Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"

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From: JimP
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:01

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On 17 Apr 2018 22:55:47 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
wrote:

>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.)

I was watching a 4 hour docmentary a month or so ago. 160 minutes out
of 240 minutes was show, the rest adverts. Ludicrous.

There is a cartoon series I watch. I get 15 minutes of cartoon, and 15
minutes of ads.

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From: JimP <solo...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
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