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* In 2018, after Comcast unexpectedly dropped Big Ten Network outside of Big Ten conference markets, Dish Network began to counter with a commercial showing a frustrated college football fan unable to watch his game (clearly not prominent enough to be on a major channel), promoting that Dish carried "every" Division I football game.
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* DSL. Let's look at DSL. It's medium speed Internet over phone lines. Faster than dial-up but much slower than broadband. Given a choice, nobody would buy DSL if they can get broadband, either as fiber or via a cable modem. The only two reasons anyone today seriously takes DSL for Internet are (1) they cannot get broadband or anything faster, or (2) they can't afford high-speed broadband. The cheapest DSL is maybe 400kbps at about $20 a month vs. about $60 for 15mbps broadband (cable modem or fiber), about 30x as fast as DSL. Cable companies talking about those taking DSL as a bad idea (and trying to get them to switch from DSL to broadband) are only targeting two classes of customers: (1) extremely price-conscious residential customers for whom the $40 is important (no serious commercial business that requires Internet service is going to be concerned about the $40 extra for Cable modem broadband vs DSL), or (2) rural areas that can't get cable Internet. So the anti-DSL commercials are targeting people who either can't get or can't afford Cable Internet anyway!
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* DSL. Let's look at DSL. It's medium speed Internet over phone lines. Faster than dial-up but much slower than broadband. Given a choice, nobody would buy DSL if they can get broadband, either as fiber or via a cable modem. The only two reasons anyone today seriously takes DSL for Internet are (1) they cannot get broadband or anything faster, or (2) they can't afford high-speed broadband. The cheapest DSL is maybe 400kbps at about $20 a month vs. about $60 for 15mbps broadband (cable modem or fiber), about 30x as fast as DSL. Cable companies talking about those taking DSL as a bad idea (and trying to get them to switch from DSL to broadband) are only targeting two three classes of customers: (1) extremely price-conscious residential customers for whom the $40 is important (no serious commercial business that requires Internet service is going to be concerned about the $40 extra for Cable modem broadband vs DSL), or (2) rural areas that can't get cable Internet. Internet, or (3) customers (typically older) who use the Internet sparingly and don't want to pay for a service they're not really using all that much. So the anti-DSL commercials are targeting people who either can't get or get, can't afford afford, or simply aren't interested in Cable Internet anyway!
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Cable companies air commercials about how satellite dishes lose their signal when it rains. Satellite companies air commercials about how cable has limited availability, costs too much, and gives you strange contracts. And phone companies, which began providing TV service in TheNewTens, show commercials about [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs both]].
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Cable companies air commercials about how satellite dishes lose their signal when it rains. Satellite companies air commercials about how cable has limited availability, costs too much, and gives you strange contracts. And phone companies, which began providing TV service thanks to the spread of IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) in TheNewTens, show commercials about [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs both]].
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* Through most of 2009, Canadians got to witness a variation of this where cable carriers and over-the-air broadcasters were in a propaganda war over [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee-for-carriage proposed new government regulations]] changing the relationship between OTA broadcasters and cable. Broadcasters, trying to convince the public that the new fees cable companies would have to pay could be used to fund "local TV" and without it smaller centres would lose their affiliates, started a "Save Local TV" ad campaign. Cable companies, insisting that they would pass this cost onto their consumers at the behest of government policy (this is less scary, of course, when you remember the entire industry is highly regulated) started a "Stop the TV tax" ad campaign. For most of the year, this was the majority of the ads aired on television. The ad campaign only died when the government tabled the decision.
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* Through most of 2009, Canadians got to witness a variation of this where cable carriers and over-the-air broadcasters were in a propaganda war over [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee-for-carriage proposed new government regulations]] changing the relationship between OTA broadcasters and cable. Broadcasters, trying to convince the public that the new fees cable companies would have to pay could be used to fund "local TV" and without it smaller centres would lose their affiliates, local programming, started a "Save Local TV" ad campaign. Cable companies, insisting that they would pass this cost onto their consumers at the behest of government policy (this is less scary, of course, when you remember the entire industry is highly regulated) started a "Stop the TV tax" Tax" ad campaign. For most of the year, this was the majority of the ads aired on Canadian television. The ad campaign only died when the government tabled the decision.decision.
