Posted on 03/06/2016 2:26:26 PM PST by Leaning Right
I have the amazing ability to turn my hearing off when radio commercials begin. My husband will ask me something about a commercial that just finished and I have no idea what was said.
TV commercials I sometime enjoy but don’t remember the product that is being advertised. I just remember the funny goofy people or the beautiful scene. “What are you wearing Jake from State Farm?”
It is pretty nice!
There’s not much in the way of content on the idiot box anymore, so the most common thing seen on my screen these days is dust.
[[I typically watch two shows at a time. I’ve been able to time it pretty well.]]
lol me too- With our DVR it ‘usually’ will allow me to backtrack when I hit the ‘last’ button ie I can rewind the show on the other channel- so when commercials coem up I switch to the othe4r show, rewind to the beginning of the segment, and watch it- then switch back when commercials coem up and rewind a bit and so on- takes a little logner to watch this way, but well worth it!
[[They’ll have commercials, then a 1-2 minutes of filler material from the show you are watching, then another round of commercials.]]
Yup- VERY aggravating! I just fast forward through it- I don’t even watch live TV anymore- either that or i watch turner classic movies- no commercials lol
Just curious, is Prime TV free or do you have to subscribe to it?
I use the DVR to record all the shows I want to watch, then watch them the next day, and fast forward thru all the commercials. That’s the only way I can stand to watch TV.
Meanwhile NPR serves up the liberal POV commercial free.
I remember as a kid marveling at the commercial-free cable TV offerings. My dad mumbled and grumbled that adding the 3 available movie channels drove the total monthly cable bill up to a whopping $30. Now, individual movie channels charge almost that much to give us a couple of decent shows and a few decent movies and a whole heap of tripe and filler.
They do manage to fill 200-plus stations with mostly uninteresting content. I dropped cable a while back, digital broadcast has led to a fair amount of variety.
Unless the ads are at the same time which they are doing these days.
Everything in America has become mediocre.
We have all sorts of great technology and such potential but, the people have excepted lowered expectations for just about everything.
This is why I never watch a TV show directly. I DVR and then skip over commercials.
Muting the TV helps.
Very true. As just one example, microwaves were expected to least 10 years. And if you paid a bit more, 15 years.
Now you're lucky to get 5 years out of one. Everyone seems to accept that as normal.
I know. I think I’m coming to the end of my cable days soon anyway. Its just getting too costly and ridiculous.
All appliances are junk these days.
Agreed.
1970s dramas had about 48 minutes of content and the remainder was commercials/PSAs. Most dramas today are between 38 and 42 minutes of content.
Old 1950s comedies were about 28 minutes of content. People who watch them on TV today may wonder why they seem disjointed. That is because today a 30-minute comedy has been shrunk to about 19-21 content minutes.
TV movies are about 1 hour and 24 content minutes in a 2-hour slot. Some special movies are around 60 minutes of content with 120 minutes of commercials/PSAs.
That is what makes Netflix and Amazon Prime so nice — all those mindless commercials are gone.
Rush Limbaugh’s fastest three hours on Radio is actually two hours.
Between the News breaks twice each hour (two minutes of News and three minutes of Commercials), the regular Obscene Profit Commercial Breaks and his narrated On Air Commercials that he always ties into the topic at hand (Lifelock, the IRS), at least 20 Minutes of each Hour is dedicated to Sponsors.
Pure Capitalism, unless the Serfs revolt. LOL
I’ve noticed with Fox News that the evening shows have a commercial break for about 3 minutes starting at 55 or 56 minutes after the hour, then come back for a minute or two of the original program, then move right into the next program without a break. I assume that is to keep as many viewers as possible for the next show—if there was a commercial break at that point they would lose a lot of them.
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