GOOAAALLL!!!!

Spanish TV is weird. Shows don't necessarily start or end on the hour or the half hour--this news show I like starts at 9:40, and morning cartoons (much easier to understand than adult shows) start at really arbitrary times (I guess on the hour/half hour is also arbitrary, but it's what I'm used to). Commercial breaks are of very varying lengths. Sometimes they'll show one commercial and then go back to regular programming; other times they'll show commercials for ten minutes straight. And they'll often show the same commercial twice during the long sets. Seems like an odd use of advertising dollars. Also, a lot of the commercials have music with English lyrics. I could sorta see if they were popular songs that most people would recognize, but often they're not. Not that many people here speak English--wouldn't they better reach whoever their target audience is in Spanish? The ad for processed cookies with a cheesy English-language jingle can't really be aimed at English speakers, can it? The female newscasters show a lot of cleavage. And the dubbing just freaks me out. I do like the fúbol announcers, though.