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Commercial Breaks
A break is a run of advertisements with no programming between them, built from the airings themselves rather than from black frames — so it works on the seven channels that cut straight from one spot into the next.
Hatched blocks are advertising that ran and is not in the registry — the break is drawn across its whole span, so the holes are visible rather than implied. Across the breaks we can check against black-frame detection we account for about four spots in five. Which brands shared a break is reliable; “third of eight” is not.