The engineers soon did away with that problem, as they devsied automatic circuits to self-level volume, contrast, color, and other variables. And the pattewrn has been repeated in more recent years with VCRs and personal computers. It will no doubt eventually simplify use of the Internet for the lay person. The respondent will accept the commercials as the price for getting the goodies. In TV and radio, commercials are the price of entertainment, news, and other entertainment.
Good programs attract viewers and listeners so that the commercials reach enough people.
Bad programs do not. The advertising specialists of Madison Avenue will probably never create the content that will attract prospects. It requires a different kind of creative person to do that. Perhaps it is synbiotic, but whatever it is, we shall eventually find or create the relationship and systems to do so. I see here much too much focus on the problem and not nearly enough on the solution.