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To: Leaning Right

Wasn’t cable TV (also known as “pay TV”) supposed to be commercial-free?


7 posted on 04/19/2020 4:31:37 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom
Wasn’t cable TV (also known as “pay TV”) supposed to be commercial-free?

That was like 40 years ago.

14 posted on 04/19/2020 4:35:51 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (Time for all patriotic Americans to boycott liberals and all SJW/PC bullsh*t.)
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I remember cable TV way back in 1960. Yes, cable TV was in some areas back then. They still had commercials in it.


38 posted on 04/19/2020 4:50:25 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Steely Tom
Wasn’t cable TV (also known as “pay TV”) supposed to be commercial-free?

I remember that was a big selling point circa 1978-1980. The angle was that over the air tv was funded by commercials, but cable tv was supposed to be funded by the monthly bill INSTEAD OF commercials. This lasted about 2 minutes.

The result is cable subscribers spend a large portion of their bill to buy commercials.

95 posted on 04/19/2020 6:44:03 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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