Writing 04

Should Television Become “Commercial Free”?

Yuma Nishimoto

Recently, TV commercials have become more variously. Each company uses popular TV stars or songs and makes impressive commercials to sell as many of their products as possible. Today, most TV stations broadcast commercials, so people can watch them almost every day and are greatly influenced by them. If there were no commercials on TV, what would happen to them? Television should not become “commercial free”.
Actually, some people think that television should become “commercial free”. The IT media news says that about 23 percent of the HDD recorder users skip all the commercials when they watch recordings and the majority skip more than 80 percent of the commercials. Only 23 percent of them don’t skip any commercials. People might enjoy watching television more and more if TV commercials are abolished.
Furthermore, people could concentrate on the program to the end. TV commercials sometimes make them feel bored and irritated. When TV commercials are too long, they may get sleepy even if they wanted to watch the next program. When a TV drama reaches its climax and they are enthusiastic about it, suddenly, the story is suspended and TV commercials start. Then, they want to watch the continuation soon and can’t help feeling irritated.
However, TV commercials are playing some important parts in television. The most important thing is that if people could not watch TV commercials, they could get little information about new products. Today, most of the information they get is by television because the people who read newspapers or listen to the radio have been decreasing. According to Wikipedia, TV commercials have produced many vogue words every year. For example, “Jikochu”, “Nensho-kei”, and “Yosou GUY”.
While TV commercials are broadcast, people can take a rest. They can do anything they want to do until the continuation of the program starts if they don’t want to watch commercials. They can go to the washroom, take snacks or drinks, and so on. If they continue watching television for a long time without taking a rest, not only their eyes but also their brains would be tired. Their eyesight easily fails and a headache may happen. They need to take a rest when they watch television.
TV commercials are sometimes nuisances for some people, but they can also enjoy watching them. They can not only make trends, but also become the center of their topics. Moreover, they can relax between programs by them. These days, there is no denying the fact that TV commercials are very important for their lives.

Works Cited:
IT media news “HDDレコーダーによるCMスキップで損失540億円” 31 Mar. 2005

Wikipedia “commercial message” 5 Nov. 2008