There are FAR to too many adverts!
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How many are enough? Christ...
Took day of work to spend time with five year old. Had brekky and I have something booked for 10am so we will be out most of the day.
I'm between ask him what he wants to watch before we head out . "Tom and Jerry please Dad"
Stick on Boomerang on SkyQ. Adverts after advert. Probably 10 crammed into 15-20 minutes. And why are there starving children being advertised on children's channels?
Surely these adverts should be on adult/mainstream television? If you have billions being spent to renovate a church in France, I am sure if we all had a whip round as adults we could save world poverty? Anyway I digress.
Ban all adverts on kids channels.
Took day of work to spend time with five year old. Had brekky and I have something booked for 10am so we will be out most of the day.
I'm between ask him what he wants to watch before we head out . "Tom and Jerry please Dad"
Stick on Boomerang on SkyQ. Adverts after advert. Probably 10 crammed into 15-20 minutes. And why are there starving children being advertised on children's channels?
Surely these adverts should be on adult/mainstream television? If you have billions being spent to renovate a church in France, I am sure if we all had a whip round as adults we could save world poverty? Anyway I digress.
Ban all adverts on kids channels.
Don't be silly! How would children know what to pester their parents & grandparents for if there were no adverts to tell them about the latest must-have?
If as an advertiser, you can trigger the pester factor, then kids TV is probably the most lucrative medium.
Or you can just let them watch CBeebies or CBBC instead
If as an advertiser, you can trigger the pester factor, then kids TV is probably the most lucrative medium.
Or you can just let them watch CBeebies or CBBC instead
te.it's the overkill of begging adverts on Talking Pictures that rankle, we all feel sorry for wretched working donkeys and
African kids drinking filthy water but it's unfair to blackmail us with sentiment ,
you know it's not my fault that in 2019 some countries still use beasts of burden and have lamentable health and child care
infrastructures.
African kids drinking filthy water but it's unfair to blackmail us with sentiment ,
you know it's not my fault that in 2019 some countries still use beasts of burden and have lamentable health and child care
infrastructures.
Until Sky and the like do proper selective packages and have no adverts they will never get my custom.
I want 3 channels maybe 5, not or 100 or 150.
I want the opera channel, I want a natural history channel, I want a history channel.
OK Sky how much is that? Answer.. "Sorry sir you have to a minimum 50 channels at £50 a month bla bla bla. "
It should be like a takewaway menu, a big simple list and you just pick the ones you want at a fiver each..
Yes you can have a banquet if you want and get 200 channels for the price of 150 fair enough.
But I don't want 20 channels or even 15.....
I want 3 channels maybe 5, not or 100 or 150.
I want the opera channel, I want a natural history channel, I want a history channel.
OK Sky how much is that? Answer.. "Sorry sir you have to a minimum 50 channels at £50 a month bla bla bla. "
It should be like a takewaway menu, a big simple list and you just pick the ones you want at a fiver each..
Yes you can have a banquet if you want and get 200 channels for the price of 150 fair enough.
But I don't want 20 channels or even 15.....
peterperkins said:
Until Sky and the like do proper selective packages and have no adverts they will never get my custom.
I want 3 channels maybe 5, not or 100 or 150.
I want the opera channel, I want a natural history channel, I want a history channel.
OK Sky how much is that? Answer.. "Sorry sir you have to a minimum 50 channels at £50 a month bla bla bla. "
It should be like a takewaway menu, a big simple list and you just pick the ones you want at a fiver each..
Yes you can have a banquet if you want and get 200 channels for the price of 150 fair enough.
But I don't want 20 channels or even 15.....
What I don't get about Sky is you pay high fees and still get adverts. Sooner they disappear the better.I want 3 channels maybe 5, not or 100 or 150.
I want the opera channel, I want a natural history channel, I want a history channel.
OK Sky how much is that? Answer.. "Sorry sir you have to a minimum 50 channels at £50 a month bla bla bla. "
It should be like a takewaway menu, a big simple list and you just pick the ones you want at a fiver each..
Yes you can have a banquet if you want and get 200 channels for the price of 150 fair enough.
But I don't want 20 channels or even 15.....
Shakermaker said:
onlynik said:
What I don't get about Sky is you pay high fees and still get adverts. Sooner they disappear the better.
I am sure that they would argue they could only go ad free by charging you considerably moreDaveTheRave87 said:
Chris Stott said:
Try American TV. Makes ours look advert free.
"We interrupt this commercial break to show you some of the programme you're meant to be watching."
Pretty much never watch adverts on Sky... everything is pre recorded other than sport and films, and no adverts on the films... spend the ad breaks on sport flicking to other channels.
The number of adverts on all TV channels is restricted by OFCOM regulations. if you think a channel is playing too many you can complain directly to them. The regulations are here: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/br...
if any channel shows too many OFCOM take a very dim view and often do fine channels.
if any channel shows too many OFCOM take a very dim view and often do fine channels.
I DETEST commercials and I haven't watched a commercial in seriously I think 3 years. I absolutely REFUSE. Everything I watch I recorded it earlier and view it 30 minutes in and skip over the commercials or just watch it whenever after the fact.
Either way, haven't watched a commercial in years, have absolutely NO desire to do so BUT as a result I have no idea what new stuff is out there on the market. LoL not that I care, and as it turns out the one or two times I didn't fast forward through one block of adverts seemed to me there was nothing new at all... Same 'ole , same 'ole.
Either way, haven't watched a commercial in years, have absolutely NO desire to do so BUT as a result I have no idea what new stuff is out there on the market. LoL not that I care, and as it turns out the one or two times I didn't fast forward through one block of adverts seemed to me there was nothing new at all... Same 'ole , same 'ole.
ESOG said:
I DETEST commercials and I haven't watched a commercial in seriously I think 3 years. I absolutely REFUSE. Everything I watch I recorded it earlier and view it 30 minutes in and skip over the commercials or just watch it whenever after the fact.
Either way, haven't watched a commercial in years, have absolutely NO desire to do so BUT as a result I have no idea what new stuff is out there on the market. LoL not that I care, and as it turns out the one or two times I didn't fast forward through one block of adverts seemed to me there was nothing new at all... Same 'ole , same 'ole.
And yet you've just started a thread where you tell us about the Fox commercials for the new series of American Dad. Commercials that you don't watch, or do watch? Either way, haven't watched a commercial in years, have absolutely NO desire to do so BUT as a result I have no idea what new stuff is out there on the market. LoL not that I care, and as it turns out the one or two times I didn't fast forward through one block of adverts seemed to me there was nothing new at all... Same 'ole , same 'ole.
However, I don't quite take it as far as you.. though generally these days I fast forward the ads where I can, there are still times when I am watchign TV as broadcast and the ads come on, but that's just time in which I do other things, check Facebook, play a round of Golf Clash, make a drink etc. Not quite so committed to the cause of avoiding them as you are!
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