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‘SNL’ To Cut Ads By 30% Next Season

NBC's Saturday Night Live is paring down its commercial load, with plans to cut about 30% of ads out of the sketch comedy show next season. It will do this by removing two commercial breaks per episode, giving viewers more content.

By http://adage.com/article/media/snl-air-fewer-commercials-season/303697/ | April 25, 2016 | 2:27 p.m. ET.
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alicia farmer says:

April 25, 2016 at 2:59 pm

Kudos to SNL. The rest of the industry needs to do this quickly. Demo viewers are hemorrhaging.

Albert Pica says:

April 25, 2016 at 3:34 pm

Huge. So now no reason to cut the sketches from rehearsal?

Rachel Martin says:

April 25, 2016 at 3:46 pm

Network or Local? Hmmmm…