More shitverts coming to TV

[rogerzilla]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61997064

Mad Nad's in charge, so it will be as bad as you could imagine.

It's already at the stage where we record everything so we can skip them.

[Jaded]

Indeed. Our Shitbox remote control even understands the verbal command “forward four* minutes” when watching recordings.

*other numbers available

Apparently it is because more people access content by streaming. Putting more adverts on live TV will, of course, make people watch less streaming and more live TV. They might even get to see Johnny Wilkinson scoring a match-winning headed wicket.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The frequency and length of advertising will be reassessed in light of evolving viewing habits and the rise of streaming services, Ofcom said.

Apparently it is because more people access content by streaming. Putting more adverts on live TV will, of course, make people watch less streaming and more live TV. They might even get to see Johnny Wilkinson scoring a match-winning headed wicket.

People are watching TV via streaming in part to avoid the adverts, so let's have more adverts. Hmmm...

[Wowbagger]

Indeed. Our Shitbox remote control even understands the verbal command “forward four* minutes” when watching recordings.

*other numbers available

Apparently it is because more people access content by streaming. Putting more adverts on live TV will, of course, make people watch less streaming and more live TV. They might even get to see Johnny Wilkinson scoring a match-winning headed wicket.

Whilst playing guitar for Dr. Feelgood...

[Cudzoziemiec]

Indeed. Our Shitbox remote control even understands the verbal command “forward four* minutes” when watching recordings.

*other numbers available

Apparently it is because more people access content by streaming. Putting more adverts on live TV will, of course, make people watch less streaming and more live TV. They might even get to see Johnny Wilkinson scoring a match-winning headed wicket.

Whilst playing guitar for Dr. Feelgood...

In a chain of high-street shops...

[citoyen]

This is just going to make commercial TV unwatchable.

I mean, even more unwatchable than it is already.

Ugh.

[rogerzilla]

Channels like Yesterday have some interesting* content but the adverts are depressing: funeral plans, cheap cremations, crappy collectors' coins and equity release.

*for men of a certain age

[Mr Larrington]

I expect the shitverts during the live coverage of the TdF will be very similar and almost, though not quite, make me yearn for the camp-as-a-row-of-tents Money Supermarket ones.  There'll doubtless be trailers urging us to view the mating rituals of orange people too.

[Kim]

Do people still watch broadcast television?  Sports and waiting rooms, I suppose.

[Mr Larrington]

This Unit tears itself away from the Babbage-Engine at 6 pip-emma on weekdays so as to:

• Shout abuse at politicians on the BBC news, and
• [“TMI” – The Invigilator], and
• Roffle at TV's Krishnan Guru Murthy and Cathy Newman sticking the boot into Tories, senior coppers and other deserving parties

while scoffing me din-dins.

Sport on commercial channels is tricky, you need to start watching the recording so as to catch up with the live broadcast as close to the end as possible, but not so late that the recording stops before the actual programme does.  Which seems to happen three times a week with ITV4's TdF show.

[ian]

Do people still watch broadcast television?  Sports and waiting rooms, I suppose.

I think the only thing we watch is the TdF on the interweb and that has a lot of adverts. I wouldn't want to sit through them routinely (on US TV it was quite possible to click through 50 channels and hit the ad-break on each, but I think the current US regulation is 22 minutes of adverts per programmed hour).

[Mr Larrington]

I expect the shitverts during the live coverage of the TdF will be very similar […]

They are.

[spesh]

I expect the shitverts during the live coverage of the TdF will be very similar and almost, though not quite, make me yearn for the camp-as-a-row-of-tents Money Supermarket ones.

But not so bad as to induce nostalga for G*C*mp*re shiverts?

[citoyen]

I expect the shitverts during the live coverage of the TdF will be very similar and almost, though not quite, make me yearn for the camp-as-a-row-of-tents Money Supermarket ones.

But not so bad as to induce nostalga for G*C*mp*re shiverts?

Soon you’ll be longing for the days when every ad break was heralded by a man with a very expensive watch wiggling his arse at you.