Are TV stations manned?

[crt89]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

Most of the time, the stations will run one commercial twice within a 30-second period. I don't know why they do that, unless they want to be absolutely certain the commercial will be seen and heard. However, I can't help wondering why, if they do this with the first commercial in a series, they don't show every commercial at least twice, if the intent is to be positive the things are actually being seen and heard and not being ignored.

I have noticed this, but it most often seems to happen if I remember correctly during the evening news commercials.

Another thing I have noticed in general is that a commercial will start and maybe get one word in, and then it is interrupted by another commercial. I'm not sure if that has to do with local vs network programming or not.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by crt89

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Another thing I have noticed in general is that a commercial will start and maybe get one word in, and then it is interrupted by another commercial. I'm not sure if that has to do with local vs network programming or not.

Yes, it's the local (or cable system) insert not being timed exactly right.