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Not being assaulted by ads 24/7 was definitely one of the best aspects of growing up in the Soviet Union
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In Poland average commercial break take around 10-15 minutes. It is so bad that even our shitty bootlicking government felt the need to regulate that, but of course they fucked up and it changed nothing. There are more commercial time in TV than the non-commercial time, and the public TV is not much better than the private one despite hevy subsidies and mandatory subsription from every home (27,50 PLN monthly as of now).
pretty sure theres EU regulation that should limit the ads to a certain percentage of the show. Except in cases the show is a comercial itself.
So is Poland not following EU regulations?
I guess they found a loophole. I noticed they very much like to put a commercials right before the show ends, and after it ends they put another one. There's also tons of previews of their own shows (i guess that don't count as commercials) weidly sandwitched between commercial blocks - and that could alternate for a long time. Maybe something like that.
I remember debacle about the volume of the commercials, stations tend to put them up much louder than shows, so people were getting blasted with decibels out of nowhere, this was forbidden too, so they also circumvented that by some kind of sound frequency trick so the commercials are still perceptively louder than shows.
Or maybe they just are ignoring it altogether, polish television regulating organ is very slow and blind unless international scandal blows in their faces.
the loudness thing is indeed a trick to boost perception without breaking rules on peak amplitude.
On the length thing, is weird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_advertisements_by_country#Europe
https://web.archive.org/web/20080609032858/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/037-12884-316-11-46-906-20071112IPR12883-12-11-2007-2007-false/default_nl.htm
EU regulations are not waterproof and the European countries tend to do a lot of “looks good on paper” type of laws, where they wax about equity and welfare. But in the end its just a prettier package for an ugly system.
Sounds like NPR (National Public Radio) here in the states. They're not allowed to run ads, so instead they basically have infomercials about the all the wonderful philanthropic things their sponsors do, since in American even publically-owned media outlets still somehow have big coporate backers. Which somehow manages to be the the least obnoxious part of their programming, since at least it provides a break from the continual libbery, shitting on the working class, and unabashed pro-Israel propaganda.