NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE YOURSELVES HEARD AS ONE UNITED VOICE! We are paying a lot of money for our TV viewing, and feel that customer satisfaction in the most important. Personally I DVR everything or will pause for 15-20 minutes and go do something then come back and fast scan past them. A year ago or so I was watching Star Wars on a cable channel and I counted about 6 minutes of ads for every 5 minutes of movie. In fact the entire ad biz irks me greatly. Do they think the cable providers care if you are watching? Even pbs is loaded with advertisements. Absolutely! I DVR 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. Thats the only thing they understand. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Shelters dont have enough supply to meet the demand. The next episode starts at 3:42PM and ends at 4:12PM. 1- Many commercials are dumb as a stump at best. As soon the commercial comes on; I switch my tvs input to HDMI and block them out. If it's a show on a non bbc channel, then a You truly expect me to believe that, as 3 commercial breaks have occurred while I have been searching for the comment button, and typing all this, GMA and other shows are guilty of pouring over 10 minutes of commercials continuously! No telling how long the news will actually last. Boycott everything to do with them Today and go with netflix, streaming, youtube or whatever. The FCC has COMPLETE and TOTAL authority over them, so which do you think would be more effective at handling your complaints? Flood the FTC with complaints about this issue. I havent watched commercials in years, since TIVO came out. If only we could return to those halcyon days before big pharma was allowed TV ads. Watch only the first half then turn it off. opped.I use yo watch the View but commercials have overcome that show so I stopped.. I record all the shows I want to watch so that I can fast forward commercials. I only noticed it because some of the shows I was watching seemed to be going unusually ABRUPTLY from show to commercial. The commercial breaks are like every 5 minutes! My sense is that many cable news are more than 1/4th consisting of ads. there is way to many commerices on GH NOT ENOUGH OF THE SOAP SHOW I BEEN WATCHING THIS SOAP SINCE IT STARTED ON TV A LONG TIME LOUISE I WANT TO SEE IT ON FOR 2 HOURS EVERY DAY LESS COMMERICES AND LIKE TO SEE THEM ALL SING OUT THE SHOW THAT WAS SO GREAT AND WANT TO SEE LUKE BACK AND SCORPIE BACK THANKYOU. Additionally, I find that very often, time is cut from the movie or program to make space for even more commercials! 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. My biggest gripe now is after all the ads are done and they finally go back to the show, they are pasting ads while Im trying to watch. This forum has no authority over TV stations, nor their advertisers. That way I can select what to watch,or, delete the programs entirely. It is true that he advertising pays for the program. If YOU REALLY WANT IT TO STOP THEN READ THIS, UNITE, ORGANIZE AND PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUR LOCAL CABLE PROVIDER THIS JULY 1ST (WHICH IS A THURSDAY AND A BUSINESS DAY JUST BEFORE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF 2017!). It is now July 13, 2022. Their news is factual. Viacom currently airs the most commercial minutes per hour among the cable groups, at 15.1. Ever since the :betamax, technology has only gotten better. The comments posted here, if they were put in written letter form (NOT emails), properly addressed to the FCC would certainly approach the desired effect of annoying the person responsible for reading and respondong to each of them. @Mr.Zinda: But I am finished paying for commercials. 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! We not only are paying for cable, but also giving them 20-25 minutes of our time. I have never ,and I mean never have bought one thing that Ive seen on a commercial. Cord. 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!!!!!!!!!! In one hour, 33-40% of the time is devoted to commercials. Happy profits and goodbye! What will it accomplish? I usually go to the kitchen to make my sandwiches. 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!! The frequent interruptions also add to our anger and frustration. I no longer watch them unless desperate. There are only two countries that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. 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. Yes. I watch Antenna TV network on the weekends, which is a non cable TV channel. of commercials. Some of the actors had only their names listed (you actually saw them on the screen, but had no idea who they were) . I was inspired to come on line here after a deluge of ads on BBC America. 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. I give it 3-4 minutes and switch back. Absolute bullshit. 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. When I was a kiddo news-junkie in the 60s, networks did not saturate their news programs with commercials. I agree with all that is being said. I never realised how much utter nonsense was on tv. Web214 votes, 22 comments. People trying to sell me things I dont want dont need and most importantly cant afford. Back in the day when I was a kid (a long time ago!) John. my dad told me that there was an FCC regulation on how many commercials could be shown at one time. Ive became SO fed up with trying to watch a show (or movies) with the ever-increasing TSUNAMI of commercials, that I finally gave up trying to watch shows altogether on both broadcast and cable tv. I only use the TV for DVD movies where I can fast forward over the name promoting actors, director, etc. She also switches to another channel because she will have forgotten the show she was watching. My guess is that there are more and more shorter commercials because the advertisers are less likely to pay for them. I also use the mute button but, Im tired of that as well. Same goes for all the shows. I have kept