A lawyer friend told us same lunch, that those drug companies had help put his children through college, med school and law school. Im tired of being brainwashed with all the stupidity of the ads being shown. Maybe the liberty guy hopes to get those 2 woman to pull over so he can pork them and cut them up with his unshaven face. The sad thing is I cant change channels fast enough or mute the damn things fast enough to prevent me from going into a rage screaming at the TV ( cause I dont want to hurt anyones feelings?) They would be very surprised to see these being young viewers since they have known those people where never part of the cable users base. You could make your sandwich, and eat it.but if you wait too long, you will miss the three minutes of actual air time, and be back to the next set of commercials! AMAC uses its funds to actually HELP seniors, not to rip them off like AARP does at every turn! Find more in-depth explorations of network news by following the links below: 1615 L St. NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036USA NR | 11.16.21 | 20:47 | CC. I DVR a lot of what I watch. Just watched E channel. I agree with all that is being said. Same with corrupt Clinton Foundations & fat cat overpaid, underperforming execs. Its funny that it is that obvious to an outsider. In 1995 the series premier of Star Trek Voyager cost over 23 million dollars to build all of the sets and then produce the very first episode. Candid, open and at times angry, the former presidential candidate talks about what went wrong and her fears for the . Abc world news commercials. 1876 hours 2 minutes and 52 seconds. What kind of ridiculous joke is that? However, we did Cut The Cable and revert to Digital antennae, Or Free TV, or Poor TV, as we call it LOL. And for those of you willing to cross to the dark side, theres Kodi. Its been WAY out of control for far too long. How much is comfortable? WTF! I watch up to 4 programs at a time to avoid all the commercials. GET A GRIP ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS AND TV CHANNELSWE DO NOT WANT TO SEE SO DARN MANY COMMERCIALSPERIOD! Now my rooms are clean, my laundry is ready to fold or hang during the next set of commercials. the programs are so cut up one cannot stay with the rhythm of the show or the plot is totally lost and or forgotten. And it made me NOT want to buy the products advertised. That is why they advertise. So in terms of stand-alone campaign stories this year, it's been 234 minutes for Trump, compared to 10 minutes for Sanders. I also use the mute button but, Im tired of that as well. Now you need a box so Comcast and like companies can not only control content but quality and up-charge for both. For kicks, I time the length of commercial and length of program. On top of that they show the same 3-4 commercials over and over again ON EVERY BREAK. PrettyWell. 2 minutes later, at 6:51, the ad break ended. Youre right, Eddie. I think that this channels target demographic must be senior citizens/shut ins/ and lower income folks, since most of the ads feature manipulative begging for money (ASPCA), products that aid the elderly, and medical information. authorities calling it a miracle night that everyone survived. That seems outrageous for a drug to cost $10,000 per month; I hope it is bringing you relief. I guess anyone who is watching ABC News fits into their demographic. The average time actually spent viewing the show was 6-7 minutes between commercials. But it is so not worth the huge fees. However, excessive commercials take away a lot from programs I enjoy. I tuned into my local ABC affiliate at around 6:45 PM this evening to catch the remainder of ABC World News Tonight with David Muir. One minute of news then cut to 5 of adverts. The news started at 6:30 and was finished at 6:59. And I agree that news watching is probably up righT now, a boom for the tv stations. The most-watched episode in all of television last week was Tuesday evening's World News Tonight, which delivered a total audience of 11.23 million viewers, two to three times the audience of. So cable gets paid from us and through commercials, and nobody is getting off cheap! Its past time to turn it off! The 16 to 18 commercials that followed were 15 to 75 seconds long and most of them were for health-care products and services. Day before I dropped cable counted 18 stations playing same show all day long. Do not buy from their sponsors and maybe they will back off on some of this crap. Our days now dont have enough hours in them. Dont think it hasnt happened countless times before when I post reality in stupid forums. Weve stopped watching television in our house. I had seen the excellent movie Jack Reacher, and recommended it to friendsI saw it was coming on FX, so called them to watch itI was so mad when all we got were interviews we had no interest in, so many commercials breaks that you couldnt remember what movie you were watching, and two brainless idiots telling us what the movie was about..DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!! Mainly because of the time allotted for