Cable started in the 1950s, just so you know about pre-dating cable TV. And for the first 30 years there were no cable-only stations. So you'd then know, there

Cable started in the 1950s, just so you know about pre-dating cable TV. And for the first 30 years there were no cable-only stations. So you'd then know, there were ads on cable from the start, so I don't get why you have this "we were told there would be no ads", since you saw for thirty years there were ads on it.