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I stopped over at my parents' house a few weeks back for a get-together and the TV was on. I nearly felt physically ill at the amount of ads- at one point I saw an overlay ad on top of an actual "commercial" ad. The program that was on was definitely less run time than the adverts that ran in-between short sections of the program.
Did you know that most people won't notice a ~2% increase in the play speed of shows, and that by doing so you can squeeze in an extra 30 seconds of ad time into a 30 minute block?
Because TV companies know this. Many of them do exactly that.
Some of them push it all the way to 5-10% and it kills the pacing of the dialogue and writing. But hey more ads more money I guess
Me on my way to speedrun my telenovela
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I'd heard that somewhere. shiver Normies who watch TV scare me.
I've heard that actual football action is about 11 minutes. And yet football broadcasts lasts hours.
FOOSBALL IS THE DEVIL
and really, REALLY boring
Acceptable sport confused with trash sport, I apologize