HOW THE HELL DO WE GET RID OF ALL THE ADVERTISEMENTS?????

[a kennedy]

watching the evening news with Lester Holt, who I really like, and I swear to gawd they have more advertisements then news stories. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. What are you watching it on? nt

[a kennedy]

4. Just regular ol' tv.......

[Pobeka]

2. I record the news. Automated. FF thru the commercials... nt

[a kennedy]

5. I know, I do that for a ton of other shows, but the damn news??? I'm just sick of them all.

[Sherman A1]

3. Try this

PBS Newshour or stream France 24, NHK, BBC or DW news if not available on your local PBS World Channel. Leave behind the corporate drama that is only there to fill airtime between ads for drugs we never knew we needed.

[a kennedy]

7. Love PBS......thanks, but even our local news has got a ton of ads. 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Sherman A1]

12. Probably the case

I don’t watch local news for just that reason.

[Ocelot II]

6. You don't. How you think the content is paid for?

[a kennedy]

8. I know, but damn, there are just to damn many. 🤬

[JohnSJ]

9. I know some are not equipped to do it, but I rarely watch anything live, and it is a breeze to not

only skip through commercials, but also RW jackasses spewing their garbage

[Submariner]

10. Lester Holt is a republican right winger currently disguising

himself as an Independent. He made the announcement of party change last year.

I can't figure out the Tim Scotts and Lester Holts of the world, who politically back the same people who hate their guts and want them dead. Maybe someone can explain that someday.

[a kennedy]

11. Shut up.......Lester is a repub??? seriously??? I never knew that......😢

[Ocelot II]

17. Which, of course, has nothing to do with the OP.

[Submariner]

20. The OP is a Liberal remarking he really likes his evening news from Lester Holt

I just thought that Liberal would like a heads up that his news is coming from a right wing NBC talking head, which could be relevant to the OP writer.

Most of us don't watch Fox to avoid the right wing bias. And for the same reason, we should recognize and not put up with similar right wing bias from the networks.

During Bush/Cheney regime Lester was Brokaw's yes man protégé. Some DU'ers may want to know this stuff about who they are listening to.

[Wahyee]

13. It makes watching tv unbearable

I frequently switch to streaming to avoid the noise

[Shermann]

14. TV is virtually unwatchable in real time

It's the same three commercials looped over and over. Sometimes they'll run the same commercial twice during one commercial break. I saw the same commercial 6 times or more during one half-hour show. I accept that ads are fundamentally required, but good grief. If you are making your content consumers switch off their televisions in anger, you are doing it wrong.

[a kennedy]

16. I know......and I swear, we're this close to cutting the damn cable cord.

[hunter]

15. Quitting television worked for me.

My wife and I mostly watch Netflix or DVDs.

On the internet I subscribe to sites I enjoy. On many sites subscribing makes the ads go away, just as it does on DU. uBlock Origin protects me from the rest.

I've become intolerant of advertising that moves, makes noise, or takes up more than a quarter of the screen. I don't block advertising on sites where advertising is unobtrusive.

Many of the sites I visit are technical so mostly I see ads for industrial components and scientific equipment.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

18. In my dreams

Ads would be limited
To 2 ads an hour.


Advertisers would send out 1 book all ads would be 1/4 of a page. We need something we call them.

All billboards by corporations selling shit will be banned.

We need to reclaim our mental space.

Advertising has saturated america and they need to be controlled. Some boundaries.

[a kennedy]

19. So back in the day, a 30 minute show had ads at the half an hour mark, for about 2 minutes......

30 minute shows now have ads at the 10 minute mark for about 3 minutes, the AGAIN at 15 minute mark for another 3 minutes, AND AGAIN AT THE 20 minute mark for ANOTHER 3 Minutes. Funny now tho, they have so many 10, and 15 second ads that it does seem like more BUT DAMN, a 30 minute time slot show is really about a 21 minute show.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

21. It's gotten out of hand.

There has to be limits.
Business has taken up too much space. Too much time and they like it like that.

There was a saying the tv content is the bullshit between commercials.

That additude needs to be shut down. Profit is not everything.

I hate capitalism.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. I've found that to be the case with any TV I watch

It's crossed my mind that it's just a series of commercials with a little entertainment/news thrown in to keep your attention between commercials...