Abstract: Television equipment detects viewers' actions in skipping temporally interleaved television advertising content and, in response, automatically causes selected television advertising content to be spatially combined with a temporal portion of the viewed television programming content, e.g., juxtaposed adjacent to or overlaid on the television advertising content. As a result of the spatial combination, skipping such juxtaposed or overlaid advertising content would also cause skipping of the corresponding temporal portion of the viewed programming content. In some implementations, once viewer ad skipping is detected, advertising content can spatially combined with subsequently viewed television programs of the same type, or interleaved advertising content can be automatically removed from the remainder of the television program or from subsequently viewed television programs of the same type.