Why is the cable viewing experience so bad these days? (increased ads, sped up shows.)

[vchimpanzee]

I've noticed that TV Land hasn't been as bad recently about adding in more ad time to make episodes run 35 minutes (Mainly with MASH and Andy Griffith, not sure about other shows), but I know they're probably running episodes edited for time or sped up. I can definitely tell it with MASH, which appears to be more unedited episodes on Me TV. What irritates me more on TV Land now is that they're only running Seinfeld in the very early morning.

Andy Griffith has the "epilogue" only in its "home" market of Greensboro NC. Where it was on at 5:30 weekdays for decades before someone realized they could add more news.

 

[ixnay]

Andy Griffith has the "epilogue" only in its "home" market of Greensboro NC. Where it was on at 5:30 weekdays for decades before someone realized they could add more news.

I guess Mayberry is in that part of NC, no? Griffith was from Mt. Airy which IIRC is in that part of the Tarheel State.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I guess Mayberry is in that part of NC, no? Griffith was from Mt. Airy which IIRC is in that part of the Tarheel State.

The town it was based on was. Pilot Mountain is a smaller town, though, not a big city like Mt. Pilot was in the show.

 

[Kelly A]

It was shot at the Desilu Studios and interior shots filmed at "Forty Acres"in Culver City CA. 'Woodsy' scenes were shot in Franklin Canyon outside of Beverly Hills.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Curious (I don't watch TV Land) how does that affect their programming schedule if their shows run 35 minutes, instead of a nice, neat 30 minute block so 2 episodes = exactly 1 hour? Does this mean that each episode throughout the day progressively starts 35 minutes later than the one previous - so Episode 1 starts at :00, 2 starts at :35, 3 starts at :10, 4 starts at :45, etc?

I've noticed that they're doing it again during MASH and into the Westerns.