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What are you talking about? cable TV has always had ads in the very beginning in the 1950s and 60s on through the 1970s when the first cable TV stations came ou
by zokula 8y ago
What are you talking about? cable TV has always had ads in the very beginning in the 1950s and 60s on through the 1970s when the first cable TV stations came out.
- dhimes 8y agoNow when I hit "guide" I get a modal popup serving me an ad, that I then have to exit. Soon it will be two, then three, then.... The same thing happened to "previews" when you go to the movies.
- autoexec 8y agoNope. local channels continued to have ads but cable did not. Cable TV was advertised as being ad free because you were paying for it. It was part of the sales pitch. My household was a subscriber in those early days and I remember the concern that ads were coming. I remember that they started by putting the ads between shows and only advertising upcoming shows on that channel. Then it moved to general ads about shows on that channel, then to ads about shows on other channels. At that point I knew the cause was lost and sure enough soon it was normal TV ads interrupting shows. Here is a newspaper article from around that time asking how much longer cable TV will be ad free https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-invaded-by-commercials.html https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...