WTF is it with this channel? Can’t they sell their own airtime? They show the same commercials over and over again at every break - and 90% of them are for HDTV - either “Mecum Auto Auction” (YAWN) or that goddamned 3-minute airbox Corvette. Who is going to watch that show? The ad tells the whole story of the car - what else is there? Oh, we all know these low-budget channels take 3 minutes’ worth of material and spread it out into a mind-numbing hour of ennui, but how do they survive with so few real advertisers?
And while I’m on the subject, has COMCAST (or presumably any other cable provider) got a great monopoly going? Wake your sorry ass up at 4:30 a.m. and take a gander at the listings - 95% of the channels are showing PAID PROGRAMMING. So companies pay to broadcast shit we pay to watch. Is diss a system?
So, you want more entertaining commercials, is that it? Many people use that time to go to the bathroon, or grab a snack, or perhaps work on a crossword puzzle until the show comes back on, I dunno. Seems a bit pointless to demand that a TV station only air ads that you consider non-boring.
Sorry about all the paid programming at 4:30 in the morning, though, if that’s when you’re usually watching TV. I’m not watching then, so I guess I don’t really care what anybody is showing.
Maybe get a DVR if this stuff bothers you so much?
It seems that many of these channels are repeating the 3 minutes preceding the commercial again following the commercial. I can pretty much surf multiple channels and follow two or more plots due to that feature.
I love having a DVR. Now I hardly see any ads at all except the ones that fill my email box, that clog my real mailbox, that aren’t blocked by my browser, that I have to watch or listen to before enjoying a streaming media clip, that comprise the final four pages of every six-page bill I receive from everybody I owe money to, that I see on billboards and signs every 200 feet when I’m driving, that I see sailing by on buses, on bus stop park benches, in trains, right in front of my face when I’m using a public urinal, tattooed on the inside of my goddamned eyelids, in my fucking dreams…
I think the OP is a linguistics experiment – you know, “colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” He’s probably going to write a paper on how we all react to total nonsense.
I’d think an airbox would be embarrasing for most women whether they’re in a Corvette or any other car. That’s amazing, there’s a show on that?
While Dana Mecum and his entourage are beyond annoying and hopelessly hokey, many of the cars they run through there are spectacular. That’s one of those ‘thank god for HD’ shows where the details really adds to the viewing enjoyment. Same for Barrett-Jackson, Wayne Carini’s Chasing Classics, Russo and Steele, RM, etc.