I can't find any mention of whether advertisements will be shown to paying customers. The "no-pay-but-view-ads" vs. "pay-with-no-ads" model has been a mainstay

I can't find any mention of whether advertisements will be shown to paying customers. The "no-pay-but-view-ads" vs. "pay-with-no-ads" model has been a mainstay of most freemium websites, but NYTimes looks like it's going to keep ads no matter if you pay or not. At $3.75 to $8.75 per week, I'd expect ads to be gone. Not that they need to be. It's just what I've come to expect. The news publication industry is changing (along with the rest of the publication industry). I like the direction NYTimes is going in -- "For quality content, you should expect to pay real money" -- but the model has so much bad baggage attached to it that it seems doomed to failure, with The Times (London) being the most recent NYTimes-scale example.