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TV Land on Speed

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Seems as if TV Land again has "up pitched" (speeded up) its programs to make more room for commercials. It was especially noticeable on Bonanza and Leave It To Beaver this afternoon. All the natural pauses in the Bonanza dialogue were practically eliminated and the characters appeared to be on one big non-stop babble. With Beaver's higher-frequency voice (from one of the earlier episodes), Jerry Mathers sounded more like Donald Duck.

Have to wonder if the commercials themselves are on a fast(er) track to create room for an even heavier spot load. TV Land monkeying with the start times on programs and now continuing to run programs at even faster speeds surely will lead to a breakdown in viewership, perhaps sooner rather than later. TV Land execs have just about tinkered the channel to death.
 
Although this has nothing to do with TV Land,on the I network I watched Green Acres the other day and they speeded up the opening credits where Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor sang and it sounded like a fast march and then the closing credits was speeded up as well. Not every episode so far is like that,only 2.
 
It kind of puts me in mind of what radio stations do to the original sound of the music to room up for the spot load. I seem to see the same thing on the classic Scooby Doo cartoons via Cartoon Network or Boomerang. Notice how the whole show was sped up for time restraints. Now I see why the cable industry is going to the dogs......ruff!
 
Agreed. I was also thinking of the tactic applied to radio, as you mentioned. TV Land has been using the technique, as have other channels, for some time now but today's ramp up seemed especially obvious, as if they were pushing the envelope even more. Where does it end? As Ted Mack would say, "Where it stops, nobody knows."

As it is TV Land quite frequently runs a six minute break, then goes to the program close and credits, then another four or five minute break, finally shortly after the following program open yet another four minute break. Viewers are fed up, and so may be sponsors someday when they discover the massive clutter in which the spots they buy are increasingly buried.
 
It seems TV Land has picked up those HUGE spot breaks that Clear Channel radio stations have stopped using!
I could take a nap during the first commercial break in "Murphy Brown" and still wake up for the rejoin.

BTW: Channels that squeeze the credits way-over-to-the-side to make room for some worthless promo
really tighten my jaws! I'm waiting to see if that was "what's his name" playing the part of a bellhop and when the credits flash by...a microscope with freeze-frame ability is need to read them.
There! I've said it!
 
Squeezing the credits makes your jaws tighten up, others say the practice has a similar effect on another part of the anatomy, a couple of feet below the jaw line.

I'm an inveterate reader of credits, also, and get similarly disgusted with microscopic credit rolls.
 
TVLAND is just following the strategies of the other MTV owned networks. MTV/MTV-2 have been doing 5+ minute breaks for years. :mad: Whenever I'm watching something on MTV and they go to a commercial break I glance at the clock and then change the channel. When 5 minutes pass I flip MTV back on and most of the time the show is back.

And I have to say something what the heck is the point of running a commercial break before the credits, and then again after the credits?
 
While watching Three's Company marathon the other night on Nick at Nite, I noticed alot of the episodes were edited...and there were more commercials. :mad:
 
Braves2005 said:
Although this has nothing to do with TV Land,on the I network I watched Green Acres the other day and they speeded up the opening credits where Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor sang and it sounded like a fast march and then the closing credits was speeded up as well. Not every episode so far is like that,only 2.
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Yes! Since Green Acres went to The Hallmark Channel the episodes sound like a 33 1/3 LP
being played at 45 RPM. Just awful!
 
I don't get TV Land but I can tell you the "Green Acres," that airs everyday on the "I" network, the prints of that show are very bad compared to the ones that run on WWME-CA Channel 23 Chicago
 
My answer is "Screw TV Land, et. al.". I buy the series I want to watch on dvd. That includes most, but certainly not all of what I want to see. I will NOT watch TV Land because of what everyone has mentioned.
 
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