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rsmith6621

(6,942 posts) Thu Sep 4, 2014, 05:00 PM Sep 2014

How Many F#&^ing Commercials Do We Have To Bear [View all]

Just watching The Ed Show. They broke to a commercial at :38 minutes past the hour, came back for 15 seconds spot at :43 to just show the studio then back to advertising and then at :48 Ed mentions an upcoming story on Joan Rivers and then finally back at :53.

I just love paying $128 a month for corporate commercial ran in a almost non stop loop.

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How Many F#&^ing Commercials Do We Have To Bear [View all] rsmith6621 Sep 2014 OP

That's why ann--- Sep 2014 #1

As one of my mentors said to me Boom Sound 416 Sep 2014 #2

You don't have to bare it. Just turn it off. (nt) bigwillq Sep 2014 #3

You want to write a check for a few hundred thousand and maybe all the commercials will go away. CBGLuthier Sep 2014 #4

The ads are only affordable by large corporations, because of the ludicrous pay scales mainly.... Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #10

Cable is not the people's airwaves n/t SickOfTheOnePct Sep 2014 #12

Au contraire, mon Cherie. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #13

That's not the same thing SickOfTheOnePct Sep 2014 #17

The basis for state and local regulation of cable is not that the airwaves are public onenote Sep 2014 #18

Of course it is new law. That is the point, there needs to be new law. Call it radical if you will. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #20

There never will be a law allowing wages for all media employees (or the employees of certain) media onenote Sep 2014 #22

You're still letting rich people tell you how to think and what to feel? N/t Taitertots Sep 2014 #5

Don't bare it; they can't see you anyhow. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #6

giggle cwydro Sep 2014 #14

when cable started it was movies only no commercials..... spanone Sep 2014 #7

when cable started it was retransmissions of commercial broadcast television stations onenote Sep 2014 #21

The "commercial television model" has been superseded by cable... Cooley Hurd Sep 2014 #8

Matt Lauer makes 20 million a year, how can you pay that without licking the boots of the Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #9

The second half hour is the worst. flamingdem Sep 2014 #11

That's primarily why I don't watch professional football anymore. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #15

Watch via the internet. SheilaT Sep 2014 #16

What are these F#&^ing Commercials you speak of? hunter Sep 2014 #19

None Le Taz Hot Sep 2014 #23

originally free tv undergroundpanther Sep 2014 #24