..and its getting worse, the story says. What kind of ridiculous joke is that? In the US there are approximately eight or 8-1/2 minutes of commercials per half hour of broadcast television. Tell u folks Im a happy camper at 85!! 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! My wife mutes ALL commercials. Start up your car and wait until the ice melts off of all wind shields. The commercial breaks are like every 5 minutes! I give it 3-4 minutes and switch back. Best solution. Why dont they just run commercials 24 / 7.THEY ARE NOT FAR FROM IT ! Back to my soap opera! I just turn off the TV or change channels nothing is so good that you have to put up with that. THERE IS A SOLUTION SUPPORT AND WATCH PBS! However, what Ive found lately is that the commercials seem to be corresponding with each other I cant get a break. : Is there any address that I can send my feeling about how many commercials are being played at one time on Satellite TV. I only use the TV for DVD movies where I can fast forward over the name promoting actors, director, etc. it`s funny. I use to like watching CBS this morning but by the time they finish their 15 minutes of ads I was forgetting what they were going to show next. An entirely new business model is needed for TV. In this insanely capitalistic nation, meaningful legislation to ease this torture is highly unlikely. Best Answer. I cut the cord in August, 2009 and have never missed it. So it got too expensive for advertisers. TvLand is the worst. Not long ago I used a stopwatch to time the actual show time for Everybody Loves Raymond .. the episode airs for 36 minutes, but only NINE MINUTES were the show, the other TWENTY SEVEN MINUTES were commercials. End credits of tv shows were not interrupted by future shows. The FCC? One minute of news then cut to 5 of adverts. Increase in commercials? They are useless annoyances. I usually go to the kitchen to make my sandwiches. No and now Frontier has added a fast forward rejection for commercials. Just finished the second episode of American Crime on ABC, I counted at least 6 minutes of commercials 4 times at least, possibly 5. 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. 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. CNN has gone totally political now, with the anchors boasting their ideas-not the publics. No more dying children and sad dogs shivering in the cold. In an ideal world, a commercial rating would be the precise number of viewers who saw a TV spot, whether it ran for one Doing this makes me even madder knowing that these folk lie to their advertisers about live viewer numbers. Thank goodness for tv remote mute button! We were happier without the darn crap on TV anyhow. Freedom from commercials was the carrot they offered to switch from broadcast tv cable tv . I to, have never bought a prodect that has been adderverised. Absolute bullshit. at one scene Marcus Lattrell said Frick You. Think about it. TV and if I see a commercial promoting anything, I dont buy that product. Senators/Representatives? 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. I dont watch any commercials if I had to I would not be able to have TV. 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. How can any cable station, network or advertiser think that this approach will result in more sales? But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. 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. We will only have just so many days, so many hours and only so many minutes. Im pretty sure they have added at least 1.5 mins of commercials this year per hour. ", i was watching a cable channel program and there was a commercial break every 6 minutes, makes me want to stop watching tv. ASPCA LIES & grossly misleads in its ads. The wash is started and I make my beds during the next commercials. Ive taken to muting commercials. I am sick and tired of wasting my time and paying for adds on TV. They have like 25 minutes of commercials and 5 minutes of programming. AARP is as corrupt as the many lying charity pharma & lying AARP adsthe money AARP spends on its massive ad campaign is almost criminal! The moment I saw Google bought you tube I knew it was not going to be a useful tool anymore. No unsightly antenna on the roof or tower to maintain. Kick your cable TV to the curb. So each 1/2 hour show has 8 minutes or so of commercials. If it's a show on a non bbc channel, then a 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!!! They create ads and then asks you to pay not to watch them. A 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. https://sites.google.com/view/hotel-managements/home. No thanks Im happy only paying $20.00 a month and actually seeing things I am interested in. 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? The advertisers dont realize that people dont switch from their favoriite brand. FoxNews is one of the worse. Stop or sign up for some online service. WebThe National Football League requires sixteen commercial breaks per game, with eight in each half. For the sake of comparison, Ad Age timed the ad breaks on a few other channels and found them to average 3-4 minutes with the occasional 5-minute break. oversight agencies and they are on a path to kill the golden goose. Still, I am paying good money for this bull-help is very much needed! The End Is Near for Free TV. Cheers to all posters on this thread. How do I block your stupid add programs??? The number came out to 25 minutes of commercials and just over 22 minutes of actual show. too many commercials, I remember the day when I looked forward to turning on the TV to relax now I just stare at a black screen trying to decide if I want to deal with all crap advertisers think I need. You and all other TV program distributors odd to be ashamed of yourselves, but most likely it is an ability you dont have. 