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Olympics viewers overloaded with commercials during NBC Olympic Opening Ceremony

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Entirely typical... (Score: 4, Insightful)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2016-08-06 05:57 (#1PNCE)

"Opinionated fools on Twitter complain about something" isn't much of a news story. The extremely partisan blog with a lot of bile-spewing political comments is rather a cesspool, too.

Let's see the real story:
the first 40 minutes of the Opening Ceremonies included 14 minutes of commercials
Even those cherry-picked number are only a hair worse than every other ad-supported TV program in the US (~18 minutes of commercials per hour is typical), and sporting events are usually worse, getting extra commercial breaks wherever the opportunity presents itself. It wouldn't likely be any different on CBS, ABC, Fox, etc.

Re: Entirely typical... (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-08-06 23:33 (#1PQCJ)

I was thinking ttat didn't seem like that much.

Years ago, when the Battlestar Galactica pilot screened on New Zealand TV, we were getting two or three minute ad breaks every few minutes. At one point, we had a single scene - consisting of two or three camera shots - bracketed by three minute ad breaks. The ship was hit by nukes? AD BREAK!

That was the point I gave up watching live TV.

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2016-08-07 20:15 Interesting +1 ticho@pipedot.org

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