TV Listing mags in the USA
RickyBarby
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what other tv listing magazines is there in the USA, Apart from tv guide.
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08:00 all programmes on all channels in this hour.
09:00
American channels nearly always start shows on the hour or at the half hour, not the all over the place starting times you get here.
When I was over there years ago I bought a TV Guide - quite handy A5 size, and I guess the layout suited the schedules (as another poster has said).
I do agree our magazines seem to be easier to read - I think there's a mindset here that for years we were only used to seeing a few channels listed, therefore even when umpteen channels were added we were still looking to read our listings by channel rather than time (as in the US).
TBH you could fit the decent stuff on a couple of pages. Most channels are just reruns and reality stuff or endless alternate sports feed channels which are never on!
Apps and Onscreen guides provide all the listings now, though I dare you to find anything to watch on a Saturday night, unless it's a censored movie on network TV with an hour of breaks.
Case in point Indiana Jones 4 where NBC had a ten minute recap of Revolution after a six minute break between the final 'segments' of the film!
Usually around 6. On Today they'll have a 5 minute break and
then return to the show for 30 seconds to tell you what's next
and then have another long break!
premium products such as HBO or Showtime.
All the time. They didn't use to have to give out the warnings but were forced to. One impotence drug states 'If you have an erection last more than 4 hours ring a doctor!' or 'If you stop breathing seek immediate medical attention?!'
They're usually followed by law firms taking class actions against the pharmaceutical company for older drugs with their 'If you or your love one has suffered serious injury or death contact us now.' From beyond the grave presumably.
Otherwise it's fast food or hucksters flogging gold or silver.
Reminds me of the GTA style adverts.:D
Why do people think this is?
American networks will pad to the nearest half hour with commercials, whereas because the amount of commercial advertising a British network can have per hour (as well as the number of breaks) is limited, there's no incentive to pad shows out over here...
That's not true, they've always had contraindication, and side effects, and we're not the only country to advertise prescription drugs on television, New Zealand does it too, and Canada does it but they can either tell you what it does, or name it, but they can't do both tell you what it does and name it.
There's no padding, programs are made to fit in the holes the networks create, a 30 min slot will be filled by a 21-23 minute program, a 60 min slot will be filled with a 44-46 minute program.
I would have thought the average hour long show in the US actually lasts for more like 42-44 mins these days - in the UK we must be at around 44-46mins, when it used to be around 50mins of show per hour.
Hmm you may be right, I haven't paid attention lately. But you can see for your self here http://www.hulu.com/tv/new/episodes the average seems about 43 with most 42-44, and cable has some 41.
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of hearing people on TV always talking about swelling, itchiness, or death. But they're here to stay at least some of them are entertaining, I enjoyed the wind-up lady for Pristiq and watching her waddle across the table, haha.
Ha ha. Pristiq has helped me deal with my depression, just need to sort out these side effects now!