next here, the major storm on the move tonight. Love ABC news , but not pleased with the advertising. Back in the day when I was a kid (a long time ago!) I will mute the TV & go do something else or program the flashback button to TCM, where Im not subjected to mindless insurance, prescription drug and acne ads. 38 minutes before ABC news broke the story about Epstein's death it was already being reported on the infamous website 4chan.After learning of the post a review was conducted by the FDNY and they concluded none of their employees were behind the post on 4chan.9 months later and the mystery of who made that post is still alive and well.On . It is true that he advertising pays for the program. The commercial breaks are like every 5 minutes! Since, almost everybody is paying for cable, dish, & satellite; it should be a class action lawsuit , if we are forced to watch more commercials, than the t.v. It costs for good internet, but Im done with cable TV. Last Sunday we tried to watch the ABC Sunday night Movie. The total time spent on previewing the story ends up being just as long as the story itself. What will it accomplish? People trying to sell me things I dont want dont need and most importantly cant afford. Find more in-depth explorations of network news by following the links below: 1615 L St. NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036USA I told my family and friends its time to shut it all down and watch C.D.s I have I pride myself on having this information. I graduated college in 1993 with Communications major radio and television all of the instructors told us commercials who would be gone and the not too distant future boy were they full of BS. ABC News Live brings you in-depth reporting and storytelling from across the country and around the world Watch the FX and Hulu documentary film The New York Times Presents. I mostly watch Netflix and get my news streamed on the Internet. Thirteen minutes per hour? 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. 13 to 14 minutes of commercials per hour!? Too many adsfar too many dishonest ads & profligate lies, l4ies & more LIES! Im sure its much, much higher, as in up in the thousands. Three letters P B S !!! Do not buy from their sponsors and maybe they will back off on some of this crap. We were sucked into to the BIG LIE of pay TV under the notion that well now pay for the TV service but commercials would be gone. It just made me pity the people who hung on its every word. The FCC? I too have never nor will I ever purchase any product that interrupts a show Im watching with their stupid advertising. I do stream Netflix and Hulu along with Amazon as I have a Prime membership. The comments posted here, if they were put in written letter form (NOT emails), properly addressed to the FCC would certainly approach the desired effect of annoying the person responsible for reading and respondong to each of them. As advertisements increase the Cable Companys are making a bundle so there comes a time when the Cable Companys should no longer charge the consumer. I am always on the lookout for a clever or funny commercial. I agree, I will never want to buy some product that I been forced to hear about every night over and over. Im pretty sure they have added at least 1.5 mins of commercials this year per hour. Even the newscasters find ways to interject company names or products into their conversation- and during the actual news. BENNINGTON A Massachusetts man convicted last July of sexually assaulting a minor after climbing into her window with a deadly weapon was handed a five-years-to-life prison sentence in a Bennington courthouse Tuesday. She at Shaw told me it was mailed June 01,2021, I never opened it because I got a notice on my computer over due, That is a insult to me .Thank You in Advance ,But we both know the outcome. Love the analysis. Notice now how CNN has added Anthony Bourdain? I am almost off my blood pressure meds. Eight minutes of movie to nine minutes of ads I timed it! We will only have just so many days, so many hours and only so many minutes. PBS. Denzel Lafayette, of North Adams, Mass., was 22 when he drove to Bennington to . There are only two countries that allow pharmaceutical ads on TV. AND SO DO THEY , fucx corporate CHINA now the usa suks ass big time, CORPORATE FUCKIN DAILY FUCK THESE GREED MONGERS kick their stupid ass to curb ,GOD will sort these FAGGOTS OUT and be judged,,,,,, COCKSUCKERS. The series, along with Jeopardy!, had to halt production due to the coronavirus. Plus, it chaps my hide that I have to pay for something and still have to endure 30-50% ads. So now LETS ALL SPREAD THE WORD AND SHOW OUR UNITED POWER BY BEGINNING THE BOYCOTT OF CABLE TV THIS COMING THURSDAY OF JULY 1ST TO HELP SHOW THOSE JUST HOW SERIOUS AND DISSATISFIED WE THE PAYING PUBLIC HAVE BECOME AND HOW FIRM WE STAND AND PLAN TO MAKE OURSELVES HEARD ON THIS NEXT UPCOMING INDEPENDENCE DAY!!! 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. good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. Now it is almost 50%. Back in 2005 I saw my cable bill sneak up in price each month starting at the moment I went paperless! I hate to say it but by keeping cable or even Hulu or Amazon or watching you tube, youre just moving to the next platform thats already planning on how they can increase ads and charge you more way before you see it happen. If you want to add other channels there are bundles or single channels available to be added to your package. It is not. 