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I do keep saying this but there is far too much advertising on TV. I used to complain about having to pay the TV licence fee in the UK but now I'd cheerfully pay it just so I could watch advert free TV. With the BBC having no adverts I guess I watched at least 80% of my TV viewing with them thus no more than 20% of the commercial TV. I don't know what the situation is like now in the UK but I seem to remember that commercial TV in the UK didn't show the sheer volume of adverts that you get in North America.
I think the Governments should restrict advertising to no more than 4 minutes in each half hour. I was watching a National Georgraphic program the other day and I timed the adverts and I couldn't believe that they actually served up 6 minutes of advertising before they returned to the program.
Then I'm watching the British Open and again a huge number of adverts.
I've said for a while now that advertising is dumbing us down as folk are just not watching TV as much as they once did. Of course the media/marketing folk say they don't dumb us down but if you watch a National Geographic program you'll note that after their 6 minutes of advertising that they then proceed to show 1 or 2 minutes of what happened in the last segment. So that tells me they know we're being dumbed down as they have to remind us what we watched in the previous segment before they continue with the new one.
That's really why I subscribed to Netflix as you get advert free TV with them. Mind you if I could get the news on Netflix I figure my actual TV viewing would go down to no more than an hour a day on average.
Alastair
I think the Governments should restrict advertising to no more than 4 minutes in each half hour. I was watching a National Georgraphic program the other day and I timed the adverts and I couldn't believe that they actually served up 6 minutes of advertising before they returned to the program.
Then I'm watching the British Open and again a huge number of adverts.
I've said for a while now that advertising is dumbing us down as folk are just not watching TV as much as they once did. Of course the media/marketing folk say they don't dumb us down but if you watch a National Geographic program you'll note that after their 6 minutes of advertising that they then proceed to show 1 or 2 minutes of what happened in the last segment. So that tells me they know we're being dumbed down as they have to remind us what we watched in the previous segment before they continue with the new one.
That's really why I subscribed to Netflix as you get advert free TV with them. Mind you if I could get the news on Netflix I figure my actual TV viewing would go down to no more than an hour a day on average.
Alastair
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