All ads, all the time
I woke up at 6 AM on a Thursday. I turned on the TV to catch up on the news. EVERY f-ing news station had nothing but back-to-back commercials. Every single news station. I went to 8 different news stations - ALL of them were running ads!!! Nothing but ads. No news, ads! All ads, all the time.
I turned off the tv and went online - to get the news.
Nighttime TV is full of commercials. There are 15 minutes of commercials per hour. 1 out of every 4 minutes. Daytime TV is worse. When we turn on the TV to watch the news, why should we have to suffer through endless minutes of ads before we get the actual news???
I do not want to be forced to watch tons of TV ads instead of my chosen tv program. This includes the news. In the good old days, TV network executives used to say, "TV is free. That's why you have to sit through TV commercials". Today, TV is not free, we PAY for our TV reception, via cable companies, so why the F do we still have to sit through tons of annoying TV commercials??? And the TV networks wonder why TV viewership keeps going down? Lousy TV programs and tons of TV ads are driving viewers away. And younger people are getting their news, not from the TV news channels, but online, from sources like Facebook and other social media outlets. And, for entertainment, EVERYONE is subscribing to Netflix ... because there are no commercials. I am a Netflix subscriber and enjoy watching TV shows and movies with NO commercials!
I wrote this in 2017