I can remember when cable TV came out. No commercials, or very few if any. Now? It's non-stop, endless commercials.
We all got duped and hoodwinked into paying for TV.
Why would you expect people to spend their time, energy, and hard-earned dollars, and not get paid for their investment.
I went to lunch at McDonalds yesterday, and ate one of their $1 double cheeseburgers. I bought one for my dog, but got it without cheese.
I went to dinner last night at the Outback Steakhouse. With tip, for two of us (not the dog) to have dinner, was just under a hundred bucks, and included a blttle of over-priced wine. I wanted it.
They spend all day cooking ribs at Outback, but don't open until 5pm. I probably paid extra for time when the store wasn't open, but they were making my dinner... and damn they were good ribs! Both cost me $$$, but I rather enjoyed the more expensive meal. I just filled my empty belly with the other one!!!
Yeah all 4 channels if you count PBS. Well at least channel surfing was quick.
We had cable in NE PA back in the mid's 60's, it's purpose was pull in the fringe broadcast stations from NY, Philly, Baltimore and DC. Just regular stations commercials and all and usually off the air by 1 AM. Later in the early 70's we got HBO, Wilkes-Barre is where it started, that was commercial free but it only had 6 hours of daily programming 6PM to midnight which was repeated the following day noon to 6PM. It cost about the same as today accounting inflation.
As for pay radio if the content is crap it ain't worth a dime but XM (no commercials) has their act together and I hear music that would cost thousands of dollars to collect, even at old 60's record prices, if you could even find the songs anymore. Now back to Harry James, Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Sinatra and Jolson, they are only in 1947 in their "HIT" countdown of the last 70 years which started Thursday afternoon.