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Fun fact: Cable itself was originally the ad-free "premium" version of over-the-air television! And it eventually added some ads and then more ads and now we're

Fun fact: Cable itself was originally the ad-free "premium" version of over-the-air television! And it eventually added some ads and then more ads and now we're at present day, where you get roughly 8 minutes of ads per 22 minutes of content. I noticed visiting a hotel recently (like fuck I pay for cable!) that their cable service had sped up the intro of Law and Order SVU, presumably to make room for more advertisements.

shiroiushi 2y ago
>I noticed visiting a hotel recently (like fuck I pay for cable!) that their cable service had sped up the intro of Law and Order SVU, presumably to make room for more advertisements. That's pretty smart of them! It makes sense to try to increase the time for ads, and decrease the time for the TV show; maybe next they can just cut the credits, or cut out parts of each act in the show. There's no reason not to. After all, the only people still paying for cable TV subscriptions are elderly people who absolutely refuse to give up their reruns of decades-old shows and also refuse to learn how to use Hulu, so they'll happily pay $150/month so they can watch 70s shows with even worse video quality than TVs in the 70s had.
vel0city 2y ago
> Cable itself was originally the ad-free "premium" version of over-the-air television Often repeated but not true. Cable was originally just all the ad-supported OTA stations delivered over a wire. It had ads on day 1. It would be over a decade before the first premium cable channels would launch, and even then most of the first channels also had ads.