There is plenty of blame to go around, they are seemingly doing everything they can to drive us away
Desperate Housewives is an hour long show on Sunday nights. Only half in jest I tell my wife that it's the best 22 minutes of TV on the air.
Not content with just many more commercials, they are making full use of technology that allows them to put teasers and commercials along the bottom of our screens while the show we are watching is still showing.
Then of course the old standby, the commercials are about 20 decibels louder to the human ear than the show we are watching.
I think that is key. They probably want to drive people away from free TV so they can put it all on cable/satellite and charge for shows and not have to fuss with advertising. People are abandoning free radio for pay satellite. Free radio and TV of any interest are probably a thing of the past. There will either be free radio/TV for poor people, or, the Dems will make free satellite/cable a constitutional right for them. Available in Spanish, too.