commercials. Bravo, Sir! If I decide the program is special enough to want to keep a copy, I burn it to either a DVD-R or a BD (Blu-ray) blank and file it away in my library after editing out the commercial breaks. all that being said, Ive considered this myself, when watching my cable news channels and casually watching what pops up in the ad space, and I wonder silently, hmmm, they must not know that Im not in this age range, but clearly I am, and just not thinking I am. Better yet watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or any of the other pay services. The amount of commercial time on cable TV keeps increasing as networks try to make up for shrinking audiences by stuffing more ads into every hour of television. That is a good plan, Walter. Not only is most programming very repetitive and out dated is the constant same commercials and infomercials. To think what the advertisers can create and pull-off in one minute has always impressed me. Why dont they take the billions of $$$ blown on frivolous advertising, lower their rates accordingly and maybe save their customers some real money ? Nobody does it better. Dear sirs, I m assuming by your beautifully scripted reply that I do not understand, I may have caused great offence. It costs for good internet, but Im done with cable TV. All tv outlets are doing this now, Logo airs Fresh Prince in 45min blocks. Before writing a major complaint , check your facts. How long before Hulu add increase to equal cable or ota tv? They show a lot of old 80s and 90s sitcoms on Saturday and Sundays. Want to know why you get maybe 20 minutes of news and tons of advertising? When an ad came on my wife looked at me to fast forward through the commercial. I mostly watch Netflix and get my news streamed on the Internet. Otherwise I would sit and let the day go by, whilst the Boob Tube sucks at my brain! ASPCA LIES. Zero stories about how insurance companies rob citizens, then penalize them because their credit scores go down (huh?) Perhaps Im wrong but my recollection is that there was actually a limit on the amount of time for commercials back in the 50s and 60s but it was removed by a suit claiming restraint of yrade. This is cheapness on a grand scale and the average viewer doesnt realize that by having MORE commercials and less news, the news divisions also need fewer employees. Hundreds of ABC staff gathered around the country today and voted to walk off the job for 40 minutes at 2pm on Tuesday, 7 March. The constant commercials are just plain annoying. And at ABC World News Tonight, it's been 81 minutes for Trump and. These channels wont keep discriminating audiences for very long at the rate they are going down the road to commercialization. I usually go to the kitchen to make my sandwiches. My sense is that many cable news are more than 1/4th consisting of ads. In about 15 years most of the television stations will be gone because they cannot charge very much for their commercial space if everyone is skipping thru the commercials with their Fast Forward buttons. Happily married for 40-plus years, three wonderful sons. My wife and I occasionally comment on just this topic. You truly expect me to believe that, as 3 commercial breaks have occurred while I have been searching for the comment button, and typing all this, GMA and other shows are guilty of pouring over 10 minutes of commercials continuously! Week after week same thing its so stupid and the same ones over and over on the same Show! My friend says I only saw curvature because the plane's windows are curved. I guess its my fault since I am about eight months away from enrolling. Really? They make more money from advertisers than from customers, so the customer gets fucked with the commercials. Zero stories about how insurance companies increasingly refuse to cover things that might actually happen (black mold, hurricanes, etc.). My first time here. In one hour, 33-40% of the time is devoted to commercials. It was never my intention to offend anyone other than news broadcasters that consider their viewers required 15 or 16 minutes of advertisements during their single hour of veiwing. In the old days (mid 60s) it used to be around 6 minutes per half hour and about 11 minutes per hour. To pound in more commercials, why else! Each of us only have a certain amount of time that we will get to live and be here on this earth. I never knew, for example, that insurance and animals were closely related. The number of commercials shown in a typical hour of television has increased steadily over the past five years, the Los Angeles Times Company Town reports, citing a study from Nielsen. 