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. WE ARE RETIRED, TV IS GETTING WORSE. Then it goes to about every 9 or 10 and then during the last 30 minutes it is every 4 minutes. MUCH more productive. In terms of golf on the golf channel I believe there are more commercials than golf which is rather disruptive and makes viewing totally unfavorable.I would prefer to tape and fast forward on all commercials and I believe more and more people are doing this. Absolutely! Then proceed to the bathroom and complete the three Ss, ending with a shower. By spending so much on ads, they have in essence bought the media. of commercials. TCM with its great movies, commercial-free. Advertising is EVERYWHERE, blighting the landscape and the media. 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. Same with corrupt Clinton Foundations & fat cat overpaid, underperforming execs. 1- Many commercials are dumb as a stump at best. Greed. In the old days (mid 60s) it used to be around 6 minutes per half hour and about 11 minutes per hour. 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. Pretty soon there will be more commercial and show.. 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. If you arent watching their every move they takes advantage of you. Its time we start getting a life instead of being addicted to a Box on the wall. Could you imagine a Navy Seal say Frickin??? Its time for them to stop being so greedy, and provide a better version of the entertainment they claim to be providing. It costs for good internet, but Im done with cable TV. I also use the mute button but, Im tired of that as well. Her accent is as grating as the commercial breaks. CNN devotes up to 12 commercial in its quick breaks. 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. Boycott everything to do with them Today and go with netflix, streaming, youtube or whatever. 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. Remember when a cable subscription meant no commercials? Do the math,not worth watching unless you are hooked on commercials, not to mention prolific number of re runs. That makes the amount of adverts par hour at 9 minutes. Action must be taken for all these legitimate complaints. Plus DVRing all TV shows is the way to do it. With Medicare enrollment going on right now its constant all day, it is sickening and unnecessary. Like all other TV distributors RCN also interrupt their shows every 3-4 minutes with the most stupid unintelligent add programs. Its the same with the national news media. You trying to blind us? Can forget HGTV and a number of other stations. How much is comfortable? Do they think their veiwers are morons with large wallets? I get Amazon Prime free because Im a member (and use Amazon to order a lot of stuff). The average NFL game includes 20 commercial breaks containing more than 100 ads. I have noticed a great increase in commercialson TNT morning shows and they are all the same old ones. How is the word commercial defined? Doesnt seem that way anymore!!! I swear, no more than 45-60 seconds of show, then 2+ full min. Thus, a sitcom script is generally between 25 and 40 pages long. There is no escape. I do not have a DVR, but I do have start-over with my cable box. Better yet watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or any of the other pay services. You have to factor in all of the late night infomercials as well. Tonight I timed the last 15 minutes of the ABC nightly news. It seems the ad companies and those pushing their products dont grasp the principal of diminishing returns. 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. I record a lot of the time ! your lives will come back. One-hour shows, both cable and broadcast, now typically have 43 minutes of the actual program compared with 48 minutes in the late '80sa 9 percent commercial creep. So, instead of only taking the amount needed to cover legitimate claims, they take additional billions for advertising as well as for corporate profit. Also, the programs would end at the actual time instead of on the hour. 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. If you need a super basic outline, heres one. Each of us only have a certain amount of time that we will get to live and be here on this earth. GREED by the program actors and producers is the cause of all the AdsIt absolutely riduclous the number of Ads we have to sit through to watch a show on TV.5 minutes of Show/5 minutes of Ads,we get 30 minutes of show of whats supposed to be an hour show and 15 minutes of show of whats supposed to be a half hour show and the actors get 6 figures a show. And when you watch a sitcom its worse by the time the show comes back you forgot where they left off. 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. Yep, I cant watch the Golf Channel live any more. These greedy bastards better wake up, streaming subscriptions are surpassing cable satillite. AARPs rival AMAC spends its money actually working on behalf of senior citizensnot wasting multiple millions on dishonest ads wooing unaware seniors to part with their money by joining AARP. I would think thats advertiser deception and probably prohibited by law. Just shut the box off. This is so bad we all must demand less commercials per hour. It was making me psychotic. 