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My husband was telling me that they're shortening some of the TV shows by making them faster. They do this to fit in more commercials in that half hour. Shows mainly affected are rerun sitcoms like Seinfeld, etc. We noticed while eating supper a couple of days when Seinfeld was on, that they seemed to be talking faster than they did in the past. Also, there was an Arby's Roast Beef ad that actually popped up in the corner of the screen. I hate those pop up ads online, I certainly don't want to see them on the television. :mad:

Anyone here ever see that?
 

Oh yea, SB, all the time. We record our soap daily and by eliminating the commercials, it only takes about 40 minutes to see an hour show. Some channels, USA for one, will show a few minutes of a movie and go right back to commercial. I do not watch USA for this reason.
 
On average, the typical 30 minutes show on TV has at least 10 minutes of commercials. About the Only shows that aren't 1/3 advertising are the subscribed movie channels. Some of the cable/satellite companies are offering receivers which can be programmed to block out the commercials, but the advertisers are trying to block their use. I'm not sure how that would work...perhaps they would have "dead spots" during the show, or record the show for later viewing, sans commercials. At any rate, watching most TV shows is like having a hoard of salesmen in the room with you.

Some of these channels have taken advertising to the extreme...TCM, for example, will take a two hour movie, and stretch it out to over 3 1/2 hours...almost 50% commercial time. It's no wonder that more and more people are spending money on things like Netflix.
 

mporta said:
TCM? Are you perhaps confusing it with AMC and THEY advertise. I don't remember any commercials on TCM.
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Yeah, you are right....it's AMC. I just looked, and they are broadcasting a re-run of Braveheart, from 3PM to 7PM. That's a great movie, but watching a 2 hour movie broken up by 2 hours of endless commercials is hardly worth it.
 
We have noticed that the most popular TV shows have the most commercials!! crybaby.gif
 

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