[Jon]

Every year, the contest has padding for countries that do not air commercial breaks. Not new this.

Yeah I know it does, but given the BBC are the host broadcaster it made me wonder if they would be doing the whole thing without an ad break for the international channels that are taking the coverage.

Why would they do that? Countries which take ad breaks themselves don’t give countries that don’t 2 minutes of a blank screen when they host.

The international broadcasters requirements don’t change just because of who the host broadcaster is. I’d also argue it’s good for UK viewers that the singing part of broken up a bit.