Comments on: TBS’ Walk-On Ads Annoy

By: Letterboxed Messages Help Elude Commercial Zappers

Letterboxed Messages Help Elude Commercial Zappers — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:01:39 +0000

[...] about last year when TBS made a snarky attempt at getting viewers to watch promo spots by having someone walk on-screen during a show and “pause” it while he gave his pitch. This was irritating to many [...]

By: Family Guy Shirts, Clothes, DVDs

Family Guy Shirts, Clothes, DVDs — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:16:51 +0000

Yeah its pretty low when they pause TV shows in order to show small ads for other shows. Its bad enough when they run lower thirds for other shows etc., but this is going too far.

By: dj_doughy

dj_doughy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:44:36 +0000

i like how they pause it at the punchline, then go to a commercial after its paused. do a brought to you by message, and then the advertisement for the product that brought you the programming, and then an ad for the shitty show that paused the show to tell you bout the shitty show.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:20:57 +0000

Seriously, this is the most f*ed up thing I have come across on any TV station before. I'm at the point I would love to pay extra for clean TV programming, like XM radio, next to no commercials, where is the TV programming that has no lame ass commercials and pausing of shows?

By: Jeff Marks

Jeff Marks — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:36:15 +0000

Showtime has been doing this also. To promote the upcoming season of WEEDS.

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Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:30:44 +0000

[...] has begun pausing shows mid-scene to display ads for other TBS programs.The ad in question features comedian Bill Engvall walking on screen, pausing [...]

By: Glenn Rubenstein

Glenn Rubenstein — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:54:06 +0000

I really, really, really found these ads annoying when I was watching the Family Guy the other night. I suppose the good thing for DVR owners is that they occur right before the last line of the scene before it goes to commercial, but watching the show live, I could not help but feel unfairly punished since I sat through every commercial break in real-time.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:49:53 +0000

I would rather this for a short ad on something like Joost or HULU or ABCs player than switch to the Ad ect.

I think its annoying if its promoting another show but to advertise a targeted product or service for less than 15 seconds it might be appropriate.TBS and others seem to be testing the Waters with their own shows first before they sell ad spots to advertisers.

As for persistent overlays and ad overlays I find them less annoying than actual Ad breaks

By: DN

DN — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:11:35 +0000

The ad goes further by being posted here.

It worked well.