I'm intrigued. Here in Canada, after every skate, there tends to be a commercial break. Program-skaters leaving the ice-commercial break-return with some short replays-score-next skater.
Is that not the sequence you're used to? Or are they showing commercials in the middle of the actual skate?
The sequence we're used to in Europe is commercials during warm-ups only or even better, during zamboni breaks only.