Disney’s ABC Says DVR Users See Similar Number of Ads
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Walt Disney Co.’s ABC said people watching television shows on video recorders sit through a similar number of commercials as those watching live.
“Not as many people fast forward through the ads,” Paul Lee, president of ABC Entertainment, said today at a conference for TV critics in Pasadena, California. “And people who watch live get up to make a cup of coffee and miss some.”