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From: stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Re: Re: worst commercials of 1985
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 15:33:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 15:33:48 1986
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> > I have gotten into the habit of videotaping EVERYTHING to watch at a later
> > date so that I can scan thru the commercials.  I think of the millions of
> > $$$'s the advertisers spend on putting their annoying productions on the
> > air, and how their messages are lost on me.  Ha ha ha ha ha.
> 
> 	I have been a Saturday Night Live fan for years, but most of the
> time I tape it because that show seems to have the worst commercial-to-program
> ratio.  One night I actually measured the commercial time with a stopwatch,
> and it was 13 minutes per hour, which I believe exceeds network guidelines
> (9 minutes per hour max?).  That sucks.


      9 minutes /hr? During Peter The Great, I timed the
commercials. 5 minutes of PTG, then 4 minutes of ads, then 5
minutes of PTG and 4 minutes of ads - and so on and so on
and so on for the 2 nights I watched (could only stand so
much of that). It might have been very good, but who could tell? 
Would have taped it, but VHS was being used for something else 
(no, NOT Sins).
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