Categories: WTF

TBS Is Speeding Up Seinfeld Reruns To Make Room For More Commercials

TV stations will do incredible things to fit more ads in to their programming. It was bad enough when they started airing the next show in a smaller box while the previous show’s credits would run. And let’s not forget the ads that have become commonplace on the bottoms of our screens. I swear, those things take up almost 25% of the viewing area sometimes. Now, one Redditor has found proof of a network sinking to a new low. TBS is actually speeding up their Seinfeld reruns by 7.5% to make room for more commercials. The Redditor even posted a side by side video to show what they are doing. I’m not sure if this makes TBS evil bastards or evil geniuses… probably a little of both.

Upper-right is a live feed from my tuner card from tonight’s Seinfeld rerun. Lower-right is a digital recording from Fox Chicago about 10 years ago on the same hardware. TBS’s broadcast gained 15 seconds in 3:22. This amounts to almost 2 full minutes for the entire episode.

SOurce: Reddit
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