They just recently up-ed the amount of advertising per hour.
Programs used to have about 42 minutes of content per hour. Several months ago, that was changed to about 39 minutes of content per hour.
[Check some of those old TV programs from the 70s on Hulu — they run about 48 minutes of content per hour.]
Less content = more advertising.
They still don’t understand that viewers consider content over advertising.
Re: 41 minute shows - the ad model is more inventory to counter the lower ratings and per spot rates.
Protecting margins with diminishing audiences.
...and they run the same commercial over and over again, like we are to become mind numbed robots.