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- No13Baby, on 06/04/2008, -2/+346Why do they hate their customers so much?
- PATSCRU, on 06/04/2008, -0/+223I was watching this yesterday when bill engvall came out and paused my program. It's a great way to guarantee that i will never ever ever watch a second of bill engvall ever.
- thebuggalo, on 06/04/2008, -0/+208I caught that too. I was hoping someone would mention it on digg. I find it so ridiculous that they would do this. The 'lower-thirds' ads were annoying, but tolerable. But pausing a television show and having a 15-20 second ad play is a new low.
- TheDarkTipper, on 06/04/2008, -1/+187I was watching this last night when this happened. The worst part: they paused Family Guy for this ad when the commercials were going to play 5 seconds later.
- mjsteinbaugh, on 06/04/2008, -1/+146Additionally, I've noticed stations running text advertisements at the bottom of the screen that don't go away after a brief period. For example, NBC has been plastering their shows with an ad for Nashville Star right next to the peacock logo. Give me a break.
- ISurfTooMuch, on 06/04/2008, -2/+140I think you're misinformed. Viewers aren't their customers; advertisers are. Viewers are just the peons whose eyeballs the networks sell to the advertisers. Viewers are a commodity.
- Branchex, on 06/04/2008, -0/+126Way to make to people hate a show without seeing it.
- Branchex, on 06/04/2008, -2/+111I think they are referring to Time Warner as the owner of TBS, not as the cable provider.
- Conwaysb0718, on 06/04/2008, -1/+91People watch the Tyler Perry show? really?
- DrDigg, on 06/04/2008, -0/+82Looks like a lot of diggers like family guy reruns. I saw it last night too. Told my wife, you have got to be f'ing kidding me. They think that this makes me want to watch this crap?
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -1/+80-customers
+slaves - lovemaster, on 06/04/2008, -0/+74What is just as bad is the commercials which crank up the volume to grab your attention. This is especially true for Cable commercials.
- mikeini, on 06/04/2008, -11/+68its funny you mention this because this happened to me too and i'm on Comcast. I also think its especially lame since the show has been peppered or rather pitched like none other during TNT's coverage of the NBA playoffs.. you couldn't escape it! Even the commentators would make jokes about it.
i mean really.. really? is this necessary anymore. ok we got it ... this show is coming back. why arent you doing it with Tyler Perry's show then? oh wait.. PEOPLE WATCH THAT ONE! - XISUPERMANIX, on 06/04/2008, -0/+56I saw this just last night while watching Family Guy. It was an ad for a crappy show, and it covers half the screen. What is funny is that someone in TBS actually thought this would attract more viewers when in fact I changed the channel about halfway through the ad and never changed back. I do like to watch King of Queens and Seinfeld and thankfully they haven't used the ad in any of those.
- dreicher, on 06/04/2008, -0/+55Hey, TBS, "Here's your sign."
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -1/+50I dont have this issue with The Pirate Bay.
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -4/+52family guy is written by manatees
- RustyJ, on 06/04/2008, -0/+46firefox needs to make a digital cable box, then have it come standard with adblock for TV. They'd be sellin' like hot cakes.
- ISurfTooMuch, on 06/04/2008, -1/+44I just happened to surf by TBS and caught Family Guy, so I decided to watch. Needless to say, I saw the ad, but I was so shocked and pissed off that I don't even remember what it was for. Thanks to Digg, now I know and can safely avoid watching Bill Engvall, whoever the hell he is.
Congrats, TBS, you just lost another viewer. - tehrich, on 06/04/2008, -2/+39Buried for watching G4.
- Conwaysb0718, on 06/04/2008, -4/+40Oddly enough, i paused bill engvall while he paused my viewing of family guy just so i could bitch to my wife how ballsy these guys were getting. its bad enough they take up more and more of the screen (or flashing ***** in the corner and totally blocking out that part of the screen), but now to actually force me to stop what im doing to cram in an ad is just ***** shameless. It aint a time warner issue, its a TBS issue.
- mywhitenoise, on 06/04/2008, -1/+37looked more like 2 seconds later.
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -7/+42We all hate TV ads, but as someone who works in the media industry it is a necessary evil. Trust me, these big companies don't go out of their way to piss you off for the lulz, the market is becoming more saturated with a million channels and shows they have to find some way to attract revenue.
One of the unfortunate victims of this fragmentation of viewers is History Channel seemingly dropping anything History related and focusing on UFOs, Axe Men, and Ice Road Trucker crap
If you really want quality TV without the ads, get Showtime or HBO, trust me, it is worth it. You get what you pay for. - PhantomChicken, on 06/04/2008, -0/+35They do have one for Tyler Perry... Only instead of the pausing the show the character just stares at you from one corner of the screen... this can be traumatizing to small children and drunk people...
