Only broadcast TV I watch lately is the news: morning news while having breakfast, and evening news while cooking/eating dinner. Same ads every day during each show. It's especially ridiculous during the evening news: the ads are either drug ads or luxury car ads, endless strings of them. Obviously their target audience are all senior citizens.
Don't know if it's just my anti-consumer mindset that questions everything, but the advertisers are actively turning me off. The drug side effects (including possible death!) are worse than the conditions they treat. The absurdly entitled spokesperson for the cars makes me want to gouge his eyes out, not emulate him!
Oh, just remembered - DS5 has been watching the retro OTA channels, and those ads are all lawyer ads (HAVE YOU OR A LOVED ONE BEEN INJURED OR KILLED BY xyz DRUG?), credit repair, structured settlement buyouts, funeral expense insurance (because a spouse dying always has debt and no savings), reverse mortgages, etc. Obviously their target audience is unemployed and dead broke ('cause they are home watching TV during the day and can't even afford cable, duh). I constantly find myself talking back to the idiots in those ads. Grr