Drug commercials

I watched one hour of news tonight. First ABC's World News, then NBC's Nightly News. Here's the commercial breakdown:

ABC commercial break 1 Transitions glasses Aleve mytimetoquit.com The oil and natural gas industry Dulcolax ABC commercial break 2 Aveeno skin cream Levitra T. Boone Pickens' energy plan Rogaine World News [World News had a story about a new prostate cancer drug at this point.] ABC commercial break 3 Class action lawsuit settlement about dangerous insulation Purina cat chow Edward Jones investments Clairol hair products Centrum Cardio Hopkins (the ABC miniseries) Good Morning America

NBC commercial break 1 Pepcid AC Spiriva The oil and natural gas industry NBC commercial break 2 Breathe Right strips (a Brand Power spot) Smucker's Aveeno skin cream Lincoln's MK series of vehicles Glucerna Gas-X Today Show Nightly News DTVanswers.com NBC commercial break 3 Lyrica Visine advanced relief Levitra Rogaine MSNBC's 2008 election coverage

Quick numbers: There were 17 commercials in each half hour show. ABC was fairly balanced (5-5-7) and NBC was not (3-9-5). Four commercials that appeared during ABC's news also appeared during NBC's. Most interesting, eleven out of the ABC commercials had something to do with health (counting borderline cases like skin care products). Ten of the NBC commercials did.