Posted on 04/19/2020 4:25:15 PM PDT by Leaning Right
Your favorite shows are getting crammed with more and more commercials. New data from Nielsen show that the number of ads per hour of TV programming is at an all-time high.
Commercials comprised 14 minutes and 15 seconds of each hour of TV on broadcast networks in 2013, up from 13 minutes and 25 seconds in 2009, according to Nielsen’s annual Advertising and Audiences report. On cable, commercials are even more frequent, totalling 15 minutes and 38 seconds of each hour.
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Some guy did a year-by-year study on this. I’ll put the link in post #1.
He found out that:
1952 - 13 percent of the time was spent watching commercials
2018 - 32 percent of the time was spent watching commercials
How about it’s more than just annoying? It’s blatant propaganda.
When the Baby Boomers were growing up, a half-hour show was actually 22 minutes long. That’s about 27% commercials, although it didn’t always seem like that much because some of the commercials were commercials for other shows.
“On cable, commercials are even more frequent, totalling 15 minutes and 38 seconds of each hour.”
When they first started marketing cable TV, I seem to remember commercial-free television was one of the selling points.
The main reasons I stopped watching TV and movies was the actors in real life were anti-American and, two, they were jamming so much liberal b#llsh@t into the stories. Now, every commercial has a multi-racial couple and multi-racial kids or a gay couple. Or, they disrespect whites or men. I don’t give a blank about whether someone is married to someone of the same sex or a different race. What I don’t like is having it continually shoved down my throat when it has no place in the story. So, I read instead of watch. It’s much more satisfying.
Wasn’t cable TV (also known as “pay TV”) supposed to be commercial-free?
it’s not just the ads - the content sucks.
Everything new, especially in the last several years is woke nonsense. Both movies and TV.
I spent most of my time watching MeTV and today it was Bar Rescue because I can only take so much “I’m ghey, oh that’s so awessummm!” shows and that and the “ooo, Trump supporters iz bad” make up 99% of all plot lines anymore.
EVEN THE COMMERCIALS!
DVR. Westerns. Old movies. Can’t stand the virus news anymore unless there’s a call to arms.
“Your favorite shows are getting crammed with more and more commercials.”
Two words for you: Kay Bell
Still there. Just gotta find something to watch on the cables that still are.
I use TiVo torecord nearly everything I watch on cable because of TiVo’s skip feature for many channels.
I also spend more time using the streaming services than watching cable/network TV. Some of free-with-ads streaming services, however, are increasing their ad content and ad insertions.
That was like 40 years ago.
24/7 covid commercials
Karen Valentine was like 40 years ago too. Oh well.
See what they did? Now pay your $125 cable bill!
It’s not only TV, but radio too. I’ve gotten to the point of turning off the radio.... sick of so many dumb ads. Same ones day after day. On top of that, the radio hosts often do extra ads as well. It needs to be cut back.
A lot of TCM, DVDS, YouTube, and some Roku and Pluto.
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