The original fades longer than the repeat airing by 6 frames and the five second bumper was removed from the end of the segment, giving the removed time to the segment or commercial time. The time values given in the Description comments are the time values of the missing segments, relative to the start of that segment. It is unknown where the cuts are in these two new episodes, as they aired for the first time. It is possible that the hacking started with the movie version of Dark Frontier . With an opening and closing credits sequence missing, it is unknown if other parts of the episode were also cut.
Networks normally guarantee a minimum rating for the show the commercial is show in.
If the show doesn't make that rating, the network has to show the commercial a certain number of times, for free. Well, you can't do that in the normally scheduled slots, as it would mean no income at all. Exactly, they cut program length to make room for the spots they have to run for free. We the viewers have to suffer because of their mistakes. Stay tuned for further details.