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About Stan Bartkus
Expertise
History of TV as it developed from Network Radio to the present. Started doing Radio & TV in 1976, with "Happy Birthday America, 200". With a total of 30 years experience as a Communications Technician.

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Past/Present clients..All the Stations listed along the left side column of any TV Guide, makes a good customer/client list.

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Topic: TV Schedules

Expert: Stan Bartkus
Date: 5/7/2006
Subject: News Commercials?

Question
Hi Stan,

I have a dumb question. When I browse through the stations, I've noticed many of the news stations (CNN, MSNBC, FOX) all seem to take commercial breaks at the same time-or, at least, within a few seconds of each other. Is this by design so people can't browse to another station? And do stations other then news do this in general, in your opinion? Thanks.

Answer
"do stations other then news do this in general, in your opinion?"

Yes. The reason is "a media buy", for a particular timeslot.

I was working in a room with 14 TV screens and could often see the same commercial on alot of them at the same time, even though the screens were monitoring different channels.

Best regards,
Stan

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