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Re: Simple solution... Go watch a TV show from 10 years ago, and then watch one from today. An hour long time slot gets between a 28 and 42 minute show, and a 30 minute time slot is getting a 19 or 21 minute show now.
As an example, mythbusters episodes from season 1 and 2 were 48 minutes long. Now, the hour long time slot shows are only 33 minutes long. I dont pay for TV to watch ads, thus, im not going to watch them. I compare this to the pop-up wars on the internet from the late 90s. We found a way to kill the popups, just like we found a way to kill the ads, and what did the industry do? they added more popups trying to get around popup blockers, so thusly, they have added more commercial/ad space to their timeslots. How long before its a timeslot of commercials with an 18 minute show? |
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 BlitzenZeusBurnt Out CynicPremium
join:2000-01-13
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| When it comes to the internet, we don't pay for most sites so we accept some ads, we accept ads for ota tv as we don't pay for that either. When we pay for tv, and we have to accept as much advertising as the content we want to watch it doesn't make sense. They are being paid for their content on a large scale, and far too often advertisers control what the channels provide as content.
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I distrust those people who know so well what god wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires- Susan B. Anthony
Yesterday we obeyed kings, and bent out necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to the truth- Kahlil G. |
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| reply to Chubbysumo
Huh, well that would explain that. When checking the guide a week or two ago I recorded two Mythbusters episodes, after having not seen the show in a long time. I thought I was hitting the fast-forward button an awful lot more than usual.
The worst advertising abuse I've ever seen was a few months ago when I tried watching an old episode of "Murder, She Wrote" on the TV Land channel (don't judge, my mom loved the series years ago and I found it vaguely interesting and decided to watch one episode on my own). Wikipedia says that the hour-long programs had 40 minutes of actual content, which isn't the best ratio but not too terrible. Then I realized that the listing on the TV guide wasn't for 60 minutes, but for 72. There were 40 minutes of programming for 32 minutes of advertising, or as a percentage, 44% of the runtime of this rerun was taken up by commercials. I noticed that several of the commercial breaks weren't even included in the original program, which greatly broke up the story's flow. Why on earth would I bother watching this program live, actually watching the commercials, when my viewing experience has been so completely !@#$ upon? |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to Chubbysumo
said by Chubbysumo:Go watch a TV show from 10 years ago, and then watch one from today. An hour long time slot gets between a 28 and 42 minute show,
BS. There isn't an hour long show that is only 28 minutes. Most are about the same and they about the same as they were in 2002. |
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| said by BF69:said by Chubbysumo:Go watch a TV show from 10 years ago, and then watch one from today. An hour long time slot gets between a 28 and 42 minute show,
BS. There isn't an hour long show that is only 28 minutes. Most are about the same and they about the same as they were in 2002. It looks like a typo. From the rest of the post, it's clear to me Chubbysumo meant: ... 38 and 42 minute show... |
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