This is why I dumped cable in 2008.<p>&quot;Hour long&quot; American TV shows are some of the shortest in the world, and are filled with redundancy as viewers &quot;forget&quot; where they are in the show after a stack of ads every 6-8 minutes. This degrades the quality of the programming to the point it is not worth watching.<p>PBS programs are 50+ minutes long, and BBC are 58-59 minutes long. The local PBS station has been showing short
ads in the last 10 minute segment of the hour. That&#x27;s acceptable and much better than interrupting the programming.<p>In the future Broadcasters will not need transmitters, and Cable TV won&#x27;t exist. All programming will be delivered over the Internet. Instead of tuning to channel 10 on your TV, your TV connects to the channel 10 website and you can choose what you want to watch. If you pay extra, you can see shows without ads.