spd2demun wrote:I HATE COMMERCIALS!!
Why can't the Networks figure out we're not in the last century?
Why do they think people PAY to get channels that have NO commercials!
Why do people leave the room to do something else when a commercial comes on?
Why do people record programs so they can FF through commercials?
Wake up!!
It's out of control...we were just taking about DVDs today and how they force commercials (movie previews) on you. YouTube has become annoying as it's full of popup ads. I propose a heavy tax on all ads, no matter where they appear! And no deductions for them as a business expense.
Yup, commercials are the appendix of broadcasting. A useless hunk of tissue hanging around doing nothing, until it decides to poison you. They're from a time when broadcasters had no revenue stream from the viewer so something had to pay for the programming. Considering probably 80-90% of viewers now pay for all they watch through services from cable providers or subscriptions to online content the only adds they should have is for other programs. Basically the broadcasters are now double dipping and getting paid on both ends As most commercials are added at the last/local point of braodcast it should be fairly easy to just not put them in. The only problem with that is it what do you do with 15 - 20 minutes each hour after the real show ends.
The ones that really torques my testes are the 5 minute long drug commercials or that ridiculous Dragon commercial because quite often they'll run one of those and then pile a standard block of commercials on top of that.
What kills me is they banned commercials for cigarettes and then turned around and allowed drug companies to advertise. I've read studies that directly correlates the rise of drug commercials with the rise of dependencies on pharmacueticals for everyday "survival" including the egregious doping of our children. I saw a show on the DOC channel the other night about our American Ritalin epidemic and the links between the pharmas and the education system and how most referrals for treatment are initiated by the education system so as to make the job of the teacher easier. When you cram 35-40 kids in a room, your going to have some docile kids and some excitable kids. Well you can't have to much creativity or nonconformist with a flat educational plan, so let's drug them into submission.
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BeeBee, think it was already decided in the famous Supreme Court Betamax case, timeshifting and bypassing commercials is legal. There was no limitation as to the commercials, so think this new complaint has no merit. 
Chris
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BeeBeeSA wrote:
As an exrtra, the stations already add their adds for upcoming shows, etc. to the screen while your watching a show. Usually in the bottom right quadrant. No way to get rid of those. Hope they don't start adds for prescription drugs or anything else!!
I've seen actual ads on those little quadrant areas on FS Detroit Tigers baseball. One has DMC docs and their speciality (they're waving in a video image of themselves too) and there have been others. Sometimes they pop an ad out from the scores box in the upper left too.
Pretty sure I've seen some on Nascar on Fox races too. Seems to be a commonality here in Fox.
Chris
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BeeBeeSA wrote:As an exrtra, the stations already add their adds for upcoming shows, etc. to the screen while your watching a show. Usually in the bottom right quadrant. No way to get rid of those. Hope they don't start adds for prescription drugs or anything else!!
Yah, those things really @#%$* me off, It's getting to the point where they cover the bottom third of the screen now.
Greedy buttheads already control what we watch, now they want control over how we watch it.
I don't think the networks have a leg to stand on. The advertising industry would be the ones to bring this suit.
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“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them." :Bertrand Russell
I'm for anything that gets rid of commercials! Wish them luck to pave the way for other providers.
Thanks for the research, SJ. 
