Is an average of 8 minutes between tv commercials acceptable?

Question

For many months have watched popular TV shows ruined by
constant advertisements. They appeared to be more frequent
on all channels ,when the programme was highly rated. To
be positive I have sat watch in hand timing how frequent
the advertisements appear,the average is every 8 minutes and
at times less. From an hour length programme almost half is
taken up with commercials. I have lodged complaints to Free TV etc listing the times and received pages of facts and figures " GOBBIDILY GOOP" to show the channels are within
time guidlines,frequency and length. I would challenge the
powers that be to sit as I have with a watch and then concider
the results acceptable. What would be the response from a
cinema audience be if they were treated this way or anyone
reading a book and being interupted every few minutes.
once again is this acceptable? Thank goodness for the ABC

Answer 1

i asked this question not too long ago and got as many answers as you, lol
dosent anyone else NOTICE?

im glad for the abc channel too,
we have foxtel and beleive me they are worse, my hubby whinges every single day saying
FU#KIN COMMERCIAL BREAKS,
IM GONNA RING THEM AND BLAST THEM,
I FEEL LIKE THROWING THE TV OUT THE WINDOW
THERES MORE COMMERCIALS THAN THE SHOW ITSELF
he gets so mad, lol, ITS REALLY annoying, by the time you get into whats happening they throw in a commercial break, by the time it comes back on you forgot what you were actually watching

good luck, im with you, xxxxxxxxxx

Answer 2

No it isn't acceptable. It's damn right annoying. We usually watch cartoons on ABC all day, because of the kids. Then when they go to bed, it's time for BIG people shows.
I lose interest when there are to many commercials. We were sitting down watching a real sob story movie the other night and I was having myself a cry then a commercial came on. Music & light blaring. By the time the movie came back on I was more interested in the new vacuum cleaner that was advertised.
I guess they have to sell their products, but 8 minutes is too long. I can handle up to 3 maybe 4 minutes. But 8 minutes, I am lost, ready to go shopping.

Can you really complain over this? I never though about that. Hmm. Maybe you should start a partition on here for it. I would add my 5 cents. After all Yahoo in Australia is sponsored by the lovely 7 netwoork.