Remember when TV was for watching?

Bethmt said:
Those medication commercials are worst, with the long list of all possible, potential deadly side-effects...ugh. I too wondered about the many pharmaceutical commercials, and learned the purpose is that drug companies want consumers to ask their doctors for these drugs. Makes me wonder how many people do this. I honestly can't ever remember asking my doctor for a specific medication.
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They must, because the drug companies are spending huge money on commercials.
 
My other peeve about TV these days is you get like every episode of a show shown in one day. It's bad enough that I have nothing to watch but these old moldy reruns, but I can't even wait for the next "show" to come on. The entire day is one single program. Who care that much about "One Day At A Time", or "Storage Wars"?
 

We’re used to our favourite tv shows returning in late September. That won’t be happening this year. Maybe this strike will change everything. May be for good or bad.
 
Can't understand why anyone ever watches commercial TV when there are so many better things to do with your life. I'm glad I cut my cable 23 years ago. Sometimes I buy old TV shows from Amazon but would never watch commercial crazy TV. It makes me feel STUPID!
 
Bethmt said:
Those medication commercials are worst, with the long list of all possible, potential deadly side-effects...ugh. I too wondered about the many pharmaceutical commercials, and learned the purpose is that drug companies want consumers to ask their doctors for these drugs. Makes me wonder how many people do this. I honestly can't ever remember asking my doctor for a specific medication.
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Sorry, I didn't see your post and repeated everything you wrote!
 
Remember when you would watch a TV show and get 15 or 20 minutes of programing then a 2 minute commercial? Now you watch 7 minutes of programming and get 10 minutes of commercials. And the News is the worst - you watch one story and get 5 minutes of commercials.

In the 1950's, a show like The Twilight Zone, was in a half hour time spot. A 30 minute show that was around 25 or 26 minutes, The rest was commercials. The Outer Limits and Star Trek, were 60 minute shows that ran between 50-52 minutes. The rest was commercials.

Then these shows went into syndication, and after awhile they were edited, so local stations could have the same amount of commercials as more modern shows had. Half hour shows were now about 22 minutes, and hour long shows were about 48 minutes.

Later, I discovered while taping more modern shows, that hour long shows were now 45 minutes.

So I stopped watching some of these old shows on TV. As a Star Trek fan, I could always tell when a scene was cut out for more commercials. Since I owned the show on tape and then later DVD, I stopped watching it on TV.

There was a time where there was just one commercial, or 2 short ones, during the commercial breaks. Now there is like 5,6, or 7 in a row. I started cursing during commercials. "What? Another commercial? What's that? 12 in a row?"
 
MikeyDude said:
Remember when you would watch a TV show and get 15 or 20 minutes of programing then a 2 minute commercial? Now you watch 7 minutes of programming and get 10 minutes of commercials. And the News is the worst - you watch one story and get 5 minutes of commercials.

And remember how cool it was before it became legal to advertise doctors, lawyers and medications on TV? What good does it do to advertise medications? It's not like you can write your own prescription.

Everything is so profit oriented now a days. And I mean everything... I don't like it.
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I am SO sick of it. I used to laugh at old people who used the mute button. Now I do it all the time to spare myself the crap being piped into my brain. One after another, we are assailed by commercials. Trying to find information on Google, first do battle with all the rubbish adverts.
 
I'm to the "mute" point almost all the time now....specifically due to nonstop stuff about football....the newscasters on local
news just can't seem to get enough of the "chiefs"...I'm sick of
it....rarely watch local news now...I get the real news off the 'net....
 
Paladin1950 said:
Remember when you would watch a TV show and get 15 or 20 minutes of programing then a 2 minute commercial? Now you watch 7 minutes of programming and get 10 minutes of commercials. And the News is the worst - you watch one story and get 5 minutes of commercials.

In the 1950's, a show like The Twilight Zone, was in a half hour time spot. A 30 minute show that was around 25 or 26 minutes, The rest was commercials. The Outer Limits and Star Trek, were 60 minute shows that ran between 50-52 minutes. The rest was commercials.

Then these shows went into syndication, and after awhile they were edited, so local stations could have the same amount of commercials as more modern shows had. Half hour shows were now about 22 minutes, and hour long shows were about 48 minutes.

Later, I discovered while taping more modern shows, that hour long shows were now 45 minutes.

So I stopped watching some of these old shows on TV. As a Star Trek fan, I could always tell when a scene was cut out for more commercials. Since I owned the show on tape and then later DVD, I stopped watching it on TV.

There was a time where there was just one commercial, or 2 short ones, during the commercial breaks. Now there is like 5,6, or 7 in a row. I started cursing during commercials. "What? Another commercial? What's that? 12 in a row?"
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I've seen a commercial and the next commercial is the same one. Rerun commercials? I've also seen as many as 12 commercials in a row. It's during those times I fall asleep and miss the rest of the program I was watching!
 
I only have YouTube TV for the little time that I spend watching TV. I don’t care about the news, politics or any crap that many people watch and then argue about.
 
I spend most of my time here. I always have my earphones on so my hubby can watch his favorite shows. He loves MSNBC. I rather he watches it in the living room so I can keep an eye on him.
 
I rarely watch TV because of the commercials, unless I can record it and then FF past the commercials.

I'd rather read.
 
Paladin1950 said:
Remember when you would watch a TV show and get 15 or 20 minutes of programing then a 2 minute commercial? Now you watch 7 minutes of programming and get 10 minutes of commercials. And the News is the worst - you watch one story and get 5 minutes of commercials.

In the 1950's, a show like The Twilight Zone, was in a half hour time spot. A 30 minute show that was around 25 or 26 minutes, The rest was commercials. The Outer Limits and Star Trek, were 60 minute shows that ran between 50-52 minutes. The rest was commercials.

Then these shows went into syndication, and after awhile they were edited, so local stations could have the same amount of commercials as more modern shows had. Half hour shows were now about 22 minutes, and hour long shows were about 48 minutes.

Later, I discovered while taping more modern shows, that hour long shows were now 45 minutes.

So I stopped watching some of these old shows on TV. As a Star Trek fan, I could always tell when a scene was cut out for more commercials. Since I owned the show on tape and then later DVD, I stopped watching it on TV.

There was a time where there was just one commercial, or 2 short ones, during the commercial breaks. Now there is like 5,6, or 7 in a row. I started cursing during commercials. "What? Another commercial? What's that? 12 in a row?"
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Yes! The other thing they do is speed up the playback so the show runs faster. That one kills me.
 
Not only are there too many ads, they also can get pretty annoying when they repeat. And they are completely irrelevant to me most of the time. An hour of viewing can wear my driving finger out.
 
Even worse, a few antenna network channels are cutting minutes from the movie or episode for commercials.
The screen film states the movie has been "modified"--that means cut shorter.
I recall episodes of shows by heart so I can tell for sure.
 

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