[efsavage]

Interesting, I grew up in an area with good reception, so the pitch was definitely fewer commercials on the cable channels (HBO, Nickelodeon, MTV), I remember standing in the living room as the salesman said this. It was true for a while, but eventually they caught up to OTA ad loads.

[dylan604]

HBO was always a premium ad free channel. MTV was never promoted as ad free.

[skeeter2020]

and premium channels were ridiculously expensive back then too!