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Re: Ergen is an idiot said by funchords:Before cable TV, the television ecosystem ran just fine on 26 minutes of programming and 4 minutes of commercials. True, but that forced TV shows to have very low budgets, leading to less entertaining television that people only watched because there were only 3 channels at the time. As long as we're being reminiscent, let's at least be realistic.
said by funchords:Now we get 21 minutes of programming and 9 minutes of commercials (and that's not including the Informercial that is a chunk of the broadcast day).
Reduce the commercials by 50% and charge 2x more for them. You'll reduce the need for the viewer to hit the "ENOUGH!" button.
Now there you have a very good point. It's gotten so bad that I actually start looking at the timestamps between when I hit the Fast Forward button and when I can finally hit Play again, and it's hitting 5 minutes regularly on certain channels for certain programs, though I realize that part of this is because they've completely eliminated commercials at the beginning and end of the program and moved them all in between.
Game shows are worse -- I love Wheel Of Fortune, but I can get through an entire 30-minute broadcast in 10 minutes when I cut out all the commercials and unnecessary introductions. |
| What are you talking about. The last time I had only 3 channels at a time to watch was when I had 1 channel off of an antenna in 1979. After I got cable, there were MANY more than just three channels, and they were commercial free because we got cable... |
