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Agree, subscribed for the playoffs, first time watching since 2004. Quite shocked to be paying $26 a month to watch one Keanu Reeves commercial five hundred times and thousands of online gambling adds. My kids have grown up add free until now at least.

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I do recall advertisements being repeated ad nauseum up until I was a college student (after which I stopped watching TV for the most part). I don't know if it is something about the Canadian media landscape or what.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWleK1dvRF0

This specific advertisement used to play over TSN 10-12 times per hour, to the point where it became a pre-internet video meme for me and my friends.

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