I can hardly watch Chris Hayes

[Marthe48]

I actually timed segments and I am going to time more-but just now, about 1 minute of content and over 3 minutes of ads? Or he'll say a sentence or 2 and break for ads, come back, say another sentence or 2, and break again. I just can't stand the short comments and the long runs of ads.

I imagine Breitbart would love the sponsors.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It really is ad-heavy, which is annoying.

When they go to ads I sometimes switch to CNN, but they're about as bad and often have their ads on at the same time.

[Marthe48]

3. I'm wearing out the mute/pause buttons

Aside from lots of ads, they all seem to be for medical conditions, elder care and other things I don't want to see.

[FakeNoose]

10. That's NBC for ya

I watch NBC News (regular network news) and it seems all their ads are big pharma and auto ads. Very skewed towards 65+ age-group.

NBC must have good people in the sales dept. (I would guess) but it's the demographics of the news watching audience.
Kind of makes you wonder.

[Control-Z]

2. Rachel does it too

at the half hour mark, I believe. I think it's the way they try to break up a 10 minute ad segment with the hopes that we won't notice the time factor. (Is there a pulling-hair-out smilie?)

[Marthe48]

4. Most of the shows I watch

have long breaks at 15 and 45 and a really long one at 30. The breaks on Chris Hayes are really annoying, because his content in between the runs of ads is so short. Its getting to be like watching the weather channel.

[Jim__]

5. Many MSNBC shows open with a long (15 mins or more) uninterrupted segment -

then the rest of the show is a barrage of commercials. I usually watch the opening segment, then shut it off.

[Marthe48]

6. I get off MSNBC

when I'm getting overwhelmed. I actually try to limit my news by watching part of Rachel, part of Lawrence, then watching something else.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. I'm more bothered by the videos of 45.

I can't stand to hear the man's lying voice. I mute the TV as soon as his face appears.

[Marthe48]

8. me too!

I'm resigned to the reality that 95% of the coverage is about trump, and the news shows I watch spend too much of their air time running clips of diaper.

I'd like to see more news about the underhanded, unconstitutional runarounds happening in both houses of Congress, and analysis about how much of it is going to be overturned when normal politicians get elected.

[Fla Dem]

9. It's easier to watch when you have a cable service that allows you to rewind.

I keep my TV set to the MSNBC channel, so when I actually want to watch something on MSNBC I can rewind to the beginning of the show. So let's say I want to watch Rachael. I probably will turn on the TV at 9:20, rewind to beginning of the show, then I can fast forward through the ads. By the time the show ends at 10:00 I probably have about 10 minutes of the show left to watch.

I watch almost nothing in real time. I record shows I'm interested in and watch them at my convenience. Also allows me to FF thru the ads.

[Marthe48]

12. I do that sort of

I will try it your way, thanks!

[moonscape]

11. Am so disconnected from ads - have had Tivos for almost 15 years, and

even if I watch something live (rare to never). I will pause it so I can ff a bit later in order to skip them.

[UTUSN]

13. I don't watch him at all, not for ad reasons. I don't care about "our side" - just effectiveness.

Don't like his personality, don't care if he's on our side.

[WinkyDink]

14. I watch him for his dreamy eyes. And I mean that.