[oh8eleven]

Not only are the cable fees outrageous, but the amount of commercial time is ever increasing.
I swear, every 60 minutes of air time is consumed by 25 minutes of commercials. That makes the cable fees doubly outrageous.
My solution ... set a date, say July 4th, and have everyone in America cancel their cable.

[TomGuy]

I swear, every 60 minutes of air time is consumed by 25 minutes of commercials.

If you watch TV programs, say from the 70s, on Hulu, you will note that they are about 48 minutes in duration.

Today, a typical hour-long program has only about 39 minutes of actual content. Late last year, the programmers decided to expand their advertising content by about 3%, thus decreasing content from about 42 minutes to 39 minutes.

I use a 30-second skip when I DVR a program. Some programs have up to 8 minutes of advertising and public services messages during a single break.

Content is only something to fill the gap between advertising breaks.