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Bit of an exaggeration. The average show is roughly 22-24 minutes per half hour with the rest going to advertisments.
by dagmx 9y ago
Bit of an exaggeration. The average show is roughly 22-24 minutes per half hour with the rest going to advertisments.
- pjmlp 9y agoTry to watch Portuguese TV on prime time, specially when soap operas or loved series are reaching their last episodes.
- HelloNurse 9y agoQuantity can be excessive, but a TV commercial break still guarantees N minutes of harmless unimportant content you can ignore. It only wastes time, and not always. Instead, a computer ad costs you money for bandwidth, can be intrinsically annoying (e.g. playing sounds or manipulating the browser), and poses a direct risk of serious harm (malware, subscriptions, snooping/tracking, etc.).
- alsocasey 9y agoI think the most egregious example is latter seasons of The Big Bang Theory clocking in at 16 minutes. That's ~50% ads.