Are You Tired of Any TV Commercials?

People standing there and just staring into the camera one after the other annoy me in commercials.
 
I watch everything with a buffer. I don't watch commercials. I just Fast forward through them.
I must add that I don't watch that much TV to begin with.
 
What cracks me up....especially when watching the evening news on the networks....ABC/NBC/CBS...is when I flip channels during a commercial, and find the same commercial being broadcasted on both channels, at the same time. I've observed this on several occasions, and it makes me wonder just how "independent" these channels really are.
 
Don M. said:
What cracks me up....especially when watching the evening news on the networks....ABC/NBC/CBS...is when I flip channels during a commercial, and find the same commercial being broadcasted on both channels, at the same time. I've observed this on several occasions, and it makes me wonder just how "independent" these channels really are.
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That's what is known as a "block".
The media buyers do that on purpose.
In Radio you may find that switching stations during a commercial you will find the same ad at the same time.
Certain products appeal to certain demographics. So for instance, if a product markets well to the demographics of the evening news they will buy a "block" for the ad, buying 2 or more networks at the same time or the ad to run.
 
I tried to get the news story -live of the floods in Kentucky. They expect a high death toll. So far, I watched 8 commercials and I still haven't got to the actual news story. Yeah, the need ads to pay to keep the lights on, but you need content to justify the ads. The business model is now ads with the promise of content. They are producing content as a carrot, but the main goal is to provide a setting for ads. Plus, you are bombarded by someone shoving their ads in your face. I don't think I gave them the right to hound me, by watching TV or radio, the net, etc.
 
everyday there are more and new commercials that annoy me honestly ....... most having to do with untruths or partial truths and blatant (**** conditions apply) see details.............. that IF people look unravel everything said in commercials.

I remember when commercials were monitored and taken off or adjusted for misleading statements or false ones...Does not seem like that happens anymore just anything goes
 
bingo said:
so many...the round up one just played again for the umpteenth time....wish I had a buzzer to push for bad ads!
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Seems the worse something is for humans and the environment, the more it is advertised - glyphosate, milk, jabs, any medical commercial (millions of them)....
 
Don M. said:
for the people that have to use drugs.
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The commercials are all based on sales and profits, not needs nor health. If people really did need the drugs, no advertising at all is needed. Since no one needs the drugs advertised, they are advertised like everything else, to hook the gullible, to sell, sell and sell more.
 
Keesha said:
And I have to agree that this might even be more annoying than the actually commercials. Commercial volume. It’s late and your husbands gone to bed so you turn the tv down only to discover the commercials are 5 times as loud as the program so you literally have to dial the volume up & down all the way through it.
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I remember fifty years ago people pointing this out, and the stations admitting it then, they up the volume so people will hear it when they leave the room ...
More recently, less than ten, maybe twenty years,
the congress challenged the television stations on the same subject, to 'get them' to stop increasing the volume during commercials....
the response ? >>>
"we can't reduce the volume of commercials!!"
"It's not done on purpose" or "we don't do that" >
it's "hardwired" in the way the programs are produced and we "can't control it" !!??
 
Alligatorob said:
Yep, that is what they are. And the pay for much of the TV we watch. Ads pay for this forum, it's how media works.
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ouch..... this post is subject to possibly disappearing. Other forums did not tolerate it being known that they were for profit, for money, ... especially 'religious' forums....
 
The AAA Auto Club commercial with the bad English irritates me .... the guy saying something about being BROKEN down ....

bothers my ears ..:)


I have a broken arm .... the relationship is broken ... But the guy in his car is BROKE down. ...
 
The Charmin ads with the bears drives me out of the room...."Itchy, scratchy bottom", and their saying "enjoy the go"

It's just not right, I tells ya!
 

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