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. I could be interested in watching them but stopped watching. I hate commercials so much. Every time I see that pillow commercial I yell out Take your pillow and shove it up your ass. Morning Joe is the worse. I suppose whomever dies with the most money wins. The typical short commercial break during a television show is between 15 and 30 seconds while a standard advert is between 30 and 60 seconds. How much of your future retirement money are you willingly giving to advertisers? 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. I find that I can usually watch all 3 of the major news channels at once and not miss much of the programming on any of them. It sure does. I have a method to this madness, I watch these stations and flip during the commercials: ABC News, CNN News, and HLN News. Ill copy and save it and try again if it does. Notice now how CNN has added Anthony Bourdain? No commercials. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Im tired of being brainwashed with all the stupidity of the ads being shown. And we can still watch 10 minutes of Good Morning America at 7AM CST, and have the next TWENTY MINUTES of commercials to make our lunches for work. One thing that is ironic: I do enjoy some of those comedy commercials from time to time. Have been watching over the air channels for a year because cable is a rip off. Those companies are fools because millions of people are not watching their commercials. The standard length of a TV ad is 30 seconds long. I would be curious to know if the reason for more and more commercials is that operating costs keep going up or if its going into profits for the cable companies and their executives. 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! Our local SF Bay Area news programs are horrid. Not the bottom 90%. I, agree with all these other vewers about commercials being out of control. So cable gets paid from us and through commercials, and nobody is getting off cheap! Soon my show is nearly over and I still have six commercials left to start supper! 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! 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. Morning 1/2 hr. 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. You would think that I should be entitled to watch commercial free movies. Perhaps Im wrong but my recollection is that there was actually a limit on the amount of time for commercials back in the 50s and 60s but it was removed by a suit claiming restraint of yrade. Im proud to say that I dont recognise a single advert on TV when I see one played wherever I might be. a marketing resource.. 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 know Shaw Staff gave me my e-mail That never worked from day one So Sea-Side Computers (b) This may be increased by a further three minutes per hour (5 per cent) devoted to Spots for 12 other advertisers ran in the break. Its getting even more annoying this year. Stan. Great, she said. Not only is commercials outrageous but the volume goes up during the commercials. Are you really that weak willed? Tell me why you FUCKS NEED SO MUCH MORE $$$ WHY ALL THE FUCKING commercials. 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?. What gives. I no longer watch them unless desperate. 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. I assume its a matter of financial survival or rather profit-growing to keep investors interested in supporting the model. Medicare Advantage, Sling TV are you ready now?, *Includes, but not limited to AMC, Chiller, This, IFC, SyFi, TNT, and FX. Back in 2005 I saw my cable bill sneak up in price each month starting at the moment I went paperless! I counted 14 commercial at one time. WebFor the 22 minute comedy sitcoms, they're usually structured to have 2 acts. See ya, I have to take a 20 minute commercial break! Pretty much the only thing I watch live anymore is the NFL, but even with that, Ive now started dvring the games, and watching immediately after the game ends, so I can skip all the commercials.. The practice continues because it works and again, it is a necessary component of the business model. Plus, it chaps my hide that I have to pay for something and still have to endure 30-50% ads. Commercials comprised 14 minutes and 15 seconds of each hourof TV on broadcast networks in 2013, up from 13 minutes and 25 seconds in 2009, according to 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 listen to talk radio and in 1/2 hour there is about 16 minutes of commercials, the olympics on NBC is awful I realize that someone has to pay for the freight so why not charge more for commercial time and have fewer of them? Now it is almost 50%. They are just using their collected info to do smarter targeted ads. Have noticed commercial are the same for over a year. 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. Tempted to actually TIME each and send in a complaint. "In 2009, 30-second spots accounted for 62% of all ads on television; 15-second spots were just 35%. They initially had one commercial every 15 minutes so 4 in an hour show. The consumer has rights too, and need help with this matter. I understand we need them (or at least the stations do), But 41 in an hour.. Thats pathetic.. Ilikebigbboob@gmail.com My first time here. 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. So many of us dvr and replay in order to skip over these interruptions. 