Went home to visit my boomer parents for Thanksgiving and they watch a lot of TV. I should say they watch a lot of commercials.
I don't have CATV/SATV or whatever the GenXers and Boomers are consuming these days. I stream everything through a browser with adblock so I never see a commerical.
My god! It's commercial after commercial after commericial for seemingly the majority of the program. Even football games are all commercials now. Do they pause the game for 5 minute commercial breaks? I used to play college football. I don't remember putting the game on hold for 5-10 minute commercial breaks.
Modern television in unwatchable. It's like 1 minutes of show and then 3-5 minutes of commericals. It didn't used to be like this. In a 30 minute block, there was 22-24 minutes of show, now it's like 10-15 minutes of show and the rest is commercials. Modern TV is unwatchable! I burst a blood vessle in my eyeball in anger.
The next day we all sat down for breakfast with the TV on, of course, and we all finished our meals before the commercial break ended. WTF, DUDE!!?
Anyways, I'm trying to get them to cut the cable.
I noticed last weekend I was with my dad and he watches a lot of older shows, as do I really. We were watching a free channel he doesn't usually watch with some old show from the 60s on it that comes in on an antenna. The show ended at something like 10 after the hour which seemed odd, so we looked and realized that each show is in a 40 minute slot. These are old shows of 20-something mins in length intended for a 30 min slot and they are showing them on this channel in 40-minute slots to fit in more advertising.
I can complain a bit less because it's free, but the streaming services want you to pay for this experience of random ad breaks of random length decided by an algorithm.