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Here's Exactly Why Watching TV Has Gotten So Annoying
Time ^ | MAY 12, 2014 | VICTOR LUCKERSON

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: advertising; commercials; tv
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To: Steely Tom

Kellogg’s used to be in the closing credits of the Monkees


61 posted on 04/19/2020 5:16:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012.)
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To: TomGuy

Other than live sports everything we watch is TiVo or streaming. See very few adverts these days.


62 posted on 04/19/2020 5:20:05 PM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: Fungi
Not you.

Was mentioning the scorn dumped on yours truly by the TV addicts. Now and then I get tired of the eternal TV show references to stuff EVERYONE watched. Mention not being one of everyone and a few go ape. Cannot recall who right now or would include them in addressing this reply.

Have had the same issue with "celebrities" and not knowing who they are. Even had a mod delete a post of mine simply saying "Who?"

63 posted on 04/19/2020 5:20:57 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: doorgunner69

I apologize if I got your intent wrong. I know what you mean.


64 posted on 04/19/2020 5:26:59 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: doorgunner69

The most annoying commercials right now, by far, is Liberty Mutual. I have to wonder how they can provide such cheap insurance when the TV ads are on every 2-3 minutes ALL DAMN DAY! How is there any money left?


65 posted on 04/19/2020 5:27:19 PM PDT by sgt_lau (Being tolerant to the most intolerant people on the planet is a losing proposition. Reject islam.)
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To: Leaning Right

Most commercials are 4.5 to 7 minutes long. That’s why I a wearing out my fast forwarding button on my remote. It can jump in 1/2 minute intervals.


66 posted on 04/19/2020 5:28:57 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: hercuroc

kodi is still up?


67 posted on 04/19/2020 5:31:24 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: wally_bert

tubi is good too, some good shows in certain areas


68 posted on 04/19/2020 5:32:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Leaning Right

Sure.

But on the plus side, laugh tracks are much louder and annoying.


69 posted on 04/19/2020 5:34:14 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: mylife

Yep I use apps like Genesis and Yoda...Exodus works too.


70 posted on 04/19/2020 5:37:17 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: SkyPilot

my buddy does advertising, I bitched 30 years ago, that I find the commercials offensive to my intellect.

He he said you are 1% of the target.


71 posted on 04/19/2020 5:37:45 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: a fool in paradise
On talk radio I’m not happy with all of the host sponsor plugs in the middle of the program.

My pet-peeve too ! I think Paul Harvey started this. So irritating !

72 posted on 04/19/2020 5:38:05 PM PDT by Mopp4
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To: Leaning Right

I don’t watch TV any longer for entertainment. It’s not the commercials. There aren’t any programs with people I identify with.


73 posted on 04/19/2020 5:39:06 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (It's official! I'm nominated for the 2020 Mr. Hyperbole and Sarcasm Award.)
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To: hercuroc

thanks, it used to rock!


74 posted on 04/19/2020 5:39:53 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: hercuroc

thanks, it used to rock!


75 posted on 04/19/2020 5:39:53 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: sgt_lau

> The most annoying commercials right now, by far, is Liberty Mutual. <

Those Liberty Mutual ads are deceptive. Liberty Mutual promises to customize your car insurance. “Only pay for what you need.” But EVERY insurance company does that.

If Liberty Mutual Is so willing to run deceptive ads, you’ve got to wonder what other tricks they’d pull.


76 posted on 04/19/2020 5:40:34 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Liberty mutual insurance has a commercial where the guy keeps messing up his lines. He asks the producer if can’rift’, didn’t know slang meaning. A few days ago wAtching a YT and saw the defintion on a flashcard. The meaning is to have sex with children! Liberty is off my list of insurers.


77 posted on 04/19/2020 5:40:40 PM PDT by Rapunzel (Fallujah be damned ...S. HelvenstoPerhapsn RIP)
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To: mylife

If you use Kodi get Real Debrid for it...its like 17 bucks for half a yr and you get much better feeds.
Well worth the money.


78 posted on 04/19/2020 5:41:57 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: LateBoomer
The main one is the durned annoying animations that intrude on the bottom of the screen during the shows.

Upwards of 20 years ago, I was watching something on FX. Hank Hill drives his mower across the bottom of the screen, noisily, iirc,

So, I stopped watching both FX and King of the Hill.

Didn't really miss either, especially FX. Had just bought a Palm and got the split timer app. I timed the breaks in "Kiss of the Dragon". 4 mins and change movie, 5 mins and change commercials, so the noisy ad trampling the show/movie was the last straw.

79 posted on 04/19/2020 5:43:12 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Rapunzel

I had no idea.

Thought it was just a corny commercial.


80 posted on 04/19/2020 5:47:46 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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