As awful and prevalent as TV commercials have become the only thing I can think of with more commercials in between content are YouTube left on in the background and radio.
With YouTube some body decided during the pandemic to cram commercials in the middle of videos now, so music sets are ruined and all comedic timing as well. Anything I plan to watch more than once I use ytdlp because of the huge number of ads they've started cramming in to the start middle and end.
In the car the radio is only bearable if you have atleast three stations in your area that play genres that are enjoyable or you get lucky and you happen to be in the car when a live DJ is on, usually at some point during the rush hour commute or a weekend night.
Yes. Background noise is the radio's job. Why waste energy keeping a panel on if nobody's gonna look at it?