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Nick Radesca is a volunteer at SeniorNet FSL, a Huntington based
not-for-profit learning center dedicated to training seniors in computer technology. Visit their website at seniornethuntington.org. Nick can be reached at 631-427-3700, x268 or nick2p@yahoo.com
Seniors - Nick Radesca
I’ve always hated TV commercials, but since they paid for my favorite shows I accepted them. In the early days of television - when TV was free, I watched 4 minutes of commercials in a half hour show. Today however, in addition to paying a cable company for my TV signal, those 4 minutes of commercials have grown to an astounding 10 minutes or one third of a show’s time. Let’s say if on average you watch three hours of TV a night, that exposes you to 60 minutes of commercials. That’s more than enough shouting and jingles to drive someone (me) insane.
Over the years as more and more TV time was given over to commercials I found myself switching channels to view any show in progress, which drove my wife crazy. That was then. Now for a little bit more money each month I have a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) which allows me to easily record all my favorite shows AND fast forward through commercials. The DVR solved my TV problems but commercials on radio bugged me too until recently when I bought a car with commercial-free satellite radio. During the three month free trial period I was sold. I liked it so much that I even bought a satellite radio for my home.
With commercials expunged from our home lives my wife and I make an extra effort not to arrive at the movie theater early for the “preshow entertainment.”
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