it for my husband, who loves sports. Twice as many as CNN. The number of commercials has increased to the point where its no longer possible to follow, no less watch MSNBC has a commercial break every thirty seconds now, and you are right, we are the mindless ones but I cant find an alternative. Senators/Representatives? GET A GRIP ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS AND TV CHANNELSWE DO NOT WANT TO SEE SO DARN MANY COMMERCIALSPERIOD! However, we did Cut The Cable and revert to Digital antennae, Or Free TV, or Poor TV, as we call it LOL. Thanks for listening. We, as human beings, watch way too much tv, and its been proven make us more complacent rather than free thinking, emotionally intelligent people. PBS! Week after week same thing its so stupid and the same ones over and over on the same Show! There must be a better solution if they want to keep any viewers. The license to operate over the public airways comes with responsibilities-it was never meant to be 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. 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!!! Nobody does it better. I pay a HUGE amount for cable, with no choice of the channels I receive. 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. They show more and more commercials, I watch less and less TV. Once the gurus get their hands on your money the grip never loosens. I encourage all viewers to tell these heinous broadcasters we will boycott their programs if they dont significantly REDUCE the number and percentage of ads on their shows. If waiters and waitresses live on 15% tips the so can TV advertisers. Never will you hear of someone getting something extra from a service but I can find millions of overcharges made using that billing! 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. Great, she said. The rates go up, service goes down. : Is there any address that I can send my feeling about how many commercials are being played at one time on Satellite TV. They could run a ten minute news program, and use the rest of the half hour doing commercials, so that people could tend to their business at home, while the commercials are on. Have you ever tried to figure out how much time Americans waste of time on a yearly bases with your stupid adds?? The manufacturers of these product want to sell their wares, but to inundate us with all the hype and propaganda about these products, I am seriously considering selling my TV and start doing something else with my time. My wife mutes ALL commercials. I think we all like to sit down in front of the tellie and watch a movie, sitcom or the news without so very many interruptions. 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. or because they file a claim. I think well have a casserole, so I can watch Dr. Phil at 4PM. MSNBC unwatchable. (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. Commercial creep was a factor in my decision to dump cable altogether in favor of ad-free streaming services. After seeing all to the ads here, I now think we could do the same. over the years its got worse, now None are worth the bombardment of their commercials. I agree, I will never want to buy some product that I been forced to hear about every night over and over. How much does it pay? Oh, I dont get any money. I have been keeping track of the commercial minutes and programming minutes on DISH, it averages 5 minutes of commercials and 9 minutes of programming. The constant commercials are just plain annoying. OK we all HATE commercials but what can we do about it? I do not have a DVR or any way of recording..just a normal size t.v. I watched an hour of ABC last evening and the 10 (count em) ads came on every 10 minutes! There are some, however, such as West Wing, which can be as long as 66 pages. Its outrageous! How to really enjoy CNN as a male news junkie. 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. You trying to blind us? Zero stories about how insurance companies rob citizens, then penalize them because their credit scores go down (huh?) No cable, and sometimes no over the air television either. I assume its a matter of financial survival or rather profit-growing to keep investors interested in supporting the model. I like watching TV. and all of it due to GREED/their need to make as much money as possible!!!!!!!!! All these advertising scumbags should have razor cuts all over their bodies then drenched in alcohol. 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. But now I always have my remote in my hand. 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!!! Ive taken to muting commercials. I mute all commercials, and if I do see an advertiser on way more than others, I never buy their product. 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. The content lasting 15 seconds followed by 2.3 to 3.1 minutes of commercials. Thats truly sad. That makes the amount of adverts par hour at 9 minutes. How about socializing insurance instead of socializing health care? The IRS doesnt have commercials. Im just waiting until wireless internet gets up to speed and bye-bye Comcast altogether. Plus DVRing all TV shows is the way to do it. CNN has a quality second to none in its content and news reporting There is no doubt about that. It is 4 AM, so I dont feel like researching this, maybe someone else will do the honors. For kicks, I time the length of commercial and length of program. I am almost off my blood pressure meds. oversight agencies and they are on a path to kill the golden goose. It was never my intention to offend anyone other than news broadcasters that consider their viewers required 15 or 16 minutes of advertisements during their single hour of veiwing. It makes me not want to watch TV. 