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. No commercials{netflix}, cheaper, limitied choice yes but your not supposed to be watching that much damn tv in the first place. The rates go up, service goes down. How many commercials are show on an average commercial break? Ive cut the cord and now pay much less for far superior, ad-free content than I used to pay for 200+ channels of absolute crap punctuated by mind-numbing commercial messages. The next commercial is in four minutes; I set up my vacuum and pick up newspapers and shoes that are cluttering the floor. As a former radio production engineer, I cannot tolerate the current ratio of commercials to music and have abandoned listening to radio entirely. Cord. my money pay for ?My last Shaw Bill took 21 days to get to my Mail box. In these approximately Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. I would expect that advertisers will only throw so much support behind the rising costs of program licensing and production, so stations/networks need to increase sales opportunities in order to maintain (and/or grow) the return on investment. 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. 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. Just what are commercial ratings? A commercial every 3 to 4 minutes. Theres a far better world in Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. The other episodes were of comparable length. I do stream Netflix and Hulu along with Amazon as I have a Prime membership. I agree. NBCU sits at the bottom, with 11.1. Im paying $148.00 each month for TV and Internet. 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. WebIn the USA, the average amount of commercial time is a little over 1/4 of the air time. Why pay to watch commercials. I DVR EVERYTHING! The sheer number of commercials is mind numbing. I cant watch commercial tv anymore. The IRS doesnt have commercials. AND SO DO THEY , fucx corporate CHINA now the usa suks ass big time, CORPORATE FUCKIN DAILY FUCK THESE GREED MONGERS kick their stupid ass to curb ,GOD will sort these FAGGOTS OUT and be judged,,,,,, COCKSUCKERS. IM GONE. Not to mention the newscaster is CUT OFF IN MID SENTENCE. I get much better information from online news sources, apps like The Guardian, and from international streaming sources, all of which are free and are much lighter on the commercial load. 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. The irony is that consumer based propaganda (ads) helps sell the political propaganda that frequently masquerades as news. 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 watched Big Sky TV show last week and timed the number of minutes. So did it run 1:15 or 1:30 total. Free TV has at least six minutes less time airing commercials than pay TV! Even sports broadcasts are unwatchable due to the sheer volume of ads shoved at the viewer. I say that tv channels should air the comercials the same way radio station do it. I remember why cable tv started.. Things have got change , I pay to much for cable to be watching all these commercials. So interesting! Three letters P B S !!! GREED IS OUT OF CONTROL!! Oh, and lets not forget when Martin Savage was run into the ground OVER and OVER again with the guy in the mock-up cockpit of a Boeing 767 to make news stories well after the fact when the airplane went down in the Indian Ocean. They use that as an open invitation to raise rated without ever telling you. Netflix & Acorn as my streaming shows. I am a senior who is furious with the many. Meanwhile, on broadcast, Fox 4- This pretty much reduces cable requirements for computer use only. Americans need to stand together and boycott certain channels on certain days to show our voice matters. 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 Never will you hear of someone getting something extra from a service but I can find millions of overcharges made using that billing! Our days now dont have enough hours in them. Exceptions to this are overtime periods, which have none. If people like ads that much let them get a channel that plays nothing but ads. if the public hated the show, the sponsor was screwed. There are no actual reporters anymore WHO TRULY FIND THE NEWS AND DEVELOP IT What burns me up the most are the small viewer days like Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I rarely look at There are so many repeats within their 3 to 5 minute commercial that its very annoying. Totally sick of TV, I do not watch commercials WHAT SO EVER anymore. I do NOT have a personal relationship with my insurer (geico lizards be damned). (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. Satelite tv never came thru with their promise. I watch up to 4 programs at a time to avoid all the commercials. Maybe theyre on a lot more, but we just cant watch all the channels at once. Each page equals about a minute of screen time and script lengths usually fall between 53-60 pages. Those 500 channels we supposedly get are duplicates and triplicates. But now I always have my remote in my hand. Its terrible. Took about a month, but it really did work. Just stopped watching MSNBC. Thanks for listening. 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. Im sure its much, much higher, as in up in the thousands. The Sundance Channel allows me to do start-over and fast forward through the commercials. I too refuse to buy anything theyre selling Its been WAY out of control for far too long. 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. 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. Comcast has a new dirty trick. Better quality with clearer reception and sound. Our cable bill is out of sight, we are cutting the cable and going over the air or even tossing out our tVs. On cable TV, the growth has been even more significant, the report notes. 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