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Scheduling & release models · Specialist

Commercial break

Also called: ad break

ELI5

A scheduled interruption in programming for advertising.

Used in conversation

“Can we make the commercial break clearer in the season overview?”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Commercial break” in scripted television conversations or materials.

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.