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!). Virtually all of the commercials were in good taste, the one. I rarely watch TV now because frankly, its far too damned annoying. Well some of them at least. The cable operators employ a large staff of highly paid lobbyists to twist the arms of these I get much better information from online news sources, apps like The Guardian, and from international streaming sources, all of which are free and are much lighter on the commercial load. It is sad to see the decline of newspapers, since I enjoy reading them, although now it is done mostly online. Im pretty much done with that. Totally agree, abc is out of control! ABC World News Tonight provides viewers the latest news and analysis of major events from around the . To think what the advertisers can create and pull-off in one minute has always impressed me. And we get more commercial ads then ever. First, I watch ABC World News each evening and noticed there seemed to be a disparity to the timing of the commercials compared to regular broadcast TV, but had never put the effort into to researching my theory. what cat we do to stop it! in a few more years the television industry with pass into history. 42 minutes ago. I encourage all viewers to tell these heinous broadcasters we will boycott their programs if they dont significantly REDUCE the number and percentage of ads on their shows. Or at least a large percentage of the equity. Better yet watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or any of the other pay services. That comes out to be 1 ad every minute of the show. I have just finished reading all of the comments above and not a single person is wrong! OK we all HATE commercials but what can we do about it? Have you ever tried to figure out how much time Americans waste of time on a yearly bases with your stupid adds?? One more thing I noticed was the posts tend to be written by older people, mostly women. Anyway, viewers are beginning to revolt by not watching! In the past month, I have actually enjoyed only 3 commercials out of hundreds. Considering the first commercial did not come on until about 17 and a half minutes into the 29 minute show, that meant that 72% of the last 11 and a half minutes of the news were commercials. As for TV, I enjoyed TCMs commercial-free screenings of classic films, but realized I was overpaying for the amount of time I watched the channel. So, why not just put a 23 inch screen in the upper left or right of the screen and play the commercials over and over again with all the noise, and stupidity that these commercials now depict. Its outrageous! Its been WAY out of control for far too long. .. .. .. Im tired of being brainwashed with all the stupidity of the ads being shown. The End Is Near for Free TV. I promise you that over 15 minutes of the half hour show was ad time. my money pay for ?My last Shaw Bill took 21 days to get to my Mail box. This is a very different Hillary Clinton to the managed political performer. Those 500 channels we supposedly get are duplicates and triplicates. The date and time was selected to impact news coverage . House party ending in gunfire leads to 3 teens shot, 1 injured: HCSO . My takeaway is that people who watch ABC World News Tonight may not be the healthiest people in the world, but they have do have access to doctors and drugs. It makes me think that they are banking off the ratings of the news as compared to the rest of their programming. I wondering how much of the show Im really seeing. Week after week same thing its so stupid and the same ones over and over on the same Show! If half of the time is news would be it. The opening comment is bull shit I have recently started a website, the info you provide on this site has helped me greatly. I cannot blame my wife as shes on Medicare. 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. Before writing a major complaint , check your facts. The rates go up, service goes down. On the TV guide will be 5 or more channels sheerly for products being sold. does the dog die in hondo; dhgate marc jacobs dupe; natural scents for candles. NetFlix/Hulu/Etc are it. The commercials are horribly produced for the most part. 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. Such a irritating every time whenever watching tv or one thing every news chennel has a tie up with each other they take comercial break same time such a pain. Netflix and streaming services are a good option. Im not real sure what you might do with these comments but pretty sure nothing will be done! On top of that they show the same 3-4 commercials over and over again ON EVERY BREAK. Its a classic pull strategy, and it seems like drug prices are always going up. Medicare Advantage, Sling TV are you ready now?, ~Ben It helps to see like-minded people as fed up with the frequency and excessive amount of stupid, inane ads as I. When they offer a discount, tell them you do want the discount and you want it to be retroactive and be applied to your service that you have already paid for up to this point. Can forget HGTV and a number of other stations. More time spent on ads than on the story itself. No unsightly antenna on the roof or