What bothers me most is that a number of networks edit as much as 15 minutes from a movie to steal the time for advertising! Allow me to reply to myself. Could you imagine a Navy Seal say Frickin??? Streaming services are similar to what cable used to in the beginning. my money pay for ?My last Shaw Bill took 21 days to get to my Mail box. I had to switch to Lester Holt, lol (and theyve got a full medicine cabinet too of drug ads.) Yes, there is way too many commercials on regular tv! Denzel Lafayette, of North Adams, Mass., was 22 when he drove to Bennington to . 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. 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. 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. 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. I guess we all should encourage the commercials . Look it up. Complete waste of news time. There is an insidiousness about this. Thats every hour! the programs are so cut up one cannot stay with the rhythm of the show or the plot is totally lost and or forgotten. 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. The underlying event is not really newsworthy. According to Nielsen, advertisers spent $78 billion on TV commercials in 2013, compared to $64 billion in 2009. people are trapped in their homes and worried about what is going on. 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. As yet they have not choreographed their commercials to run concurrently which I find to be a blessing. This was the case with the 1970-71 series The Immortal, of which all episodes are about 51-52 minutes. They show a lot of old 80s and 90s sitcoms on Saturday and Sundays. For profit, pro-corporate news will never deliver anything approaching the truth. David Muirs nightly news at 6:30 is absolutely THE WORST when it comes to commercials. The 16 to 18 commercials that followed were 15 to 75 seconds long and most of them were for health-care products and services. 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 . Totally agree, abc is out of control! PBS. 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. Thats when I wash any dishes in the sink. I cant watch commercial tv anymore. All it takes is a DVR or a PC and a liitle determination to flip-off the advertisers! Guess I need to look for another news source. I watch up to 4 programs at a time to avoid all the commercials. Nobody does it better. That is why they advertise. Last year I pretty much gave up on TV. Back in the day when I was a kid (a long time ago!) I am tired of all the feminine and hygiene products such as, tampon, bra, panty and the other commercials. I have just finished reading all of the comments above and not a single person is wrong! 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. The. Helen -you are ingenious! in a few more years the television industry with pass into history. If the 13-minute figure was accurate I would only see a commercial when I turn the TV on once in four times. Why dont they just run commercials 24 / 7.THEY ARE NOT FAR FROM IT ! My hunch is that the 13-minute figure is way low! 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. The only shows that should stick to the way they are now are anything live like award shows, sports, live talent shoes where the comercials are to by the performers time to get ready, ect. I too use comm breaks for household tasks. The Liberty Insurance ads are on at least 200 times a day. GROSS !!!!!!! Just finished the second episode of American Crime on ABC, I counted at least 6 minutes of commercials 4 times at least, possibly 5. Thanks, Beth. I agree, I will never want to buy some product that I been forced to hear about every night over and over. We are not getting the product, for which were paying for. r uou with me on this ??? Do not buy from their sponsors and maybe they will back off on some of this crap. Oh dear. authorities calling it a miracle night that everyone survived. July 20, 2005, edition of ABC's "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings", guest hosted by Charles Gibson. my dad told me that there was an FCC regulation on how many commercials could be shown at one time. At least they didnt have any ads for incontinence pads or stair lifts! Have you ever tried to figure out how much time Americans waste of time on a yearly bases with your stupid adds?? Doing this makes me even madder knowing that these folk lie to their advertisers about live viewer numbers. In other words, they expand the viewing time by almost half for your commercial enjoyment. I also mute all commercials. Even sports broadcasts are unwatchable due to the sheer volume of ads shoved at the viewer. I also pay for YouTube premium to avoid commercials. 2- When we watch annoying commercials I will go out of my way to avoid buying the product or services. So depressing! Why cant all advertising be put on a special advertising channel and not on regular tv? Its rediculus that some commercials last as long as 7 minutes or longer. They dont see people they see $ sign, Online streaming services surpassed television. My beef with World News Tonight is that they tease you endlessly with what you are going to be seeing. Competition for ABC includes NBC, CBS, FOX, Nickelodeon, Univision and the other brands in the Life & Entertainment: TV Networks industry. you may all hate the commercials, but it is what pays for the programs you watch. Whats worse is they play the same commercial several times a slot! This is commercial insanity. Ever since the :betamax, technology has only gotten better. S12 E308 Tuesday, November 16, 2021. If youre in the mood to write a lengthy diatribe anyway, you should ALL address your concerns to the only people who have the authority to do something about it: The FCC. Find more in-depth explorations of network news by following the links below: 1615 L St. NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036USA The amount of commercials are ridiculous! It was cheaper for CNN to just go back to Martin about every 7 minutes than it was to actually send a news crew out on a story to investigate facts. I do NOT have a personal relationship with my insurer (geico lizards be damned). 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. That man is beyond handsome and bordering pretty. Uhh, they do. The sort of funny thing is the people being targeted have no ability to prescribe drugs. Soon I transfer my washer load into the dryer while I sweep the kitchen and dining room. Ridiculous!! A sampling viewer should watch for 10 telltale tricks. 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. Sick. the new study on olive oil and alzheimer's and olive oil and your heart. Its terrible. . Additionally, I find that very often, time is cut from the movie or program to make space for even more commercials! You really do like numbers and that is good that there are people like you! CNN has gone totally political now, with the anchors boasting their ideas-not the publics. I have noticed a great increase in commercialson TNT morning shows and they are all the same old ones. Its time we start getting a life instead of being addicted to a Box on the wall. I am getting rid of the cable contract. 