90% of funds go into execs pockets, almost NOTHING goes to benefit the cause the charity was created to help. ALSO, since Im typing in this box and TRYING TO READ what Ive wrote I CANT SEE IT!!! ABC saw a 22% increase in 2020, while CBS and NBC each saw an 8% increase. I have RA and it costs 10,000 a month. This allows us to fast forward through the ads. According to Nielsen, advertisers spent $78 billion on TV commercials in 2013, compared to $64 billion in 2009. On that date it is IMPORTANT not to allow yourself to be sold yet again a cheaper package that they may offer which will only come back to haunt us all again. we can always go back to the formula from the 50s where advertisers sponsored a whole program, of course, if you look at shows now they are pretty much sponsored anyhow, I remember a few episodes of Burn Notice when Fiona got that Hyundai, and the blatant advertising was horrendously written into the script! Cant get much worse! Discovery Channel is worst over 20 mins of commercials per hour I want to quit watching, Look guys this stupid asshole states he enjoys comedy commercials. CBS evening news viewership grew 7% to about 5 million viewers in 2020, while NBC viewership rose 8% to 6.5 million. Why? A commercial every 3 to 4 minutes. An hour of United States prime-time television loses 8 minutes to commercials. What their next move? The three networks advertiser expenditures for the morning news programs each remained steady in 2020, though CBS and NBC saw increases in 2019 (12% and 7%, respectively). I looked this up and wrote this while waiting for some actual news on CNN. ABC evening news viewership grew 16% to 7.6 million viewers in 2020, following an 11% increase in 2019. You can connect with ABC on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In other words, they expand the viewing time by almost half for your commercial enjoyment. I rarely look at And the redundant teasing of a six word News headline, as another reader mentioned-is so darn annoying. Can forget HGTV and a number of other stations. It makes me not want to watch TV. I now have an antenna set up to receive local programming on approx 25 to 40 stations. And, despite what you might think, there is most definitely a Law of Synchronized Commercials! No and now Frontier has added a fast forward rejection for commercials. So depressing! If YOU REALLY WANT IT TO STOP THEN READ THIS, UNITE, ORGANIZE AND PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUR LOCAL CABLE PROVIDER THIS JULY 1ST (WHICH IS A THURSDAY AND A BUSINESS DAY JUST BEFORE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF 2017!). These ads were about 90 seconds of the 8 minutes 15 seconds of total commercials. But I am glad you reminded me about the brick-counting Ive got to get back to that , Havevat it. Oh, and lets not forget when Martin Savage was run into the ground OVER and OVER again with the guy in the mock-up cockpit of a Boeing 767 to make news stories well after the fact when the airplane went down in the Indian Ocean. I get so sick and tired of seeing nothing but commercials that I promised myself that I would not buy ANYTHING that was advertised by these stations. After seeing all to the ads here, I now think we could do the same. WE ARE RETIRED, TV IS GETTING WORSE. We were happier without the darn crap on TV anyhow. Really!! Our obsession with money is at a disgusting level. No cable, and sometimes no over the air television either. I suppose whomever dies with the most money wins. Its time to switch..thank you for your research, I was about to do similar tracking, but it wouldnt have been nearly as meticulous as yours! Because of all the commercials I cut my cable subscription to just basic and purchased a roku stick. I actually watched a Friends episode specifically for the purpose of timing the commercials. So Im glad these commercials breaks are growing and seeming to drag on more and more, like pushers trying to force products down your throat. this allows you to watch the program without commercials,,,,program is now 40 minutes rather than one hour. 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On Friday night's edition of ABC World News Tonight, Muir aired portions of an interview he conducted with Biden at the White House earlier Friday.. Muir spent a solid three minutes on the . NBCU sits at the bottom, with 11.1. I assume its a matter of financial survival or rather profit-growing to keep investors interested in supporting the model. For if there were only people like me than there would only be graphs that would consist of words like very little, not many, many, a whole lot, mega amount, etc. commercials were not supposed to be on cable when it came to our area, thats why you are paying for cable thats what we were told, now we pay high rates and the commercials have never stopped increasing in the amount of time they have taken up per hour. I am sorry if I have caused any offence. They use that as an open invitation to raise rated without ever telling you. I DVR everything and FF through it all but having to pay attention enough to catch them all is annoying too. Im just waiting until wireless internet gets up to speed and bye-bye Comcast altogether. And when you watch a sitcom its worse by the time the show comes back you forgot where they left off. The average audience for the four newsmagazine shows aired by the networks - ABC's 20/20, CBS's 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, and NBC's Dateline - increased for each network about 10% in 2020, following a stable year for CBS and NBC in 2019 and a 21% increase