Waht used to annoy me ( and maybe i'm being naive here), was when i had sky sports. I'd be shelling out for it every month, yet when i sat down to watch a game, i'd be told that it's been brought to me in association with Ford! I used to think, surely it's in association with ME..i'm the one paying for it..
I made this exact point on another thread the other day. Sky make a fortune from subscriptions. They could at least show LESS adverts than they do, There are a ridiculous amount of adverts on all the commercial stations.
It comes down to greed, pure and simple.
Fewer, not less.
Also, the point made above, most channels get pennies per subscriber from a subscription. There must be around 700 channels so the ads help them make money.
Very good question OP, never thought about it but why should we put up with the horrendous amount of ads when we pay a subscription? Please enlighten us Murdoch!
how exactly is the BBC ad free? they spend just as long b'twixt programmes advertising themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are trailers not adverts, every channel does them how else are you supposed to know what is coming up. And 2-3 mins after a show is hardly a lot.
Its funny though as I assume Sky Atlantic has adverts between shows yet most of these are from HBO who don't show ads hence shows like Boardwalk Empire being an hour long.
Sky Movies can survive without ads inbetween and Sky Arts limit ads sometimes don't they? If all Sky owned channels went ad free it would make the platform a lot more attractive.
My gripe is why we have to pay the licence fee to own a tv when it's not for the actual tv, it's to finance the BBC only.
I could happily forego the occasional show I watch (on BBC2 or 3, catch think when I last watched BBC1) on the BBC if I had the choice to opt out of the licence fee and 'just' pay my Sky bill. I don't listen to BBC radio either but am financing it.
The licence fee is archaic and outdated and the BBC should find an alternative way of financing itself. They've had it very easy for far too long.
I made this exact point on another thread the other day. Sky make a fortune from subscriptions. They could at least show LESS adverts than they do, There are a ridiculous amount of adverts on all the commercial stations.
It comes down to greed, pure and simple.
Sky will not show FEWER adverts than they presently do as the customers seem happy to view 15 minutes of adverts per hour. They even pay many hundreds of pounds each year for the privilege!
There are ads plus subscriptions are there to ensure that Sky makes £1.2 bn profit.
Greed, pure and simple
I am one of the most vocal anti-Murdoch people for the way he sent the UK press down market (yet strangely kept the broadsheets afloat to this day).
He has many detractors and some even link him to criminal gangs who flooded the UK market with fake OnDigital cards in the 1980s to kill off Sky's competition.
I for one do not believe that Rupert Murdoch would stoop so low as to authorise any of his employees to undertake criminal behaviour to further his business interests.
The News of the World was a simple aberration.
Now that I've got my anti-Murdoch rant off my chest I have to admit that the man has totally transformed the coverage of sport in the UK.
When the comfy BBC/ITV duopoly were in charge you would go to an event 5 minutes before it started and exit as soon as it ended.
The BBC were complacent for far too long and Sky gave them a needed kicking up the arse.
Even C4 improved Test Match coverage compared to the BBC.
Rupert Murdoch and Sky have done many good things for sports coverage in the UK and has definitely given the mainstream broadcasters a kick up the backside.
Sky will not show FEWER adverts than they presently do as the customers seem happy to view 15 minutes of adverts per hour. They even pay many hundreds of pounds each year for the privilege!
Sadly true. But I may be one of the ones about to jump ship for that very reason.
And likewise ads are a part of the show. At least a part of any good show. The best part. They are there to entertain you. Little cute vignettes! Even better they are there to help you. To help you to buy all the right things.
I don't know where people ever got the idea that pay TV should be ad free? Maybe there was some silly talk of all that back in the beginning, but certainly we've had a long enough time to forget all that tosh. Pay TV is just another great thing to buy. Stop thinking yourselves into a state of worry and discomfort, folks.
I hope this is a windup.
My mantra is if I pay for a subscription then don't pester me with adverts and sponsorship nonsense.
how exactly is the BBC ad free? they spend just as long b'twixt programmes advertising themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is demonstrably simply not true. aka a lie.
The average commercial station's hour-long programme in Primetime - eg ITV - is around 48 mins in when you disregard the ads. For stations that show primarily US content, this increases to 18 mins.
The average hour-long BBC show is 58 mins. That's a whole ten minutes longer.
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Perhaps they should switch to Virgin then.
Can't get Virgin in lots of places.
They only made just over a billion quid profit last year, the poor lambs, so they clearly need every penny of our subs.
Fewer, not less.
Also, the point made above, most channels get pennies per subscriber from a subscription. There must be around 700 channels so the ads help them make money.
Greed, pure and simple
Very smug of you.
Why are adverts such an issue? Record it and watch it like normal people do.
They are trailers not adverts, every channel does them how else are you supposed to know what is coming up. And 2-3 mins after a show is hardly a lot.
Its funny though as I assume Sky Atlantic has adverts between shows yet most of these are from HBO who don't show ads hence shows like Boardwalk Empire being an hour long.
Sky Movies can survive without ads inbetween and Sky Arts limit ads sometimes don't they? If all Sky owned channels went ad free it would make the platform a lot more attractive.
I could happily forego the occasional show I watch (on BBC2 or 3, catch think when I last watched BBC1) on the BBC if I had the choice to opt out of the licence fee and 'just' pay my Sky bill. I don't listen to BBC radio either but am financing it.
The licence fee is archaic and outdated and the BBC should find an alternative way of financing itself. They've had it very easy for far too long.
Ok , Rupert.
That's my strategy on Freeview with my Humax PVR. I never watch commercial channels live now (even C4 News - I am that impatient!)
I'm holding off Youview with TalkTalk as the first boxes do not allow skipping.
I may buy a 3rd party box once I know one that it is as good as my current Humax.
Sky will not show FEWER adverts than they presently do as the customers seem happy to view 15 minutes of adverts per hour. They even pay many hundreds of pounds each year for the privilege!
I am one of the most vocal anti-Murdoch people for the way he sent the UK press down market (yet strangely kept the broadsheets afloat to this day).
He has many detractors and some even link him to criminal gangs who flooded the UK market with fake OnDigital cards in the 1980s to kill off Sky's competition.
I for one do not believe that Rupert Murdoch would stoop so low as to authorise any of his employees to undertake criminal behaviour to further his business interests.
The News of the World was a simple aberration.
Now that I've got my anti-Murdoch rant off my chest I have to admit that the man has totally transformed the coverage of sport in the UK.
When the comfy BBC/ITV duopoly were in charge you would go to an event 5 minutes before it started and exit as soon as it ended.
The BBC were complacent for far too long and Sky gave them a needed kicking up the arse.
Even C4 improved Test Match coverage compared to the BBC.
Rupert Murdoch and Sky have done many good things for sports coverage in the UK and has definitely given the mainstream broadcasters a kick up the backside.
Sadly true. But I may be one of the ones about to jump ship for that very reason.
Because they show too many adverts?
I hope this is a windup.
My mantra is if I pay for a subscription then don't pester me with adverts and sponsorship nonsense.
That, yes, because I'm not organised enough that everything I watch is recorded. Most of it is, but I still see too many ads even then.
Also I really only go out of my way to watch stuff on Atlantic.
I might as well just buy box sets of my favourite shows and cancel my subscription. Save a fortune.
Or do as most do and watch them via ......:p
Torrents?
The average commercial station's hour-long programme in Primetime - eg ITV - is around 48 mins in when you disregard the ads. For stations that show primarily US content, this increases to 18 mins.
The average hour-long BBC show is 58 mins. That's a whole ten minutes longer.
So please stop posting nonsense.