Some trivia on cable TV

[dkzzzz]

I just read interesting facts about commercial break laws in EU television =)

In TV shows the time between commercial breaks must be > 20 minutes!

In movies showed in TV the commercial break must be > 30 minutes!

The total amount of commercial in movie must be < 12 minutes per hour! But because there can be only 2 breaks in hour they are usually shorter than 12 min/2 = 6 minutes.

For example, in 110 minutes movie only 3 breaks are allowed!

In U.S. there is 4-5 minutes commercial break after every 6 minutes of program, movie or show.

If anyone old enough to remember what Cable TV operators were saying when cable TV was a new thing. You would recall that they were pitching commercial-free TV, cause you dear consumer would pay for it, so : there would be no commercials...

Same BS they touting now about satellite radio.

I gave up watching TV in US long time ago. I have no idea how most people put up with commercials. Last time I saw a TV program it had more commercials than the actual programming. Not to mention that commercials in US are not interesting.
I am just too lazy to get a DVR, I'd rather not watch it at all.

 

[Ivan Kipling]

Listen, I'm old enough to remember when commercials were sometimes fun, to watch. Some were grand productions with soaring musical scores, breathtaking scenery, and even a story to tell. The old 'Marlboro' commercials, were stunning. Ann Miller did an extravagant dance number, for Great American Soups. We had the Cold Diggers, a good looking chorus line done up in gold lame. Many more.

I remember watching the ORIGINAL Dick Van Dyke Shows, and The Andy Griffith Shows. They did not include all that many commercials. I know this, because when restored to DVD, the shows include scenes, long forgotten. Vignettes that were excised, due to increased commercial airtime.