The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 06, 2017

Amen!!

You could always get an Antennae for Free Over the Air Channels to watch your commercials. Why pay a Cable/Satellite company $$$$ when you can get all the same commercials for Free!!

Um, read a book?

Listen to the radio.

Netflix!

For several years we had a cable company and a Satellite dish company. Never did both go out at the same time.

My suggestion to them is either go out to a bar and watch tv, or buy a toy and go to bed.

I use a DVR (Tivo-like) to fast forward though commercials. That is part of my cable package, it also means I can record shows when I am out doing something else and, therefore, I am not tied to the station’s schedule (except for CBS which stupidly assigns 3 hours to a football game (3 and a half lately)

And no 24 hour news channels!

Cut the cord and get a Roku or Amazon stick or Apple tv and you can watch shows and movies without commercials and without paying an arm and a leg for the privilege. My family went to Roku a couple of years ago and we don’t miss cable at all. Even my 9 year old doesn’t care!

I remember when they shoved cable down our throats. It was sold to us as commercial free because we paid for it monthly LOL. I cut the cord long ago.

Some networks have begun putting movies in a lot bigger time slot to force you to watch a lot more commercials. Classic programs are also getting this treatment. Running a classic 30 minute program in a 35 or 40 minute time slot.

Commercial time is coming in at about 33% now.

One Friday evening about 1965 I sat down with a stopwatch to time all the commercials in the 3 1/2 hours of prime time on a Friday evening. The total was a bit over 22 minutes. We had about 12 channels. Now, with over 300 to pick from, there are about 12 that I regularly choose from, and a bunch that I don’t want that have to pay for anyway. And when I get used to watching a certain channel, they will drop it or move it to a more costly package. And when I look through the grid to pick something, I might choose a program and see a minute of it and it goes to 5 minutes of commercials. So I keep looking, and each thing I pick is on commercials, and I go back to the first one, watch a minute, and then more commercials. Sometimes the commercial breaks are so long I forget what I was watching. Sometimes I can get up when a commercial starts, let the dogs in, go to the bathroom myself, get a beer and a snack and check email, and when I get back, there is still a minute of commercials left. If it weren’t for my wife, I’d drop the dish and start buying DVD collections of classic programs and movies. I got her a collection of a series she’d really liked which I’d never seen, and she fell asleep the two times we tried to watch the first episode. So I still haven’t seen it.

Better content as well.