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. As advertisements increase the Cable Companys are making a bundle so there comes a time when the Cable Companys should no longer charge the consumer. TCM with its great movies, commercial-free. How long before Hulu add increase to equal cable or ota tv? I cut the cord in August, 2009 and have never missed it. Judge Judy has 17-18 minutes of commercials in an hour of programming which consists of two 30 minute shows. Advertising is EVERYWHERE, blighting the landscape and the media. Please correct me if I am wrong. What adds insult to injury is that my cable company wants me to pay for television channels that are riddled with commercials. REMEMBER THIS IS THE UNITED MESSAGE THEY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR FROM US OR SEE ON ANY OF THESE COMPLAINT BLOGS. GREED IS OUT OF CONTROL!! 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. True Roy. They said frickin at least 300 times Ill bet you every penny I have that Google has already copied and filed this post Im going to post and might even try to block me from getting it posted by not allowing my catpcha to work or simply error the page and clear the screen . Guess the last laugh is really on them. I say God bless TMC which runs entire classic movies without commercial interruption. I never knew, for example, that insurance and animals were closely related. How much is comfortable? 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. For kicks I sampled a number of popular channels* to see what the percentage of commercials to programming averaged. How do I block your stupid add programs??? 60 second ASPCA ads (God I hate this commercial with a passion), Shriners hosital, and ads for various lawyers, government insurance programs, bottom shelf insurance companies, and life alert programs. account for about 50% of all commercials. If you arent watching their every move they takes advantage of you. Heres a perfect example: one of my all-time favorite sitcoms, MASH, is re-run on three different cable networks throughout any weekday. I can on occasion listen to radio shows and hear the news. my money pay for ?My last Shaw Bill took 21 days to get to my Mail box. I recently got a flyer from a cable company offering some big deal special and when I looked at the channels offered there were only 3 that I would have even considered watching. Its rediculus that some commercials last as long as 7 minutes or longer. The broadcast lasted three hours and 15 minutes, but it included 18 separate commercial breaks that in total lasted 43 minutes not including the halftime break. Just watched E channel. Our cable bill is out of sight, we are cutting the cable and going over the air or even tossing out our tVs. you PAY for cable and they still hit you with a shitload of commercials every 7 minutes. Dont they realize theyre alienating their customer base? Im tired of being brainwashed with all the stupidity of the ads being shown. Last year I pretty much gave up on TV. 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. It sure does. 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. Most hour-long television series episodes will consist of a Teaser scene, followed by Act One, Act Two, Act Three, Act News 40-60 seconds news then cut to 4 minutes of ads. Bitching just reinforced the fact that they know you are going to continue your service no matter what they do, they hope to see these posts because youre the base they rely on for their vacations and private movie screenings, events, awards and ceremonies, you keep them in the same rooms with movie stars and other mogulss. I have recently started a website, the info you provide on this site has helped me greatly. with no gadgets. The ridiculous ratio between commercial time vs. movie time MUST be alienating viewers. I just complain to Direct TV.. but there all laughing at us. Especially, during General Hospital. 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. Not only is most programming very repetitive and out dated is the constant same commercials and infomercials. Funny because I have recently noticed that the commercials are growing there too. Try it. Still, I am paying good money for this bull-help is very much needed! CUT & PASTE THIS MESSAGE AND KEEP PASSING IT ON!! 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. I gave up on cable 4 years ago. 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. How much of your future retirement money are you willingly giving to advertisers? There is an insidiousness about this. Because i dont care how addicted you are to TV, the way this is going is pushing me away from the ordeal of it, and I know I cant be the only one. What kind of ridiculous joke is that? pharmaceutical, insurance and automobile are the worst With pharmaceutical being number one. These days, I find myself watching General Hospital less and less. One thing that is ironic: I do enjoy some of those comedy commercials from time to time. 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! m. The real concern for American citizens is the lack of FCC and State Commerce agency oversight . I too use comm breaks for household tasks. Stan. Thanks for PBS and thanks for recordings. 9 commercials in a row on KMGH channel 9 on Wednesday, 10/13/21, Why? The myth was that you would pay for cable in order to be free from commercial interruption. Frankly, Im tired of the Ford, Dodge, Chevy, Nissan, Toyota and Subaru commercials, as well as the Budweiser with its loud obnoxious screaming music. 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. I can understand if it was free. Our days now dont have enough hours in them. It's always "We'll be right back", and then when it comes back on, he spends 20 sec recapping the last 60-second segment. if the public hated the show, the sponsor was screwed. I DVR everything and FF through it all but having to pay attention enough to catch them all is annoying too. I cant recommend it highly enough. But to see all I wanted, I was forced to go to the Dark Side, A fireTV stick, properly programmed, gets me most everything I could ever want to watch for free, no commercials. Gone are the days when broadcasters believed they had s commitment to broadcast journalism and covering news from around the world. Movies same format. I have 30 second jump on my remote. The most aggravating offender was when I had Hulu, which produces their own really stupid ads and then charges you if you want an ad-free subscription add-on (which only eliminates their ads). 