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. Upon your return you should have a decent amount of news with the ability fast forward through all the adds and guff this news opperater wishes to chuck at you..Nuff said. It does absolutely NO GOOD to gripe about TV ads on forums like this one. And I watched it for a while, just to see that it was STILL cut all to hell to add yet more commercials. (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. Fog late tonight, but a warm Sunday afternoon near 80 degrees. If waiters and waitresses live on 15% tips the so can TV advertisers. Many times the broadcasters are presenting it in a way that helps them to persuade viewers. No commercials{netflix}, cheaper, limitied choice yes but your not supposed to be watching that much damn tv in the first place. 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. I know I am in the minority, but commercials have never bothered me. 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 . I only use the TV for DVD movies where I can fast forward over the name promoting actors, director, etc. Our local SF Bay Area news programs are horrid. Early TV credits had me scratching my head. The next commercial is in four minutes and that gives me three minutes to run my sweeper and put it away. Tonight I timed the last 15 minutes of the ABC nightly news. I hate commercials so much. (Since the average audience data from Comscore is not broken out by news programs, the CBS figures below represent the average audience for 48 Hours and 60 Minutes combined. My sense is that many cable news are more than 1/4th consisting of ads. Really? In this insanely capitalistic nation, meaningful legislation to ease this torture is highly unlikely. Its not like there isnt PLENTY of other things to watch in the meantime! Ill record and speed thru commercials BUT!!! Thanks for listening. The other two health-related commercials featured an ad from Merck encouraging adolescents to get an HPV vaccination, and an ad from the American Red Cross encouraging people to donate blood. 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. You just came back from commercial 20 seconds ago! However, we did Cut The Cable and revert to Digital antennae, Or Free TV, or Poor TV, as we call it LOL. SOMETHING IS GOING TO CHANGE VERY SOON. I will mute the TV & go do something else or program the flashback button to TCM, where Im not subjected to mindless insurance, prescription drug and acne ads. Last year, the average was 15 minutes and 38 seconds, up from 14 minutes and 27 seconds in 2009, according to the report. I am 69 years old and handicapped, my only entertainment is television..well, I can only hope the greedy corporate heads will have nothing but commercials run thru their heads as they try to sleep plus end up with television as their only source of entertainment because of the same health issues I have. 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 . Ive been irritated by the ratio of commercials to actual news for quite some time now & happy to see Im not the only one. Detroit local channel, 2.5 hr. 5 mins of news 10 mins of commercials, they obviously need to pay for those big salaries, BS, BS, BS, a bunch of sell outs!!! But the length of each episode of the 2006 remaster of Star Trek (the original series) come out at about 48 minutes less commercials, so there were a lot of edits made. Just stopped watching MSNBC. How much is comfortable? The ABC is set to be hit with a major staff strike after employees voted today for protected industrial action over a dispute concerning low pay from management. So in terms of stand-alone campaign stories this year, it's been 234 minutes for Trump, compared to 10 minutes for Sanders. AARP is as corrupt as the many lying charity pharma & lying AARP adsthe money AARP spends on its massive ad campaign is almost criminal! Great piece, Jim. ), Advertiser expenditures for the evening broadcast news programs ABCs World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News each rose in 2020, according to estimates from Kantar. But it is so not worth the huge fees. So now I stream ad-free movies and shows for far less money, and am much more satisfied for it. Thinking you can run and hide from ads is simply foolish, everyone has already pointed this out when they say cable started ad free, yet everyone thinks Hulu and similar devices arent going to follow the same basic idea thats been true on every other platform since video was invented. The IRS doesnt have commercials. I listen to talk radio and in 1/2 hour there is about 16 minutes of commercials, the olympics on NBC is awful Im sure the shows back then were at least 50-53 minutes long. The amount of commercial time on cable TV keeps increasing as networks try to make up for shrinking audiences by stuffing more ads into every hour of television. So much Advertisement it covers every thing I want to read I limit my TV view on cable to mostly free movies on certain channels Tha t have no commercials. Yes, we have optionsshut the box off! Especially with a Republican majority in Congress, the party that would eliminate all regulation. I usually always watch two shows at once , and sometimes itll be three , so when Commercials come on one I flip to the other. Find news videos and watch full episodes of World News Tonight With David Muir at ABCNews.com. Sure you only had a few premium channels, but the whole idea was to just watch movies. Thereis no reason anyone has to subject himself/herself to Madison Avenue ad firms. The commercials are horribly produced for the most part. I think well have a casserole, so I can watch Dr. Phil at 4PM. 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! Plus DVRing all TV shows is the way to do it. Thank goodness for tv remote mute button! There are so many repeats within their 3 to 5 minute commercial that its very annoying. 90% of funds go into execs pockets, almost NOTHING goes to benefit the cause the charity was created to help. 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. Unless until the catch on and make the who show the same as the last 15 minutes 1 content time to 11 commercials content time. Better yet watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or any of the other pay services. Stan. I can no longer pay for TV and have more minutes of advertising than a program I am canceling my Direct TV. Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. The series, along with Jeopardy!, had to halt production due to the coronavirus. No telling how long the news will actually last. Its surprising that they actually find time for any news amongst all those ads! https://sites.google.com/view/hotel-managements/home. and your health tonight. View all posts by Jim Borden. PrettyWell. The most-watched episode in all of television last week was Tuesday evening's World News Tonight, which delivered a total audience of 11.23 million viewers, two to three times the audience of. Virtually all of the commercials were in good taste, the one. 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. 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. Mainly because of the time allotted for commercials. Start hitting them where it hurts the most, in the pocketbook. Weve stopped watching television in our house. I wasnt going to bother contributing to this bitch-fest, but decided to post this comment after reading yours. I believe he also told me that they were limited on how long the commercial breaks could be. There are thousands of complaints about the excessive commercials the TV networks are running. I remember watching Blade and it took forever, completely ruined the film. Same with corrupt Clinton Foundations & fat cat overpaid, underperforming execs. Tune in to CNN and imeadiatly set the pause button. 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.