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Tell "doesn't match reality" to cable television. All channels ended having ads. This is Capitalism in a American society that is looking more of a plutocracy t
by neves 6mo ago
Tell "doesn't match reality" to cable television. All channels ended having ads. This is Capitalism in a American society that is looking more of a plutocracy than a democracy.
- raw_anon_1111 6mo agoPlease for the love of all that is holy stop with the completely false outdated meme that “at one point cable didn’t have ads” Cable was first introduced as a means to get over the air channels for remote places that couldn’t get a signal to get network tv. These channels always had ads. Then came the “Superstations”. They were local independent ad supported channels like TBS in Atlanta and WGN in Chicago that went national. They always had ads. Then the early cable channels like ESPN, the precursor to Lifetime, CNN etc and they always had ads. The other early cable channels were trying to sell ads to advertisers from day one but they didn’t have enough viewers. Yes channels that you paid extra for like HBO didn’t have ads and still don’t.
- neves 6mo agoIn Brazil cable started not having ads. Don't take USA for all the world
- raw_anon_1111 6mo agoA quick bit of Googling shows that by the time cable got to be standardized with anything worthwhile in Brazil, ads came along with it. Before then it was mostly premium channels that also don’t and never had ads in the US.