- boardthis, on 06/04/2008, -3/+37TBS... this is NOT "very funny"
i think the first time i saw an ad while watching a show was for the halftime show during a football game on FOX. the marketing geniuses thought that i was more likely to watch the halftime show because their ad had james brown, terry bradshaw, howie long and jimmie johnson throwing a football to each other while laughing.
really? pfffft - dvicklund, on 06/04/2008, -1/+31Not to mention that they ruined the joke. It kills the humor if someone horrifically unfunny like Bill Engvall intrudes on what you thought was going to be a funny Family Guy moment.
- MrShinra, on 06/04/2008, -1/+31Well, that just made me NOT want to ever watch or find out who the hell Bill Engvall is and why
he has a show. Congrats TBS, you just sold me on not seeing that show! - 0rthogonal, on 06/04/2008, -1/+29In reality, they aren't turning up the volume, they are using compression to keep the audio in the upper dB range so it is perceived as louder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_wars
But yeah, I hate it too. - Conwaysb0718, on 06/04/2008, -1/+27agreed, SNL is bad enough without a ***** ad permanently stuck to the bottom of the screen.
- sngx1275, on 06/04/2008, -1/+27I would love to. Except that in order to even have access to those channels I have to have a digital cable box (extended basic is the last you can get without a box here). I do have a box because I like the few HD channels that I do get. But at this point, with a 3Mbit down and 512kbit up connection I'm paying $136 a month. Its another $10 for HBO channels, then another $8 for Showtime. So I'd be paying over $150 a month at this point. I know a 10% increase in price isn't terrible, but I have to draw the line somewhere.
If I could do a la carte channels which apparently is never going to happen I'd be happy. - sk8bored8, on 06/04/2008, -5/+29I was livid with rage after I saw this. I'm never watching TBS ever again, under any circumstance. And i'm not joking. I wrote them a VERY angry letter.
- SuckMyDigg, on 06/04/2008, -0/+22You get the same 5 movies played at different times, on 14 channels all day long, every day, for a month.
- zenerdiode, on 06/04/2008, -4/+25***** Bill Engvall. I don't know who he is nor have I ever watched his show. But ***** Bill Engvall. Oh and ***** "The Closer" and "Saving Grace" too. Let me watch basketball in peace.
- Jforsyth89, on 06/04/2008, -2/+21Your blood pressure must be through the roof.
- thebza451, on 06/05/2008, -1/+20people watch SNL?
- KMartSheriff, on 06/04/2008, -3/+21***** G4 . They killed the only worthwhile Tech channel (TechTV). Now it's a bunch of ***** 14 year old jokes and douchbags that make funny voices over video game characters. Even the best they have to offer, Code Monkeys, is terrible.
Yes, I am still very bitter and pissed off. - JBravada, on 06/04/2008, -1/+19Ah yes, but did you see Mike Myer's plug at the end? That .5 second plug doesn't look so bad after 15 seconds of interrupted annoyance.
- MeatyMcBeef, on 06/04/2008, -1/+18If people would put as much creativity into their ads as the shows we'd want to watch them. Some commercials are worth watching. Also product placements work great. Ever see the episode of The Office where Kevin uses a Staples paper shredder to make a salad? Classic
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -3/+19family guy apparently
- slayerab, on 06/05/2008, -2/+18Black people...
- rdubrawski, on 06/04/2008, -1/+16A friend of mine with 4 kids has been using his mythtv box for over a year now. His children are so unused to commercials that when they go to their grandparents house and watch television, they have no immunity and sit transfixed by the advertisements.
Maybe avoiding advertising is not healthy in our environment. It is leaving us with no anti-bodies for when we need to leave our bubble. - Csma, on 06/04/2008, -0/+15It is a vicious cycle, it's especially hard for broadcast television (NBC/CBS/FOX/CW) since they are "free" with ad revenue down, more cable/sate penetration people like me get fired (Production).....The DVR in combination with alienating viewers will be the death of OTA broadcasting.
- borez, on 06/04/2008, -2/+17I was wondering how they were gonna start getting adds into the Bittorent communities content
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -0/+14My thoughts are to submit your blog as an article, not spam comments. :)
- AnubisAscended, on 06/05/2008, -0/+14What we need is Adblock for TV, like we have it for Firefox.
- MillionsLivio, on 06/04/2008, -1/+15Then they need to stop producing such crappy shows. If the shows are good they will bring in an audience. Interrupting shows and playing the same ad three times a commercial break just pisses people off and makes them intentionally never watch the show (see comments above).
- DephexTwin, on 06/04/2008, -1/+15TBS is not a broadcast channel, it is on cable.
- DrCyclops, on 06/04/2008, -1/+15Oh man, Canadian TV is great, isn't it? I watched the season finale of Lost on NBC, and was horrified at the 1/3 screen popup ads that showed up about every 5 minutes.
It really drove home why I pirate TV. -
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