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Here we suffer from ~15 minutes of commercials per hour on the 3 commercial networks. They also have animations that crawl across the bottom of the screen and squash the end credits of programs into the corner of the screen in order to fill the rest with station promos. Most of the cable channels do the same thing. The foreign language/special interest channel on free to air (SBS) runs commericals between shows, but rarely interupts the shows themselves (at least the shows I watch, I suspect they may interupt some programs). Even our public access channel interupts their programs for ads, but not to the extent that the commercial networks do. The only channel here that doesn't run ads is the government operated ABC, but they do run their own promos between programs.
When I watch old tapes that have ads on them I can't help but notice that the ads and station promos seem to get more intrusive every year, but I still manage to ignore them most of the time. Though often network TV here is used more as background noise, or is simply on to test a set that I have just repaired. I find myself seriously watching less and less.
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