for ABC in 2019. Its getting even more annoying this year. They could run a ten minute news program, and use the rest of the half hour doing commercials, so that people could tend to their business at home, while the commercials are on. I can start watching a movie 45 60 minutes after the start time, fast forward through the commercials; and catch up to the live broadcast by the end of the movie. Second, I have always thought that pharmaceutical advertising had begun to dominate commercial breaks, but when you put commercials that close together it becomes painfully obvious. I share a Netflix account with my daughter and have recently subscribed to YouTubeTV for a fraction of what Comcast was charging. I only have Internet. Because i dont care how addicted you are to TV, the way this is going is pushing me away from the ordeal of it, and I know I cant be the only one. about the animals it claims to saveBig Pharma pushes deadly meds likely to harm or kill those who use them.. CARE, UNICEF, Save The Children, Clinton Foundations all LIE about what they doexecs get 90% or more of every donated dollar for themselves & almost NOTHING goes to the cause itself. (+1) 202-857-8562 | Fax But the mere frequency and length of the advert breaks makes the channel unwatchable. I better understand why after the news I was always sure there was some ailment I needed to attend to. Its the same with the national news media. How many years of the rest of your life do you want to devote to advertisers? I do maintain a subscription to Sling for sports, but now find it hard to watch even a high profile football game, due to the sheer number of commercials being pushed out. I doubt if anyone will read this.. "The increased number of commercials has translated to more money flowing into television. You'll have 30+ channels including AMC, A&E, CNN, TBS, ESPN, TNT, and many other channels. Find news videos and watch full episodes of World News Tonight With David Muir at ABCNews.com. Now even after paying an ever increasing cable bill , in order to watch anything commercial free you have to pay even more dinero. Majority aimed at senior citizens cheaply produced forms of insurance. Stan. Do the math,not worth watching unless you are hooked on commercials, not to mention prolific number of re runs. I listen to talk radio and in 1/2 hour there is about 16 minutes of commercials, the olympics on NBC is awful I find that I start to worry about myself if I watch daytime tv, which seems to be full of ads for aids to daily living I must be getting old! AARP lies & spends millions on its ads which flood the screen time after time, day in, day out. The FCC has COMPLETE and TOTAL authority over them, so which do you think would be more effective at handling your complaints? So far, its coming along great ! Flo has some great commercials; I did not know that about Bigfoot! Same as the Toll Bridge myth. MSNBC has a commercial break every thirty seconds now, and you are right, we are the mindless ones but I cant find an alternative. Seems these idiots still dont get it. Some of the actors had only their names listed (you actually saw them on the screen, but had no idea who they were) . ABC World News Tonight (titled ABC World News Tonight with David Muir for its weeknight broadcasts since September 2014) is the flagship daily evening television news program of ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network in the United States. The Liberty Insurance ads are on at least 200 times a day. Fight the good fight, tell the Networks and Madison Ave. to piss off! On the other network with the normal start and end times, Ive noticed scenes from the show that were chopped out in order to insert more commercials! In other words, they dont just break INTO a show, and then resume at that same point in the show after the commercial, but they break OVER actual show content, and when the show resumes you never know that you missed part of the show, it was just left out! You can watch ABC live without cable with one of the following options: fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV with an HD antenna, YouTube TV, and DirecTV Stream. I watch CNN frequently and as often as not when I turn it on what comes on is a COMMERCIAL. Posted Tue 15 Apr 2014 at 8:00am Tuesday 15 Apr 2014 at 8:00am Tue 15 Apr 2014 at 8:00am, updated Tue 22 Apr 2014 at 3:13am Tuesday 22 Apr 2014 at 3:13am Tue 22 Apr . If Im interested in watching something, I simply wait for it to come out on dvd, and watch it that way. News 40-60 seconds news then cut to 4 minutes of ads. I know Shaw Staff gave me my e-mail That never worked from day one So Sea-Side Computers We are already doing that they just dont care and since more people are switching to streaming they need more adds to cover their lost profit, hence more commercials per hour, I cant stand fox NFL on Sundays or Thursday night football bc they fuck with more commercials then football damn it. Popular here during day time quiz shows. What do you use now? Then the total commercial load is closer to 50%. 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