Yep and Amen.
Yep, and here’s something to keep you occupied between trips to the pump.
Thanks for rebutting much better than I can.
Oh, yeah, and there are television screens in the elevators at work now, purporting to deliver interesting factoids, but in reality cramming ads in the faces of the captive audience riding to their floors. In fact, the name of the company delivering this crap is “Captivate”, which shows their awareness of the “captive audience” angle. In this case, though, I can’t avoid it by using the stairs - I work on the 11th floor.
For the truly offended a piece of tape and paper can cover the annoyance. Tape on. Pump gas. Tape off. As for the sound, half of the local places pipe in crap at volumes that hertz my ears. 
hertz I don’t think I’m ready to poke out my ear drums to spite them yet. Too bad the ads are on LCD instead of picture tubes. A few strategic magnets could do wonders for them.
This is my problem with them too. I don’t mind the TV screens, but when I’m trying to talk to someone while I pump gas, I really would rather not have some idiot yammering at me in a voice so loud I can’t hear myself think.
Third step optional 
It’s possible that I’m of the exact right age and spazziness that I would much rather prefer that my eyes and ears be stimulated while standing around idle instead of spending those 5 minutes awkwardly trying to avoid staring at the other patrons who are awkwardly trying to avoid staring at me. I must be of a generation that finds comfort in moving pictures, not disgust.
One dimwit who’ll set himself on fire because he was distracted by the ad, and 12 jurors willing to validate his claim; that’s all we’re biding our time for.
Are yours really ALL advertisements?
The ones by me have maybe a 10-15 second ad followed by local news headlines and weather.
While the ad is playing I don’t watch the screen but I can hear it so it’s more like a radio ad. No biggie.
Then when they do the weather I can glance up and get the 5-day forecast. Somewhat useful.
haha, you know it’s only a matter of time.
Complaining to Chevron or the station owner is absolutely the wrong way to go about this. What you want to do is get several friends (in their own cars, of course) to drive up, get out, and watch some TV. Bonus points if you don’t even fill up. Watch for a good hour or two. Do not tolerate anyone who wants to rob you of your valuable TV-watching time.
Yes, it is fun being an evil clown, why do you ask?
Oddly enough, my friends would SO do this. Snort I’m crackin’ up here…
It’s not generational. My kids are younger than you are and they’re able to handle being around strangers without the comforting drone of a television screen.
Wait a minute. Are you saying you go to a station with both television screens and locking pumps?
I think the TVs only turn on while the pump is pumping gas 
Your age is no excuse. Is your spazziness a medical condition? Do you ever just think about things?
I absolutely DETEST those ads.
Luckily, the only station around here that has them installed “OFF” buttons that kill the sound for a few minutes. The video is still there, but I’m capable of looking in a different direction, so I don’t mind. The sound is what drives me nuts, and I always hit the off button within 3 milliseconds of when it starts yammering.
I know a case where ads actually retreated!
They’ve been installing video screens in metro stations here in Montreal (because the car cards, and the station posters, and the specially decorated trains, and the enormous posters at certain stations, and the stickers on the stairwells and floors, and the ads on the monthly passes, and the redecorated stations, and the entire new paint job at McGill metro just weren’t enough). Anyway, they’re actually kind of good - they have news headlines and a little indicator of when the next train is. But the ones at Berri-UQAM metro actually had sound, which was the worst goddamn thing ever. Everyone hated it.
And much to my amazement, they shut the sound off.
These [del]people[/del] advertisers no longer know the meaning of the word ‘moderation’.
I don’t mind having ad-saturated zones in cities, like Dundas Square in Toronto. But I also think we should have ad-free zones, maintained equally as vigorously. The advertisers need to know that their media usage exists on sufferance, and can be limited by other forces, such as the will of government.
Perhaps if Cathedral Square ever gets built, it can be an ad-free space.
A former coworker of mine left the company last year to join a startup that does exactly this kind of gas station TV “broadcasting.”
He must have seen the look on my face when he told me (I really don’t like the “bombard the senses” approach to advertising), because the next thing he said was “yeah…I know…but it pays better than this gig.”
How long before we have to start distributing emergency video players to prevent rioting and societal breakdown?
“My god, they could lobotomize the network. Without television, this city would be ungovernable!” – “Max Headroom”
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