tower to maintain. Yes I remember all this BS so clearly when they wanted to get cable introduced into our small town. The trend is 4-6 minutes of show and 5 minutes of commercial.and on and on. So I checked what was happening by turning the same show on through Comcast online through the computer, and could see the 10-30 seconds of the show that was missing as presented on the On Demand through the cable. When I lived in England, We hated to buy a license to watch the BBC. I was watching a 1951 episode of the Adventures of Superman..guess how long the actual run time was..28.50 minutes exactly. Why dont they take the billions of $$$ blown on frivolous advertising, lower their rates accordingly and maybe save their customers some real money ? Sorry, but no. When an ad came on my wife looked at me to fast forward through the commercial. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Rather this boycott will only be effective and send a clear message to all those responsible for the low and poor quality of Television today if we stand united. Anyway, all these ads are expensive. This is commercial insanity. Mind numbing, not to mention Butt numbing, broaden your horizons, get a hobby. Its horrible and disgusting. 9 commercials in a row on KMGH channel 9 on Wednesday, 10/13/21, Why? ALSO, since Im typing in this box and TRYING TO READ what Ive wrote I CANT SEE IT!!! Popular here during day time quiz shows. If people like ads that much let them get a channel that plays nothing but ads. So, sponsors became alternate week sponsors and now participating sponsor (an ad here an ad there). Happens to me all the time, I have not paid nor watched any cable or satellite in a decade and im only 29, i will not ever pay for it unless the commmercials are removed or Drastically altered, i just will not do it. An aging, and not healthy, tribeTheres an opportunity for entrepreneurs here somewhere. I just turn off the TV or change channels nothing is so good that you have to put up with that. 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?) There must be a better solution if they want to keep any viewers. Stay up to date on US and world news or catch up on the latest in politics, weather, health, business, and more from America's #1 news source. In this article, we'll help you decide which option is best for you. 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. Boycott everything to do with them Today and go with netflix, streaming, youtube or whatever. Agreed theres an app and drug for virtually everything. Really, is that too much to ask? What a joke $$$$ all that money spent and these idiots , that is all you can do? Uhh, they do. r uou with me on this ??? REMEMBER THIS IS THE UNITED MESSAGE THEY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR FROM US OR SEE ON ANY OF THESE COMPLAINT BLOGS. We the public get it. My beef with World News Tonight is that they tease you endlessly with what you are going to be seeing. I close my eyes during the estimated commercial times. then utter greed took over and they pretend it;s because of freedom of something or other!! 5 mins of news 10 mins of commercials, they obviously need to pay for those big salaries, BS, BS, BS, a bunch of sell outs!!! In one hour, 33-40% of the time is devoted to commercials. On ABC news, there is more time spent on commercials, than actual news. And yes, I dont like to think I am in the demographic that the advertisers are targeting during ABC news, but I guess I mist be. So once it was over I decided to watch it again, and write down how many commercials there were, how long each one aired, and what the commercial was for. Every time I see the POTUS, I expect it will the first time for there to be some trash corporate logo on the presidential lectern. Tell u folks Im a happy camper at 85!! I canceled cable last year and have Hulu Netflix and amazon. I had to shake my head as I read this. My hunch is that the 13-minute figure is way low! Same goes for all the shows. Am I pleased that I download my viewing.. 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. Can you imagine if we only have all these boring institutions left after lockdown. I recently got a flyer from a cable company offering some big deal special and when I looked at the channels offered there were only 3 that I would have even considered watching. In a site I was at before coming here, Comcast, NBC, and MSNBC are suing Dish Network for use of the auto skip ad function their newest DVRs. I also mute all commercials. My wife and I occasionally comment on just this topic. I also noted that it seems the commercials are likely targeting people who have access to doctors and drugs, which I assume tends to skew a bit older. During that time period, there were 13 commercials, totaling about 8 minutes and 15 seconds. When i watch it i skip the commercials . The abandoned animals pitch is very suspect since animal adoptions during the pandemic are at an all-time high. Complete waste of news time. Love the podcast when released on the same day however, usually this newscast is late and by a few days so it becomes somewhat irrelevant. I mean, if they can reject a Politicians commercial because they dont like their politics, they should be able to reject some Noisy commercial selling something no one wants. 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