Eli5: TV commercials cut out after 1 second and play another?

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Is it a problem in the control room of the TV station? Is it overbooking of commercial spots? Why do I sometimes see a commercial play for about 1 second, and then it cuts out and another compliantly different commercial plays instead?

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There are several ad sources: local, national and sometimes some kind of overide. Normally in a national TV show there is a lot of computer coordination for what is shown when – the show, an ad, station identification, etc. so the computer send control codes to signal what should be playing when. And sometimes this screws up and couple seconds later it gets corrected.

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