Comments on: A Good Idea Gone Wrong https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2008/04/06/a-good-idea-gone-wrong/ Joe Palazzolo's Blog Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:56:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Richard Soderberg https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2008/04/06/a-good-idea-gone-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1862 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:56:29 +0000 http://blog.thebalrogslair.com/2008/04/06/a-good-idea-gone-wrong/#comment-1862 Here in Silicon Valley they broadcast it on Comcast with commercials three times an hour, but none of the “few seconds” stuff described above. There was a good 20 minutes of part 2 that had bad encoding (staticky audio). I don’t think we would have tolerated watching it had they done such commercials.

]]> By: Jacob Spades https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2008/04/06/a-good-idea-gone-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1861 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:58:45 +0000 http://blog.thebalrogslair.com/2008/04/06/a-good-idea-gone-wrong/#comment-1861 HAHAHA! I think I may try that!

]]> By: Joe https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2008/04/06/a-good-idea-gone-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1860 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:35:56 +0000 http://blog.thebalrogslair.com/2008/04/06/a-good-idea-gone-wrong/#comment-1860 Right – they swindle you into listening to the commercials. It’s like the problem that I have with The Howard Stern Show and their 15 minute non-show content breaks. I call them “non-show content breaks” because they give you a 2-minute lead out with some prank phone call, a 4 or 5-minute Howard 100 News update, 5-minutes of commercials, and then 3 or 4-minutes of a musical/prank phone call lead-in before you get back to the show.

For a service that you pay for, that’s ridiculous.

I had a professor one time who told the class that he called his cable company and asked them to turn off the commercials. The woman on the phone was like, “Huh?” And he explained that he’s paying a lot of money each month for the cable channels so he does not need to be advertised to via the commercials…please turn them off. The cable company didn’t know how to respond!

]]> By: Jacob Spades https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2008/04/06/a-good-idea-gone-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1859 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:54:57 +0000 http://blog.thebalrogslair.com/2008/04/06/a-good-idea-gone-wrong/#comment-1859 Yeah, I noticed that problem, too. I’ve also noticed it with the radio down here. There are a couple stations that promote “50 minutes of music” or “fewer commercial breaks than the other guys”, but they pull the same shenanigans. They give you about 35 minutes of nonstop music, then pause for about 2 minutes to give a few commercials, and then it’s back to the music. However, at about 10 til the top of the hour, they will make up for it and play nearly 8 minutes of nonstop commercials. You gotta believe they lose nearly all of their listening audience. Who really wants to sit through that?

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