I hardly ever watch commercials because I have DVR but I still get annoyed because I feel like every five minutes I have to fast foward. Honestly without DVR I wouldn't beable to sit through an entire show. So how much time is spent on commercials?
In the 1960s a typical hour-long American show would run for 51 minutes excluding advertisements. Today, a similar program would only be 42 minutes long; a typical 30-minute block of time now includes 22 minutes of programming with six minutes of national advertising and two minutes of local. Other countries are much stricter on the amount of commericials they can show. The amount of airtime allowed by the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom for advertising is an overall average of 7 minutes per hour. Any extra time from American made shows are filled by trailors.
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