing returns. As I recall almost of the commercials in the 1960s were one minute long. Senators/Representatives? Pro football's 2022-23 season has come to an end, and the most devoted fans will have to put up with basketball, hockey and baseball until the next Super Bowl set for Feb. 11, 2024, in Las . Detroit local channel, 2.5 hr. I was watching the season finale of agents of shield, for an hour long show the actual show only showed in 5 minute intervals, the commercials lasted 10-12 minutes. ABC David Muir News last 16 minutes 75% commercials Keep fast forward handy !!! here is one of several. This situation has grown steadily worse every month and year. Then Comcast will be forced once again to treat their customers with respect as they used to. I watched Lone Survivor on demand on comcast AARP is as corrupt as the many lying charity pharma & lying AARP adsthe money AARP spends on its massive ad campaign is almost criminal! 6:30 a.m. 100 vehicles stuck at Top of the World Lookout in . However, excessive commercials take away a lot from programs I enjoy. Doesnt seem that way anymore!!! Before writing a major complaint , check your facts. The End Is Near for Free TV. I watch up to 4 programs at a time to avoid all the commercials. If that is still the case most of the channels are not following that. I seem to recall that Saint Ronald Reagan deregulated, along with much else, the maximum commercial time on television. This is so bad we all must demand less commercials per hour. I sure have not!) I watch Antenna TV network on the weekends, which is a non cable TV channel. How about a government run insurance that only takes premiums to cover claims, and administrative costs, and returns ALL extra monies on a pro rata basis back to the customers? Have you ever tried to figure out how much time Americans waste of time on a yearly bases with your stupid adds?? 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. Try it. In 1995 the series premier of Star Trek Voyager cost over 23 million dollars to build all of the sets and then produce the very first episode. Commercials have been a bane of mine for quite some time. If people like ads that much let them get a channel that plays nothing but ads. 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. On Location: February 24, 2023. And when you watch a sitcom its worse by the time the show comes back you forgot where they left off. It is amazing how many drug commercials are on TV says something about our health and our health care system. Then proceed to the bathroom and complete the three Ss, ending with a shower. plus, a severe thunderstorm watch at this hour in parts of the south. But I am glad you reminded me about the brick-counting Ive got to get back to that , Havevat it. My first time here. Heres a perfect example: one of my all-time favorite sitcoms, MASH, is re-run on three different cable networks throughout any weekday. Just watch the chiller channel. Theyll ride that horse until it drops dead on them. I wonder if the PBS newshour is any different. I either watch DVDs or stream commercial free from Netflix or Hulu. have now turned to FOOTBALL, NASCAR, GOLF, HELL, any sports that please the male populationwomen may have won the vote, but thats all we have won..it is a mans world.a RICH mans world, I am sad at how our once wonderful world has changed to greed and the ruthless rich who control everything. 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. Actuality. That set the template for everything that has happened since then, and somehow people have forgotten it. Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. I always mute them, I will come back into the room just to mute them. All fluff. So the two join forces and overwhelm us with their messages. I, like so many others, have NEVER bought anything they advertise and never will.whats the point? In a one hour show, one is lucky to have 20 minutes of movie/tv show and 40 minutes of commercials. Morning 1/2 hr. He did this during his first days in office. By spending so much on ads, they have in essence bought the media. 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. I simply cant sit through a half hour sitcom for example, and watch 10-11 minutes of commercials. A commercial every 3 to 4 minutes. 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!!! Zero stories about how insurance companies increasingly refuse to cover things that might actually happen (black mold, hurricanes, etc.). 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. I get so sick and tired of seeing nothing but commercials that I promised myself that I would not buy ANYTHING that was advertised by these stations. CNN has a quality second to none in its content and news reporting There is no doubt about that. I watch General Hospital at 2 PM EST. They show more and more commercials, I watch less and less TV. my money pay for ?My last Shaw Bill took 21 days to get to my Mail box. Yes, I have to agree with you. That is a good plan, Walter. .. .. .. Sorry, but no. ABC News Live brings you in-depth reporting and storytelling from across the country and around the world Watch the FX and Hulu documentary film The New York Times Presents. "It's crazy," said Westbrook, who started and had 17 points, 14 assists and seven turnovers in 39 minutes before fouling out with 1:49 remaining in the second overtime. 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. Liberty ads are really annoying too, with all that loud repetitive background music.. It would, if Id actually believed any of it. So once it was over I decided to watch it again, and write down how many commercials there were, how long each one aired, and what the commercial was for. We will only have just so many days, so many hours and only so many minutes. (Average audience is defined as the average number of TVs tuned to a program throughout a time period.). Instead of about 20 total names, now everyone who did anything during the production gets credit for it, but their names are zapped so fast and small you wont know anyway. You could make your sandwich, and eat it.but if you wait too long, you will miss the three minutes of actual air time, and be back to the next set of commercials! 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