Cable once touted no commercials as a reason to subscribe.
The thing that I find annoying is that commercial breaks are synchronized across channels now, so you can’t surf away from them.
I remember as a kid marveling at the commercial-free cable TV offerings. My dad mumbled and grumbled that adding the 3 available movie channels drove the total monthly cable bill up to a whopping $30. Now, individual movie channels charge almost that much to give us a couple of decent shows and a few decent movies and a whole heap of tripe and filler.