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Old Sat Mar 25, 2006, 05:30pm
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Thursday I sat and deleted all the commercials from the first game which I videotaped. The broadcast lasted from 4PM to 6:35PM. I used 2hrs and 2 minutes of tape. That tells you that 33 minutes was commercials.
33/155 x 100% = 21%

That's has to compare to the time devoted to commercials in the Superbowl.
You do realize broadcast TV is a for-profit enterprise, right?

Anywho...30 minute sitcoms have 22 minutes of content.

That's like 27% commercials.
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