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Article #621852Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:55
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:55
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On 2018-04-17, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> The television aspect of cable TV certainly has dramatically >> increased, yet, they have also dramatically increased the >> number of commercials in a show. For instance, I timed it >> and years ago it was roughly 25% commercials while now it >> is 40%. > > I usually see 25-30%. When I watch a show I've DVRed it seems like > an hours show takes about 40-45 minutes when I skip the commercials. The Canadian comedy show "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" (which pokes fun at current events) got its name from the fact that a typical half-hour TV show contains 22 minutes' worth of actual content, the rest being taken up by ads. (Its name is a play on CBC's weekly current-events commentary called "This Hour Has Seven Days". That show ran for two years; "22 Minutes" has been going for nearly 25 years now. I guess comedy is an easier sell.) -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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