I've noticed that say, in a drama like Vera, fore example there are few
breaks in the early part but masses in the later parts which tends to make
the end very hard to follow, at least for me. This is no doubt done as they
assume you are hooked by then in the way the story unfolds and trying to
guess the real culprit out of the many suspects.

One thing that is interesting on a slightly allied subject is audio
described commercials, there are quite a lot of them now on most stations
with audio described content, but I'd have thought any freeview channel
would be able to send this track but it appears not as if, say the audio
described Virgin or Waitrose commercials appear on stations like the CBS
ones there is no AD on the same commercials, even though it has to be there
on the supplied data stream they get.
Brian

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"Chris J Dixon" <chris@cdixon.me.uk> wrote in message
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> Max Demian wrote:
>
>>I suspect that payment to the programme makers follows from the amount
>>of money available from the adverts, not the other way round. They put
>>as many adverts on that they think people can stand, and distribute the
>>money amongst themselves.
>>
>>Even nowadays, most people who watch broadcast TV watch live, rather
>>than recording and watching later.
>>
>>I don't think those of us who skip adverts need shed any tears for TV
>>and advertising executives.
>
> Quite!
>
> I notice that watching programmes online from UKTV, usually
> because the PVR recording has failed due to a poor signal, there
> are actually minimal adverts, mostly trailers, and some breaks
> run straight to the next section.
>
> Perhaps their advertisers feel that fans of technology and
> history programmes are not their target audience. ;-)
>
> Chris
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