A half hour show will usually just have a single break in the middle, usually around 3 minutes.
Are you talking about the UK or the US? Cos when I've watched TV in the US they always have ad breaks after the titles and before the credits as well as mid show!
Britbox was brilliant this year in streaming a big chuck of the major UK Xmas stuff. Queens Speech, Mrs Browns Boys, Upstart Crow Xmas special, Mary Berry cookery programmes, Emmerdale wedding special. The most brilliant thing they did, which clearly was a laugh, was they did was a Eastender VS Coronation Street Battle for the Xmas specials. They did a pre-roll using very dramatic Hollywood-esque blockbuster music...on a grey background the text appeared (very dramatically).
By Pushing the very limits of AUDIO-VIDEO 'INNOVATION'
We've solved tge UK's most VEXING CHRISTMAS DILEMMA
CORRIE or EASTENDERS?
In the spirit of goodwill to all, we said
WHY CHOOSE?
PUT YOUR HEADPHONES ON NOW
Use your left headphone to listen to CORONATION STREET
Use your right headphone to listen to EASTENDERS
And for the TRULY BOLD use both*
*Britbox accepts not responsibility for storyline mix-ups
Then they proceeded to run both programmes via split screen at the same time. I thought it was brilliant. I didnt watch it of course. I watch it separately, but it was a bit of fun.
For those that dont know Britbox is a service owned by BBC and ITV for US and Canada. Featuring programmes, old and new from both broadcasters.
A half hour show will usually just have a single break in the middle, usually around 3 minutes.
Are you talking about the UK or the US? Cos when I've watched TV in the US they always have ad breaks after the titles and before the credits as well as mid show!
They get 40 minutes between 6pm and 11pm - 21 minutes will be within the soaps and probably another 10.5 minutes in the breaks around them. Torvill and Dean will likely be light on ads too, though ITV rarely use the rules to their advantage. They could have packed the ads in earlier and sold Torvill and Dean as a commercial free Christmas night presentation - could have had a chance of winning the late slot then.
40 minutes! Really? In the states a typical half hour show will have two commercial breaks for 2 minutes each with another 1 minute break before leading into the next show. So 5 minutes per half hour. In a one hour show, it is typically six commercial breaks at 2 minutes each, meaning 12 minutes of commercials, maybe a bit more in the lead out into the next show.
40 minutes in total, between 6pm and 11pm (average of 8 minutes per hour; plus an average of 7 minutes elsewhere), on terrestrial commercial stations
A maximum of 12 minutes of adverts per hour, still according to the rules listed above - not just on a terrestrial channels - and a maximum of 3'30 mins for internal ad breaks, plus some restrictions on the amount of internal ad breaks a programmes can have according to the length of the entry
Much stricter than in the US, but it doesn't take much to do that
Michael McIntyre the highest rated individual show last night at 6.1m, though The Queen got 6.4m across both channels. Strictly got 5.8m, Call the Midwife 5 5m and Jungle Book 5.2m.
Caught the end of the Tommy Cooper retrospective on Channel 5 last night and was struck by how all the clips from news coverage of his death came from the BBC - even though the programme was made by ITN Productions. (I remember watching the episode of Live From Her Majesty’s where he died and am pretty sure it was followed by an ITN newsflash with Trevor McDonald...)
JM
JamesM0984
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The BBC may have, as usual, dominated this year's ratings - but traditional TV viewing on Christmas Day is falling significantly.
Ten years ago, Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death was watched by an overnight audience of 14.3 million people. That's more than double the number who watched this year's highest rated programme, The Queen's Christmas Broadcast
To be fair though, BBC One this year was the weakest it's been for years. The fact that Liz dominated (multi channel or no) says a lot.
People wouldn't turn to VOD services on Xmas Day if the content on linear TV was good.
A entry scheduled for 30 minutes can only have 1 internal ad break, and one long 60 minutes only 3
This really does need to change so that stations can choose to have more internal breaks at the expense of ones at programme junctions, giving them the option of accelerated flow.
A entry scheduled for 30 minutes can only have 1 internal ad break, and one long 60 minutes only 3
This really does need to change so that stations can choose to have more internal breaks at the expense of ones at programme junctions, giving them the option of accelerated flow.
.... and there is the 180 degree opposite to my thinking, less internal breaks, more between programmes for me.
A entry scheduled for 30 minutes can only have 1 internal ad break, and one long 60 minutes only 3
This really does need to change so that stations can choose to have more internal breaks at the expense of ones at programme junctions, giving them the option of accelerated flow.
A entry scheduled for 30 minutes can only have 1 internal ad break, and one long 60 minutes only 3
This really does need to change so that stations can choose to have more internal breaks at the expense of ones at programme junctions, giving them the option of accelerated flow.
.... and there is the 180 degree opposite to my thinking, less internal breaks, more between programmes for me.
There used to be two internal ad breaks for an entry 60 mins long (often with the programme longer than it is now)
But I'm fine with 3, as it's "just" one every fifteen minutes or what you would get with two blocks of 30 minutes. But I wouldn't want broadcasters to increase this any further