"Commercial breaks" refers to short interruptions during television or radio programs where advertisements or commercials are shown. These breaks allow advertisers to promote their products or services to the audience.
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between commercial breaks while watching TV, while doing a load of laundry, while the kids do their homework — anytime!
With potential ways to purchase ranging from credit cards and personal loans to retailer financing plans, you could be watching prime time TV before the
first commercial break.
There's a reason that bathroom lines are so long at half - time, and why people wait
until commercial breaks to go pee.
But we've got you covered: now you can get an awesome workout done in just 4 minutes — that's less time than
most commercial breaks.
With Legrand now in the ad campaign's lead role, television viewers will soon be seeing «The Most Interesting Man in the World» during
commercial breaks in between college football games this fall, as Dos Equis has signed a multi-year sponsorship deal with the College Football Playoff.
Spitzer, who is financing his own campaign, has had the television airwaves to himself for roughly two weeks in an effort to define the campaign on his own terms
before commercial breaks become swamped with ad buys from the city's many mayoral candidates.
Additionally, the NFL plans on reducing the amount of
commercial breaks for the upcoming season in a bid to reverse declining ratings.
All of this is to say: The movies we spent the most time loving or debating this year are, in a way, already history, mingled in with all the other movies we've seen from previous years, ready to be forgotten, rewatched, remembered, canonized, or best yet, discovered for the first time, for years and years after their release, via Blu - rays, torrents, art house retrospectives, Netflix, and pan-and-scan adaptations
with commercial breaks on TV.
Turn on the TV and zap through the channels and the chances are you'll come across an infallible doctor - either a talking head such as «Dr Phil» or one of the good looking fictional doctors of House, ER, Grey's Anatomy et al who, in a mere 60 minutes
including commercial breaks and side - plots, manage to diagnose and cure the most obscure of illnesses.
Cable news has devolved into shouting matches punctuated
by commercial breaks, and whether or not viewers learn anything is secondary to the entertainment value of CNN or Fox or MSNBC.
Get your documentation together and fill out the application; you can do the whole thing during over a couple
commercial breaks while you're watching «The Good Place.»
Might as well toast with that, because it's arguably the most memorable phrase from
NFL commercial breaks this season.
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Redeeming itself from an overblown first half and having its energy continually sapped by
frequent commercial breaks, NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert was saved Sunday night by its emotional climax, as Brandon Victor Dixon (as Judas Iscariot) delivered an unforgettably raucous take on the show's title number and John Legend (as Jesus) floated away on a cross into an impressively ethereal light display.
Episodes are split into chapters
where commercial breaks occur (a new phenomenon for Sundance, and one easily noticed even in DVD viewing).
Richard Levinson and William Link, the creators of Columbo and the kings of seventies mystery TV, developed the show, wrote the pilot and produced the series, an old - fashioned mystery show with a wonderful stylistic trick: just before he solves crime, and right before the show fades out for the
final commercial break, Ellery turns to the audience and gives them a hint to solve the crime before he does.
took the first seat available, happens to be right next to Steven Spielberg Cut to
next commercial break, guess who comes back to her seat... (me) Dear Meryl, please forgive me!!!
However, when I tried playing it on my iPad Air, I couldn't enjoy the game because the minutes - long load times really messed with the flow of the story (it's like watching a movie with
long commercial breaks)...
If you're watching TV (and I can't convince you to turn it off), M - O - V - E during
commercial breaks instead of flipping through the channels, waiting for your show to come back on.
The live feeds have
commercial breaks just like cable and satellite TV, and ads are interspersed with the on - demand content as well.
Netflix premiered a movie trailer for The Cloverfield Paradox, the third film in a loosely - connected sci - fi trilogy from producer J.J. Abrams, during one of the very
expensive commercial breaks between the action of last night's game on NBC.
Sling TV pushes the same ads you see during
typical commercial breaks on TV channels delivered via satellite or cable TV services.
Listeners don't seem to
mind commercial breaks in podcasts and are influenced by the messaging they're hearing.
Greenfield said passionate sports fans are focused on their mobile or tablet during
commercial breaks rather than watching ads on TV, so it creates a new way to monetize viewers who are less and less interested in ad spots.
The last 20 minutes of the episode are usually devoted to speculation and deliberation about who is getting sent home that week, with
several commercial breaks in between and a few «up next» shots designed to make you guess which contestant may be the one who gets the ax.
According to a Tuesday report by the Toronto Sun, which shares office space and the same parent company as Sun News, the one - hour program [including
commercial breaks] took five hours to record and an incredible «day and a half» to edit.
The memo also says that the reason for these changes is that Hulu Plus has just been too successful for its own good, which means it's time for the powers that be to remind everyone that, regardless of whatever hippy technological advances humanity has made in terms of streaming video, nature intended television to be watched on actual televisions, at certain times, with
certain commercial breaks, and that's not going to change on their watch...
These could cut four to nine minutes per game by themselves — one to two fewer in -
game commercial breaks would save three to six minutes, and a couple of shorter reviews would save one to three minutes — and that's before we get to the harder - to - measure impact of adjusted clock rules.
During Sunday's Michigan - Michigan State game, CBS had just come out of
commercial break when they panned to a Michigan cheerleader, and...