[geeks] American Cable Tee Vee

[William S.]

Here in Amsterdam, most of the TV stations run
a few commercial breaks but not nearly as many
as in the US. The thing that annoys me most
is having to watch commercials in the movie theater.
Before the main feature begins you get a few
trailers of upcoming releases which I don't mind
too much as long as they don't give away the plot.
But then there is maybe another 5 min of TV type commercial
stuff which I don't like since I paid for a ticket.
Maybe it helps keep the price of a ticket lower.
I think the last time I went it was about 6 USD.

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:29:33PM -0500, Amy wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Steven Hill wrote:
> > I have just suffered that damned Meow Mix advert for the 8th time
> > today.
> 
> i crack up every time i see the lyrics to that annoying song that cat
> sings.
> 
> > What is it with TV here.
> 
> we're very bound to our commercialism..when have you ever not met an
> american that was not trying to sell ya somethin'?
> 
> > Surely there are intelligent Americans who can resist this gash
> > programming and constant adverts? Surely the average attention span is
> > longer than 10 minutes?
> 
> yep, there are. we generally watch a lot of dvd's and use the tivo to edit
> out the commercials.
> 

-- 
Bill
Amsterdam, NL