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19/01/2025 10:51 pm
**1965**
QUESTION: Why do we have 2 commercials in the middle of every show?
ANSWER: The commercials sponsored and paid for the shows.
**2025**
QUESTION: Why do we pay for Cable or Dish TV and have 15 commercials every 10 minutes during a show?
ANSWER: Because we're stupid!
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
20/01/2025 1:58 am
So true George, I’ve thought the exact same thing.
20/01/2025 2:59 am
Why do we pay for Cable or Dish TV
George, despite being very funny, your post is conflating two different issues.
It's not that all of us pay to watch TV, but rather we all pay to receive TV. Transmitting signals over-the-air is an antiquated format application, nothing of real value can actually be broadcast in that way anymore.
Oh sure, with "rabbit ears" one can still receive content, albeit "primitive" compared to what's available through a provider - and it's that PROVIDER who allows you to receive TV. Programs, however, still need to be paid for, hence adverting revenue.
I hate commercials too. 99% of the time I fast forward through them or "mute" them.
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Topic starter
20/01/2025 12:54 pm
Why do we pay for Cable or Dish TV
George, despite being very funny, your post is conflating two different issues.
It's not that all of us pay to watch TV, but rather we all pay to receive TV. Transmitting signals over-the-air is an antiquated format application, nothing of real value can actually be broadcast in that way anymore.
Oh sure, with "rabbit ears" one can still receive content, albeit "primitive" compared to what's available through a provider - and it's that PROVIDER who allows you to receive TV. Programs, however, still need to be paid for, hence adverting revenue.
I hate commercials too. 99% of the time I fast forward through them or "mute" them.
All of your points are taken. But we still pay for TV today, when back in the day we didn't. Those 2 commercials in the middle of a half-hour program back in 1965 allowed the show we were watching to be aired. Where as today, the TV stations are still getting advertisers to pay for their programing, while the cable companies that air the shows for us are charging us as much as $200 (and higher) to see the shows. And even if we choose not have cable or dish, we're still going to have to endure those 14, 15, or more commercials that are run during a show we want to watch. I personally am to the point where I can't even sit down for any show anymore. The commercials are too taxing to make it worth it.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
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