Network TV and the prevalence of ads

I saw the last Harry Potter film in the theater last week, and Friday night I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 on DVD. Then, coincidentally, last night Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was on ABC, so I watched that after dinner.

That movie has a run time of 2:18. It filled three hours on ABC last night, and I don’t remember it well enough from my first viewing to see what if anything was cut. Say nothing was; that means there were 42 minutes of ads.

No wonder people use DVRs or buy DVDs.

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