Peter Duniho wrote:

I don't even remember "commercial free cable TV".

It was a big selling point for cable for the first year or two in the Atlanta
market. By the time cable networks got into the more suburban environments ads
were starting to become common.

George Patterson
Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is curable
either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the circumstances
under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but more
often to the physician than to the patient.