I've been happily using Channels as my default way to watch CNN through TVE because they only showed a static image with no sound during the commercial breaks. A while ago they started advertising their own subscription service in that static image, and now I'm getting a full commercial feed with audio. Boo! Anyone else notice this over the past several days?
Hmm, It always surprised me that CNN wasn't monetizing those breaks with commercials, and figured it was only a matter of time until they shifted gears in some other direction. That being said, just as a data point, I checked my CNN TVE stream (channel 6030) just now, and am still getting this silent, static image during commercial breaks. I'm on the west coast, if that matters:
I also remember CNNgo before this one, and my love/hate relationship with it, lol.
Weird, yeah, that's the one. I'm in San Diego and using channel 6030, so now I'm curious. I wonder if they haven't completely filled out the commercial blocks with ones they can show on the web, but what I was seeing this morning via TVE was identical to what was showing as "Live" on the CNN website, including the same commercials in sync. So...many...drug...commercials...
It is what is really. Just record whatever you want to watch and skip by them
For everything but live news and live sports, I completely agree 
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I agree. And as much as I despise advertisements, I would actually rather have commercials than silence. I tend to have news on in the background as I am doing other things. The silence during the breaks defeats the purpose of having background sound.
It was back to the static frame and no audio yesterday and again this morning, so my guess is that somebody screwed up and it's now "fixed." I thought the same as @_Mike about the lack of background audio being worse, but I've gotten used to it. The repetitive nature of commercials (literally, 90% drugs and Medicare supplement plans) had become actively annoying for me, rather than just passive noise.
I actually started using the CNN stream I configured via ADBtuner, connected to my Fubo subscription instead, for when background noise is the priority. That stream has commercials, so audio plays uninterrupted. In that specific contect, I can live with the repetitive ads. What I couldn't live with, were the moments when I was in another room or not looking at the screen and noticing the silence, then wondering, in that moment if something had stopped working, that I needed to go fix.
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I'll admit that I've had the same concern
Hey, it's been too quiet for too long!