Is it an age thing or what?

You watch something on television and the adverts go on for so long that you forget what you were watching, switch off and do something more interesting - even bgggger off to bed.

 

Years since I watched live TV. In the old days there was often just enough time to go and put the kettle on and make a cup of tea during the advert break.

 

@Tidemark you could make slow cooked whateveryoufancy now plus a side salad with fancy dressing now.

 

Ten minutes of the actual programme, whatever it is, then a 3-4 minute advert break, and repeat ad nauseam......it's how they make 40 minute programmes fit into a one hour time slot. Yep, we're being conned!

 

ITV 1 is not so bad but the other channels are really bad for long advert breaks.

Even the BBC spends 5 minutes telling us about their programmes at every opportunity.

 

Radio 4 has programmes in episodes and a good part of each one is a recap of the last.

 

Apparently watching football on channels where there are adverts, is excruciating as they are shown every three or four minutes before kick off.

 

I don't see adverts not having a tv. But instructive videos on Youtube and such like are a problem, especially when I need instruction for a computer issue. I can't remember what has been said or shown it's all to fast and repeating it doesn't help. Definitely an age thing, so does anyone know how too....

 

Adverts are one of the things that have put me off watching the tv, boring programs are another. Of the little time I spend watching the tv, things with advert breaks don't make up much of it. There are very few programs I find interesting enough to watch anyway.

After I installed an adblocker Youtube wanted me to 'whitelist' it, which I did, but I still don't see many ads there.

 

Couldn't cope without our Humax recording thingy - we can whizz through the ads and boring bits...

 

The self-promotion is utterly nauseating, isn't it? I particularly hate the snippets of journalists talking about how the BBC is the one truth, the light in the dark, etc, etc. Ha, ha, ha! Every report is dripping with bias, evasion and omission.

The only channels I can get are BBC 1, 2, and News 24, so I don't see ads for cars or hamburgers or whatever is being promoted these days.

 

Not Farming Today, The Archers, a wide variety of plays, science programmes, nor in Our Time and I could go on and on.

 

Watching football is pretty awful, not so much the football if it's an interesting match, it's all those that prattle on for an hour before, at half time and an hour afterwards, if they are so clever why are they not on the pitch, they always have all the answers.