Back in the infancy of cable, I remember one of the selling points was that there were no commercials to worry about.
Hah! I remember that too! I remember telling my parents “Come on let’s get it there’s no commercials!” Now out of a 1000 channels maybe one or two are commercial free. That’s the money angle, anytime money is involved eventually the rules are going to change no matter what they say. That’s why this stuff of the FCC getting involved in the internet is such a scam, it goes without saying eventually they’re going to go after the money. A license to run a website, taxes, fines, you name it.
I remember when Disney Channel started having commercials. They would just advertise the shows that came on Disney.