Ads Quote by Derek Waters

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the…

— Alan Ball

Mostly, people watch their shows online and they watch them in a block. They don't have to tolerate the commercials, and they also don't…

— Tim Roth

Now we live in this DVD, iTunes, Hulu age, and show creators and networks are realizing that and letting shows develop on those terms…

— Patton Oswalt

The program is only the excuse to get you to watch the advertising. Without the ads there would be no programs. Advertising is the…

— Jerry Mander

It's just unfortunate that a network only makes their profit off of live viewership because their hands are tied by advertisers. They may believe…

— Madchen Amick

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.

— Tom Shales

I think the networks, in general, have to evaluate what's happening around them. I'm sure they're scared about a lot of things: Amazon, Netflix,…

— Jim Rash

People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.

— Adrian Pasdar

I think, by this point, almost everything on YouTube has some ad or another.

— Tim Wu

People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.

— Madchen Amick

I think it works if there's something online that is not in the show, or in a newspaper, if there's some added value to…

— Edward Allen Bernero

Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and…

— J. J. Abrams