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. The number came out to 25 minutes of commercials and just over 22 minutes of actual show. Im pretty much done with that. Why dont they just run commercials 24 / 7.THEY ARE NOT FAR FROM IT ! 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. AARP lies & spends millions on its ads which flood the screen time after time, day in, day out. It is up to 60 minutes of commercials in a 90 minutes show on Comcast. He further said out of ten heavily advertised drugs four to five would cause major medical issues and the company would more than likely know they were a problem drug, hide the data and sell it anyway. WebThe National Football League requires sixteen commercial breaks per game, with eight in each half. Why? 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. Its called Infomercial TV. The commercials FINALLY ended! Here in the UK ,sat least we have some half dozen channels from the BBC with no commercials ,worth the 200 dollars yearly mandatory fee, all the hundreds of channels here are full of commercials,ads as we call them here,drive you mad . 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. 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. 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!) The FCC? So if you make $20 per hour, you should be charging $8-9 per hour to watch their commercials. I just got a 4k tv and I want to see the whole screen while my show is on. It didn`t take any time at all for greed to step into that game. WebStep 2. 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. 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 !!! Commercials there but not quite as so annoying -yet. Disney/ABCs THE VIEW is 34 minutes (not hourlong as proported); then they have 6 minutes inside the program (a la QVC or HSN) dedicated to View Your Deal peddling more products. If half of the time is news would be it. We paid to watch TV, not the advertisers. Allow me to reply to myself. Webwithout Ofcoms prior permission, exceed an average of eight minutes an hour on any one day. our shows.. Stop watching TV or rent movies. 50 minutes of musice and then 10 of comercials . For shorter TV show episodes like Cobra Kai and Naruto, there were three ad breaks: one 30-second spot before the show started and two in the middle that lasted for 60 seconds. 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. Then it goes to about every 9 or 10 and then during the last 30 minutes it is every 4 minutes. Manipulative political porn. Cant get much worse! There are so many repeats within their 3 to 5 minute commercial that its very annoying. Maybe theyre on a lot more, but we just cant watch all the channels at once. time slot to show 1.5/1.75 hour movie . Too bad great show, couldnt wait for season 2, wont be watching it on ABC. Plus, it chaps my hide that I have to pay for something and still have to endure 30-50% ads. Each of us only have a certain amount of time that we will get to live and be here on this earth. Boy, I cant wait for track and field, Just comment on Comcast cable TV- By spending so much on ads, they have in essence bought the media. If you think tv is that bad and dont like it that much then why dont you just stop watching it? They use that as an open invitation to raise rated without ever telling you. The world of business is, in general, a very pathetic comment on the human state. Things have got change , I pay to much for cable to be watching all these commercials. How many commercials are show on an average commercial break? Just to show you how much advertising length and frequency has Changed 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. Commercials have been a bane of mine for quite some time. So each 1/2 hour show has 8 minutes or so of commercials. As soon as a commercial comes on, most of which are about side effects from prescription medicine, I mute it and catch up on my reading or do small chores. I need ur help.. what is the standard rate of 2 minutes advertisement on TV and RADIO tnx.. 28 commercials on channel 251, August 27, 2017. Every week I see a top rated comment in this subreddit where people complain about commercial time. WTF! They show a lot of old 80s and 90s sitcoms on Saturday and Sundays. WebIn the USA, the average amount of commercial time is a little over 1/4 of the air time. I rarely watch TV now because frankly, its far too damned annoying. Americans need to stand together and boycott certain channels on certain days to show our voice matters. They have like 25 minutes of commercials and 5 minutes of programming. Not only is commercials outrageous but the volume goes up during the commercials. Who is the DIM-WHIT that expects us to see light gray text on white? Just as most of the complaints on too many commercials we have cut down on TV watching BY 70% In 2013, the percentage of 30-second ads fell to 53% and 15-second spots increased to 44%," the story reports. What their next move? My Doctor friend told me while eating lunch that if a drug was heavily advertised a patient should never, never ever take it. WebYou begin and end them as you would a sitcom, however there are no scene breaks. Best thing we ever did. Rather this boycott will only be effective and send a clear message to all those responsible for the low and poor quality of Television today if we stand united. Why cant you do like in Denmark where adds are placed between programs. The wash is started and I make my beds during the next commercials. Think about it. Whats cool about YouTubeTV is that you can record any program you like and just skip through the commercials as if you were using your old DVR that Comcast up-charged you for. 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