At my work we got some special hook-up for Peacock through a promotion company. It's just a device that plugs into our general A/V system. I was trying to have the Purdue game up on our main screen (for selfish reasons, customers be damned), but the first few minutes it was freezing every 3 or 4 plays, so I had to bail on it and switched the projector to Alabama. I'd say the last 3 quarters weren't too bad though.
I think it appears worse because they weren't actually commercials. Just a screen saying programming will return soon. I'm guessing it wasn't any longer in real time.