This is SO fascinating. Being a Brit, I’ve always just had the BBC. I’d be fuming watching all these ads. Plus Rai who missed half of serbias votes!

RAI where are your manners

As a viewer in Australia who can't stand the ads and the "commentary", I find that the best way to watch is to use a VPN and watch on the official KZfaq stream. No ads, no interruptions!

All this time I assumed Moroccanoil was a state petroleum company.

Thank god France Télévisions is not allowed by law to have any ad-breaks after 8

I'm happy that the Swedish broadcaster SVT don't have ads and I know it's an ad break because the commentator says it everytime.

It baffles me that there are ad breaks during eurovison on some public funded stations. A friend who watched in Austria actually missed an a whole interval act and the end of the voting period despite they were partaking in the vote for that semi! What the heck is that?

Ill be honest RAI's bad timing isnt surprising given how much of a mess they made as host broadcaster last year.

Poor Italian speaking Swiss, they watched news and ads while everyone was watching "The Liverpool Songbook"

how are broadcasters allowed to air adverts during

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I refuse to believe that Rai's commercials during the jury votes weren't a mistake.

Here's my possible explanation for Rai's delay during Iceland's jury moment: Rai usually doesn't show the mid-jury top 3 green room interviews, unless the Italian act is expected in advance to be in that top 3. Moreover, advertisment sequences and schedules for events with a large audience have to be prepared well in advance, since demand for ad slots is high and the prices are higher, and if Rai doesn't do them exactly as planned it'll get sued: this is even at the expense of not showing important parts of an event, for example we used to have "mini-spots" before every corner kick in World Cup soccer matches. This is disgraceful but it's the only viable business plan to not succumb under Mediaset's claws.

Another Eurovision video, love it! Very interesting to see

I watched Eurovision in the Netherlands (NOS/AVROTROS/NPO1) this year and the ads were shown only before and after the show itself. The Dutch law says that the public TV stations are allowed to have ad breaks only in between programs.

This reminds me of watching F1 on TSN in Canada. They use the Sky Sports feed and insert commercial breaks at their own whim during the race, split screen with the live action. Max and Lewis' crash at Monza in 2021 was on a tiny picture-in-picture video during an Expedia ad.

Thankfully the Polish law forces the polish public broadcaster to not insert any ad breaks inside the show and thankfully TVP didn’t get to do it’s common practice to avoid that law (they were splitting one show into ‘parts’ on the schedule so the ad break was technically between two scheduled programmes)

Our country's broadcaster, TVP, due to no-ad-break-within-programme law, aired the Eurovision, like BBC did (with scene remembering the win of Ukraine in 2022). I remember, when they tried to make an exception in 2020 during "Europe Shine a Light", when they regularly aired a LIDL ad during short ad breaks (unlike possibly some of others, which broadcasted a promo of it's programmes (an interior, channel's programming, ad), but I don't know, which ones).

I'm really enjoying your Eurovision content.

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