Just to prove my point about the KGW 11 o'clock news, I used a stopwatch to time the news-to-commercial ratio. It wasn't as bad as I thought: 22:20 of news to 12:40 of commercials. One third of the newscast is commercial advertisements.

The interesting thing, to me, is the way they have it laid out. The first 15 minutes has only one interruption. That means the last 20 minutes, which has weather, sports, and fluff, is more than 50% ads.

I'm going to start shutting it off at 11:20. I don't need to be pummeled with car ads.