wow, does US television have a lot of ad breaks
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@woozle someone linked a 90s-styled website that provides a synchronized schedule of programming mostly derived from VCR rips of actual TV broadcasts (https://spelunkr.tv/), and of course those rips also include whichever commercials were on air at that time
one thing that also surprised me is how these commercians are allowed to just call out competing products by name -- over here, you would hear ads talk about how their brand of detergent is superior to the "regular" detergent or is labeled #1 by some organization, but it would never outright mention competitors by name -- in fact, when someone did register a "regular" brand detergent, those commercials also had to change
@rnd This is but one of many reasons we completely stopped watching it about 20 years ago (except when trapped in a waiting room, where it is often unavoidable).
Apparently it has gotten worse since then.
(added) One might say US TV is ad-broken.