ContributionsMost RecentMost LikesSolutionsRe: It seems that there are more instances of commercials being cut off after a couple of seconds and replaced by another commercial. OK, thank you for your response. It seems that there are more instances of commercials being cut off after a couple of seconds and replaced by another commercial. 1) Is it becoming more common for commercials to be cut off after a couple of seconds and 'replaced' by another one? 2) Is there a rational, evidence-backed reason for this practice? What are the facts regarding Cox possibly dropping some CBS local stations? Our local CBS station (WPRI, Providence, Rhode Island) has been running a 'thread' at the bottom of the screen during news programs, warning that Cox may be dropping the station as of January 1. Does anyone know what is the actual, non-hyped situation regarding Cox dropping CBS or its local stations? Personally, I think it would be a big mistake to drop any of the 'big three' networks or the major cable channels. Phishing phone call I just received a call from a blocked ("private") phone number on my cell phone, claiming to be from Cox and stating that my email account had been hacked. When the caller (with a heavy South Asian accent) started to instruct me to log into my email account while on the phone so he could 'instruct' me how to find the hacker's identity, I hung up. To my surprise, I received two more calls from "private" within a few minutes after I had hung up. I declined to answer the first one, but answered the second. The same man asked "what happened" and I answered "I hung up - and I'm doing it again now" and then I hung up. No further calls. I find it hard to accept that Cox would contact me about a security issue on my cell phone with a blocked number for the caller ID. Has anyone else run into this apparent scam recently? Problems with TNT So far for the past week or so, TNT HD (channel 1027) has gotten 'scrambled' and gone effectively off-air at about 3:52 pm EST (within a minute more or less) every day. It happened again today. We changed channels, waited about 5 minutes before checking, and TNT was back. Just seems odd that it happens the same time each day. Is anyone else experiencing this problem, or is it just us?