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And they can stick it up there. As I've said before, i'm a news junky, but that is going to change.This morning, scanned all the cable news channels.they have turned into HSN.# minutes of news? and 4 minutes of commercials.[3].If I wanted to go shopping I'd go to a store! From now on its kadaza, and NPR and BBC.They have even turned ESPN into a marketing tool.
[QUOTE=kygorski;560809]And they can stick it up there. As I've said before, i'm a news junky, but that is going to change.This morning, scanned all the cable news channels.they have turned into HSN.# minutes of news? and 4 minutes of commercials.[3].If I wanted to go shopping I'd go to a store! From now on its kadaza, and NPR and BBC.They have even turned ESPN into a marketing tool.[/QUOTE]
ESPN has not been on my TV for some time now. I'm against all the sports figures spouting political stuff and ESPN pushing their liberal agenda as well. I just don't care enough about what they think or the athletes who feel the need to voice their opinions on politics. I pick up scores and results from others or websites since that spares me the pain of listening to ESPN or other crap stations.
OK cut funding for aid to other countrys, the heck with the arts, who needs painting of soup cans?But cutting the budget of NPR and public TV is the wrong way.I don't think they have offended " trumpilthinskin".Are we going to be the only country with a national broadcasting system not owned by corporate interests.They have run some great series, like baseball, and the civil war, it wouldn't be woth watching if every few minutes it was interupted with male libido pills, or deoderant commercials, or bears wiping their butts.
Not the cable version, they have a site on kadaza, you can scroll through the celeb BS but still are bombarded by peddlers.
Y'all need to get out of the house and quit watching so much TV. If nothing else find yourself a woman that likes guns, mud, camo, fishing, big trucks and JD then put a ring on it. Lol.
Not gonna happen.I buried 2 wives, and a fiancee.All of them developed serious illnesses, and needed a lot of care.And its a very painfull ordeal to go through.I'm not going to go into the financial aspect, the last one is close to getting me on the road to the poor house.I co-signed for a nice car, she made 2 payments and passed away.I didn't need a car and a fairly new truck, so I sold the truck, I moved from my forest retreat, so we would be near medical care.Paid storage on my boat for almost 3 years.I need a another love interest like a hole in the head, besides, my uncertain future makes it a little difficult to become amourous again.Lets see how spry and sassy you become nearing your 81 st birthday.
[QUOTE=sweetwater;560833]Y'all need to get out of the house and quit watching so much TV. If nothing else find yourself a woman that likes guns, mud, camo, fishing, big trucks and JD then put a ring on it. Lol.[/QUOTE]
Ha! TV and me have parted ways months ago! I saved $100 a month and read more now than ever. I honestly got/get tired of politics and that's so embedded in sports, hollywood and about any show anymore that i had enough. The hell with getting married again! :cool:
[QUOTE=kygorski;560837]Not gonna happen.I buried 2 wives, and a fiancee.All of them developed serious illnesses, and needed a lot of care.And its a very painfull ordeal to go through.I'm not going to go into the financial aspect, the last one is close to getting me on the road to the poor house.I co-signed for a nice car, she made 2 payments and passed away.I didn't need a car and a fairly new truck, so I sold the truck, I moved from my forest retreat, so we would be near medical care.Paid storage on my boat for almost 3 years.I need a another love interest like a hole in the head, besides, my uncertain future makes it a little difficult to become amourous again.Lets see how spry and sassy you become nearing your 81 st birthday.[/QUOTE]I hope I'm around that long so I can find out.
[QUOTE=kygorski;560809]And they can stick it up there. As I've said before, i'm a news junky, but that is going to change.This morning, scanned all the cable news channels.they have turned into HSN.# minutes of news? and 4 minutes of commercials.[3].If I wanted to go shopping I'd go to a store! From now on its kadaza, and NPR and BBC.They have even turned ESPN into a marketing tool.[/QUOTE] a good way to cut out the commercials, use the dvr for any programs you like, it won't be live action but you don't have to watch the commercials. an hour and a half program, you can zap the commercials and finish the program in about 40 minutes...
[QUOTE=waterdog101;560863]a good way to cut out the commercials, use the dvr for any programs you like, it won't be live action but you don't have to watch the commercials. an hour and a half program, you can zap the commercials and finish the program in about 40 minutes...[/QUOTE]
On insight/time warner/spectrum, you can program your remote to do a 30 second jump forward and a 15 second jump back..........
it is NICE, and really makes skipping commercials nice..........
If you want all news and no commercials, just try WAAW.
Cable TV is a rip off. And the internet is becoming the same way. I agree there are way too many **** commercials on TV and on the internet these days. Almost as many minutes of commercials as there is in programming. They use to run two or three 30 second commercials and then take you back to the program. But these days it's 5 or 6 30 second commercials, back to the program highlights for ten second and then back to the commercials for another two minute and then they take you back to your regular program. Five minutes later it's back to the commercials again.
And about 80 to 85% of the channels on my WOW cable are not worth watching at all. Some are broadcast in Spanish only. Hey this is America or the USA and we speak English here you dummies. If you come to the USA and can't learn English then go back to where you came from. Don't expect us to change the way we do things here to accommodate you. You need to make the change and learn to speak and write English. There are classes you can take if you are here legally.
The other channels 4 of them are infomercials that sell things all day long. Several religious channels that I would never watch. Fox noise which I won't even let my dialer show anymore. MSNB on the weekend which all they show is prisoners behind bars fighting with each other. Come on Saudi Arabia we don't need to see that BS anymore. I know you are power hungry and want to control people by showing what happens to bad people who get in jail to scare the rest of us into being under control of the man. But this is getting boring. Either pay from some content on the weekends or get of the air. I should not have to pay for that BS type programming. Then there are the programs above Channel 82 which show reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies and the Brady Bunch which I saw back in the 1960s. I don't need to see reruns of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans or Hogan's Heroes anymore.
Now last night the Voice was on and I watched parts of it. And then the Ice Hockey Stanley Cup playoffs have started and there were several Ice Hockey games to watch. I don't watch Hockey on TV as much as I use to when I played the game in college but when the play off start I tune in to some of the games.
And on top of all the above they keep raising their rates and complain about increase costs to buy the programming. But the commercials are all local companies so this is WOW's commercials that they are running on my TV not the Shows that they buy to put on the cable.
You are right they have way too many commercials. When I watched the Super Bowl it was obvious. And while watching the NCAA Men's Basketball Games this past March it was obvious that they were running way too many **** commercials.
[QUOTE=DJD;560843]Ha! TV and me have parted ways months ago! I saved $100 a month and read more now than ever. I honestly got/get tired of politics and that's so embedded in sports, hollywood and about any show anymore that i had enough. The hell with getting married again! :cool:[/QUOTE]