re: #4 Killgore Trout

Do they have shorter commercial breaks on his show now? I assume they still have the same amount of commercials and just put other companies in the vacant slots. Anyone know how it works?

I would wager they are discounting GB time slot ads heavily rather than reducing amount of ads, or it could be both.

The other thing you have to wonder is this same thing true across all shows / all broadcasters for the same period? (e.g. is it just the economic trend?)