02-September-2010

Adverts on television and radio

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I don’t have a TV and there is a very good reason for that. Apart from the mindless dribble that one has to endure and the prohibitive cost of the television license, there appears to be an endless stream of adverts to contend with these days! I understand that television programming has to be paid for somehow, but must we endure nearly half a dozen advert sequences in every TV show.

Car radio, too many adverts on the radio

I happened to spend some time watching television over the Christmas holidays. One show that we watched was called CSI (crime scene investigation) or something along those lines. Anyway, the programme was only about three quarters of an hour in length and just as I was getting into it, there would be YET ANOTHER commercial break.

It’s extremely irritating, especially as it’s the same adverts again and again! Why do we have to have a commercial break every ten minutes? Surely just once or twice would have been enough. TV commercials are okay in small doses, but it’s really something else when the adverts are almost as long as the show itself!

Adverts on the radio really grate on my nerves as well. I often listen to the local stations for traffic reports and a bit of music on the way to work in the morning. Unfortunately, you have to put up with these stupid jingles and adverts that seem to be even more frequent than TV ads! around.

Also, there seems to be a lot less variety with the radio adverts; it’s the same one again and again. I have heard this particular Freelander Disovery advert so many times that I can almost recite it word for word! Add to this the complete tripe that some of the morning DJ’s spout out, it’s really no wonder than a lot of people switch off and play a CD instead.

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the quantity of adverts now is totally ridiculous ! I remember when we used to be able to watch a film without any interruptions lol and there were'nt as many channels then either !

gayboy 15-Aug-2010 02:00

we should write to ofgem - they are supposed to only run commercials after 20 mins of the programme. some channels show commercials every 8 mins!

rasputin 11-Aug-2010 06:54

Sky tv drives me nuts due to the adds I swear I know lots of them word for word which must be some kinda brainwashing , thank god for sky plus which means you can now flick through an hour long program which after fast forwarding the adds you can now watch in 30min

Phil 07-Aug-2010 22:45

I absolutely agree. We pay too much for TV and we are flooded with many, many commercials. what do we do about it, what can we do ??? I began pulling movies from my computer a year or so ago and at that time I was only getting one maybe two 10 second commercials per movie. I am now getting at least three or four commercials per movie in a row and none of them are ten seconds or less. We need to retaliate. But how do we do that?

atei2030 06-Aug-2010 02:09

did u see the advert for cat food? my cat invites his friend alfie round for dinner - they will be back tomorrow for their simply ! f-ing ridiculous!

rasputin 20-Jul-2010 17:58

if we dont watch these channels they might take notice and reduce the amount of commercials

rasputin 20-Jul-2010 17:45

there used to be a regulation that meant only 4 commercial breaks per hour of programme. on one cable channel I viewed the other night there was a break every 5 mins!

rasputin 20-Jul-2010 17:42

I totally agree,if we all watch bbc maybe they would take notice. I want to set up a protest against over commercialised tv.

rasputin 20-Jul-2010 17:37

My entire family decided years ago that when the sound on adverts is muted it makes them fifty per cent less painful! So easy to do and so effective!

ROS 20-Jun-2010 14:23

I have stopped watching the virgin tv channel "live" because of the amount of trailers and adverts on it. Sometime it seems that there are more adverts and trailers than program content. If I see one more trailer for "chuck" I will chuck a brick at the tv! The answer to this problem is to use a pvr harddrive recorder and fast forward through all the rubbish. No more ads or trailers!!!
I now record all tv with ads this way and watch later.

Theborgbabe 12-Jun-2010 07:38

When I was younger, T.V. was free & the reason being that we had to watch the commercials because that's what paid for our 'free" t.v.. Today you pay outrageous prices for television viewing but get twice as many commercials as when you were receiving "free" t.v.. Why is that?!!

Tammy McCray 04-Apr-2010 14:02

it is about time a button was installed on tv remotes that lets u decice weather 2 watch adverts or not. the amount of ads we have 2 bear is becoming increasingly inntolerable.

pl. 28-Mar-2010 21:34

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