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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Why are commercial breaks longer now?
 
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Shima Honnou
Dec 1, 2010

The Once And Future King Of Dicetroit

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Our corporate masters own us, OP, that's why. Eventually TV is going to be 45 minutes of commercials and 15 minutes of show.

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Shima Honnou
Dec 1, 2010

The Once And Future King Of Dicetroit

College Slice

Zogo posted:

Squeezing the last drop out of a lemon. Scraping the bottom of the barrel while the silent generation still breathes.

The Outer Limits (1963–1965) 51 minutes of content in 60 minutes = 15% commercials.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) 45 minutes of content in 60 minutes = 25% commercials

I think some of the newer shows are closer to 40 minutes than 45 minutes. Which is ~33% commercials.


The question I have is why does Cable TV costs hundreds of dollars when so many channels are filled to the brim with commercials and movies on the "premium channels" aren't even shown in their correct aspect ratio. HBO, Starz, Showtime, Encore among others are constantly displaying 2.35:1 films in 16:9 (1.77:1).

I work with raw footage that usually includes commercial blacks and on average you're looking at between 41 and 47 minutes of actual footage for an hour long episode. It varies a lot depending on how long the commercial blacks are (In some shows it can eat as much as 10 minutes of the actual footage runtime, in others it's literally less than a second of downtime between running footage), and what channel the show is going on.

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