In Poland average commercial break take around 10-15 minutes. It is so bad that even our shitty bootlicking government felt the need to regulate that, but of course they fucked up and it changed nothing. There are more commercial time in TV than the non-commercial time, and the public TV is not much better than the private one despite hevy subsidies and mandatory subsription from every home (27,50 PLN monthly as of now).
pretty sure theres EU regulation that should limit the ads to a certain percentage of the show. Except in cases the show is a comercial itself.
So is Poland not following EU regulations?
I guess they found a loophole. I noticed they very much like to put a commercials right before the show ends, and after it ends they put another one. There’s also tons of previews of their own shows (i guess that don’t count as commercials) weidly sandwitched between commercial blocks - and that could alternate for a long time. Maybe something like that.
I remember debacle about the volume of the commercials, stations tend to put them up much louder than shows, so people were getting blasted with decibels out of nowhere, this was forbidden too, so they also circumvented that by some kind of sound frequency trick so the commercials are still perceptively louder than shows.
Or maybe they just are ignoring it altogether, polish television regulating organ is very slow and blind unless international scandal blows in their faces.
the loudness thing is indeed a trick to boost perception without breaking rules on peak amplitude.
On the length thing, is weird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_advertisements_by_country#Europe
I keep bringing up how much I deeply hate ads and the people I’ve talked to about it have been weirdly apathetic. I don’t know how they feel, but to me the omnipresent ads does more psychological damage to me than any other capitalist schemes to melt my brain.
Completely agree, I find it oppressive and a constant psychological assault.
I use adblock online and I only listen to public radio and watch public TV (which have no ads). The only times when I am exposed to advertisments are billboards, newspapers, shopping, and whenever I make the mistake to browse on my phone. I still feel like I’m drowning, how do people cope with this shit
Public TV not having ads? what is this commie shit? Here in Spain they put ads there too lol. Except on the 24h channel, where theres a continous news loop.
