How TV Shows Have Become TV Commercials

[Babalu]

It used to be that there were commercial breaks in TV shows. Now, TV shows are commercials. You can't watch any TV show without advertisements being flashed on the screen constantly to try and divert your attention. Not only that, but most cable channels have advertisements for other shows permanently affixed to the screen so you have to stare at them constantly. Sometimes there are even countdowns by the second! This has stopped me from watching much contemporary TV. In fact, the only way to tell if you are watching an actual commercial is that there's no other commercial on the screen! Even the news. Every segment is sponsored by something or someone. There's a local station here that has a resort in another state sponsor the weather. So do you know what happens? The weather girl gives the weather for that resort location before anything else and tells you to go there on vacation! This is why I live in TV past and not TV present. Also the shows stink now but that's besides the point.

[mets82]

This + A GAZILLION!!!

[Babalu]

Originally Posted by Alan Brady's Hair

Please explain how this is different from Jethro coming to breakfast and finding a whole box of Kellogg ' s Corn Flakes. Or a giant pack of Lucky Strikes (with great legs) dancing around in the middle of The Jack Benny Program?

If you can't understand the difference then there isn't much point trying to explain it to you.

I watched The Beverly Hillbillies for years and never noticed or cared what Jethro ate for breakfast. And if I did, so be it. It didn't kill the show. The only comparable situation to today would be if Jethro's head was in the corner of the screen the entire program yelling "Eat Kellogg's Cornflakes!"

We understand TV has commercials. But a big part of the reason TV is losing their audience is that they have made commercials so intrusive that people are tuning out.

[Regulus]

Originally Posted by Babalu

If you can't understand the difference then there isn't much point trying to explain it to you.

I watched The Beverly Hillbillies for years and never noticed or cared what Jethro ate for breakfast. And if I did, so be it. It didn't kill the show. The only comparable situation to today would be if Jethro's head was in the corner of the screen the entire program yelling "Eat Kellogg's Cornflakes!"

We understand TV has commercials. But a big part of the reason TV is losing their audience is that they have made commercials so intrusive that people are tuning out.

SECONDED

This Saturday will mark the ninth anniversary of me discontinuing my subscription to pay TV. I have no regrets for what I did, and whenever I hear of what commercial TV has degraded to only reinforces my decision to cut the cord.

[LUNCH]

I agree,advertising has totally taken over American TV.What I don't understand is why so few people seem to complain about it.

[Babalu]

Originally Posted by LUNCH

I agree,advertising has totally taken over American TV. What I don't understand is why so few people seem to complain about it.

That's also what I can't figure out. I would have expected there to be such an outcry that people's favorite TV shows were flash bannered to death that the ubiquitous Chuck Schumer would hold a press conference promising to pass a law against the TV networks to stop it.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Babalu

It used to be that there were commercial breaks in TV shows. Now, TV shows are commercials. You can't watch any TV show without advertisements being flashed on the screen constantly to try and divert your attention.

YES IS INSANE AND RIDICULOUS..... And they wonder why they are losing so many viewers!!!

NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THAT TRASH!!!!!!!!