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> People still subscribe to cable TV even though it's full of ads. Back in the day (yes, I'm that old) the selling point of cable was "TV without any ads". It

• dhosek 2y ago
  You must be really old because the selling point was always more channels/better quality picture. No ads was reserved for the premium channels (HBO and Showtime) which were an added fee. There were a small number of basic cable channels which were ad-free (AMC and TCM, if I recall correctly were originally both ad-free), but most basic cable channels had ads (and some were just re-feeds of independent broadcast “super stations” like WTBS and WOR.
  • godshatter 2y ago
    I do remember back when MTV started they showed videos on rotation without ads, along with some other content. Ads only came later. I also remember being greatly annoyed by ads appearing everywhere on a service we were paying for. I wasn't alone in this, it was a big topic at the time.
  • TeMPOraL 2y ago
    That's why I keep saying[0] advertising is a cancer on society. TV and news are one of the first media it consumed so thoroughly people don't remember there was a time where ads weren't expected, or default, or integral part of anything. -- [0] - http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
  • lazyasciiart 2y ago
    Or they could be foreign :) When cable TV launched in Australia, for the first couple of years ads during shows were banned.