>Commercial comes on >immediately cuts to a different commercial

it always happens with those addiction center commercials

>>84864537
When I was younger I always thought there was some type of command center for television with all the employees behind each commercial all fighting it out over who gets their commercial aired by pressing these giant buttons before anyone else, and if one was ever cut then that means someone bypassed the protocol.

>>84864537
They only paid for two seconds of advertisements

>>84864928
I've never seen a correlation when it happens, except perhaps that the commercials that get blocked are lower quality, like a local pawn shop commercial.

Are there people at the station literally monitoring time-slot bids and we're seeing the mistakes?

>>84865005

wat

>>84865420
Well if the system is automated how does it fuck up so frequently?

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>>84865005
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this

they probably have a b roll for commercials under contracts and slots for primetime and the prime override the others.

I always assumed it was the local station overriding the network feed with their local spots and doing a shit job in the control room.

Simulcast rules, your region gets to show its own commercials over what the network is actually showing.

>>84868408
Shit, well that makes a lot of sense.
However sometimes it's not local stuff.

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>get a receiver with DVR when renewing my cable contract
>record whatever is remotely interesting (aka not much)
>fast forward all commercials
You ain't jewing me Herschel Kommerzielsteinblatz.


Thankfucking God football games don't have commercials save for the 15 minutes break between halves.
How do Americans cope with this shit?