Posted on 03/06/2016 2:26:26 PM PST by Leaning Right
Hannity on XM talks for 2 15 minute segments per hour. I don’t count that 30 second We’ll be right back break. 1.5 hours per 3 hour show. I record Levin and listen next day. His 3 hours takes over 2 hours to hear.
Just tape the show and start watching it 20 min. later - then you can skip all of the commercials - works for me.
Same here. End of this month DirecTV is gone. The Genie system is also really crappy. Will check out Roku 3. 4 seems to be very buggy.
Yeah...pretty lame batch this year, wasn’t it?
I haven’t watched TV - of any form - in almost 20 years.
Don’t miss it.
TV is for people to dumb to use the internet, or too financially irresponsible to pay a monthly bill.
Cable once touted no commercials as a reason to subscribe.
The thing that I find annoying is that commercial breaks are synchronized across channels now, so you can’t surf away from them.
The same with our family. My son has purchased Hulu Plus
which he is kind enough to share with his parents. We dumped Dish Network 15 years ago and when the local TV stations went digital we never bothered to purchase a new TV or antenna.
We don’t miss it at all. My late parents and I loved 60 Minutes but I quite watching it about 15 years ago.
Lengths of 1/2 hour shows w/ open and closing:
addams family 2... 25:47
simpsons treehouse 9... 22:48
Archer... 20:52
I’ve noticed the same increase in commercial time on terrestrial radio stations. Both talk radio and music stations seem to have more commercial time and less actual programming content than they did years ago.
And on weekends, AM radio is full of program length infomercials for everything from vitamins to financial planning to real estate to gourmet food.
When I haven't taped a show where I can fast-forward through the commercial, in live watching mode, a low grade entertainment can be had by muting it and watching captions during the side effects disclaimers.
Take Brand X medicine to cure that skin rash, etc and face possible "urgent need to go to the bathroom", "increased blood pressure", "liver and kidney problems", and the ever famout "in some rare cases, death." All for some minor ailment?
I record many shows we, the wife and I, like so we can zip over the ads tout de suite. I’ve long ago given up on watching many network or cable programs as they are shown in prime time. It’s just too irritating.
So when Hannity and the rest prate about giving us three hours of talk, they really mean less than an hour and one half. Hannity might be the worst.
I don't know about ten minutes of ads.. I once counted seven minutes of ads after his initial monologue. And then when he came back it was only to say "stay tuned for the next half hour." Where you'd get even less talk than the first half hour.
Fox News is one long commercial with occasional time out for program every now and then....
What gets me is the number of radio commercials that are “sponsored” by an outfit called the “Ad Council”
They are ALL in some way socialist or group-think or whatever. I do not trust this group at all!
Back then you had to sprint to the bathroom or kitchen for whatever reason to get back in time for the show. Now you could probably take a nap during the ads. It's like there's a program full of ads with a little entertainment between the ads.
On average, an “hour” long shoe is 42 minutes of programming, including intro and credits.
15 years ago they were 45 minutes long.
The DVR is the best invention since TV.
Listen to Rush lately?
07 after the hut till 21, then 5 minutes of commercials then 3 minutes of rush and then the half hour news from the locals.
Commercials at 55 after and then back to say, see you next hour.
[[TV is completely unwatchable—with all the commercials. You get 19 minutes of programming and 11 minutes of ads. No can do.]]
Three Words.................. D V R
Skip all those commercials!
This has changed of necessity. Back in the olden days like the 50’s people lived in small houses where the fridge was very close to the TV set. These days, with McMansions and other large houses, it takes a long time to walk all the way to the fridge for a beer, then a trip all the way upstairs for a pp break, and a short trip in to check your Facebook for important tweets and stuff. It’s just progress, see?
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