What TV has got to do is stop with the commercials every 2 seconds. If they put the ads on the screen like they do with the internet, maybe in a small box in a corner while the show plays they would get a lot more viewers. I was watching Fox the other night and shut it off, I got fed up. Commercials commercials commercials.
Back in the infancy of cable, I remember one of the selling points was that there were no commercials to worry about.
A “one-hour” TV program has between 39 and 42 minutes of content. The remaining time is commercials — roughly 20 minutes per hour of content. Many times, they have commercial interruptions with 5 minutes of each other. And, the final commercial interruption period has been extended to about 8 minutes.
In the 1960s-70s, a typical “one hour’ TV program had about 48 minutes of content.
Netflix has zero interruptions for commercials.
I haven’t had a TV since 2007. Anytime I watch TV now, and a commercial comes one, I forget what I was watching, and turn the channel.
I DVR Special Report, The Kelly FIle, and Kennedy's new show over on Fox News Business. All the info you want, and you can blow right past the commercials, Juan Williams, and the clips of the lying kenyan.
I watch almost everything on my iPad now. I have an adapter so I can plug it into the tv if I want. I can’t stand watching regular tv now because of the commercials. Besides I have a site that uploads everything as soon as it plays east coast time and I am on the west coast so I still get to start watching it 30 mins before it actually comes on here......and 0 commercials.