As a specialist in slicing and dicing content schedules for the sake of automatically correcting TV program guides, one has often wondered why Media Distillery has not been more active in the advertising space, given the Dutch vendor’s regular work with SCTE 35 ad markers. In fairness to Media Distillery, it has been about two years since the vendor started proving its worth in delivering more than just automatic adjusting of TV start-times, but to open up new monetization opportunities by inserting pre-roll ads into the TV replay environment. But with the onward march of free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) services, the time is now to get serious about ads. Media Distillery has bulked up its advertising arsenal with the…