I know that television stations get their money that way, yet a number of channels that you pay for just inundate their viewers with commercials.
Take the SciFi channel as an example. When they take a commercial break, it could be a good 5 to 10 minutes before they return to the program you were watching. Indeed, feature-length movies have longer commercial runs than half-hour and hour-long series. Yet, you only get SciFi channel if you subscibe to it, it's certainly not broadcast for free.
Going back some 20 years, I recall a time when free channels would run their commercials and often limit the length of time to just 2 minutes. Hardly enough time for a bathroom break. So, what gives?
2007-03-06
02:43:22
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