On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:03:26 -0800 (PST), David Paste
wrote:

On Nov 15, 11:16*pm, Larry Jaques
wrote:

and 27-minutes/hour of commercials.

Is that bit true?!

Probably not quite, but for news programming, the last time I timed it
for the half hour nightly news, there were 13 minutes of commercials.
For decades, I got ****ed at the commercials always interrupting a
movie.

On TV, a movie will take 2 hours to be broadcast. When you go to buy
the same exact movie on DVD it's only, say, 87 minutes long.
Disgusting.

I recall BBC America being a bit better than that, though.
I wish they'd had more episodes of Red Cap. That Tamzin Outhwaite gal
was a real looker and I thoroughly enjoyed the shows; less predictable
than US programming.

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