** The over-the-top dramatic nature of the ads, especially the Stop the TV Tax side with their ads of various everyday people on the street being asked their opinion on the "TV tax", was parodied on ''Series/TheRickMercerReport''.
---> '''Man:''' This is not a world in which I would want to raise a child. I'm glad I'm sterile. [[SuddenlyShouting I'M GLAD I'M STERILE!]]
** The over-the-top dramatic nature of the ads, especially the Stop the TV Tax side with their ads of various everyday people on the street being asked their opinion on the "TV tax", was parodied on ''Series/TheRickMercerReport''.
---> '''Man:''' This is not a world in which I would want to raise a child. I'm glad I'm sterile. [[SuddenlyShouting I'M GLAD I'M STERILE!]]
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* In Canada, Bell and Rogers both claim to have the most HD content. Rogers had an {{JustForFun/egregious}} ad in which the satellite company's picture for a hockey game is shown as blurry and distorted. In reality, the two services are quite similar for HD content.
** Ironically, not only was the banner at on the top AND bottom of this page for Bell's service, but it was part of their "couch" campaign. Rogers and Bell have been using identical attack ads showing a couch with company-related colour coding split down the middle in an empty room and showing various permutations of the couch to symbolically represent the contrast in service.
** Ironically, not only was the banner at on the top AND bottom of this page for Bell's service, but it was part of their "couch" campaign. Rogers and Bell have been using identical attack ads showing a couch with company-related colour coding split down the middle in an empty room and showing various permutations of the couch to symbolically represent the contrast in service.
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* At one point in TheNineties, a local UK branch of Comcast basically had a slot in their channel line-up reserved for the then emerging Creator/{{Sky}} 2 channel, but all you got was a message saying that they couldn't show it because they couldn't shell out for the high fees Sky required to show it on their service. This somewhat foreshadowed the Sky vs. Virgin Media spat described below, though Sky 2 had long since ceased to exist by the time of the Virgin dispute.
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* [=LivingTV=] was a bit more subtle in some of the promos for ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' that aired while the series was running on Creator/ChannelFive - "Hi, I'm Creator/RoseMcGowan and you are watching [=LivingTV=], the ''real'' home of ''Charmed''." (Justified in this case as Living has shown the entire run [[AdoredByTheNetwork numerous times]], whereas Five [[ChannelHop let the final season go]] to Creator/Channel4.)
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* Mexico has the SKY vs. cable ads. Since SKY has a virtual monopoly over satellite TV in Mexico after ''purchasing'' [=DirecTV=], the cable companies play on the satellite TV's ridiculously high prices, while SKY plays on the cable's limited availability and their lack of blacked-out soccer matches. Later on, the triple-play technologies started giving the cable companies the upper hand.
** Nowadays it has evolved into an all-out bashing campaign from '''yoo''' (a Triple-Play service) against everyone[[note]]their main target is Telmex, Mexico's largest phone and internet provider, which can't offer cable TV services due to strange legal circumstances[[/note]] except Sky (since both have deals with the same company), which backfired spectacularly for the same reasons as the ''I'm A Mac'' ads. They learned from that mistake, but their ads are still disliked because the main networks [[SpamAttack spam them during every commercial break.]]
* Creator/SkyOne LOVED to point out in promos for their series that they would show up years before coming to terrestrial, most notably in one for ''Series/LawAndOrder'' which specifically mentioned the series' FTA home Creator/ChannelFive; this one was narrated by Steven Zirnkilton... who, for those who don't know, is the fellow who provides the opening voiceover for all the ''L&O'' shows.
** Nowadays it has evolved into an all-out bashing campaign from '''yoo''' (a Triple-Play service) against everyone[[note]]their main target is Telmex, Mexico's largest phone and internet provider, which can't offer cable TV services due to strange legal circumstances[[/note]] except Sky (since both have deals with the same company), which backfired spectacularly for the same reasons as the ''I'm A Mac'' ads. They learned from that mistake, but their ads are still disliked because the main networks [[SpamAttack spam them during every commercial break.]]
* Creator/SkyOne LOVED to point out in promos for their series that they would show up years before coming to terrestrial, most notably in one for ''Series/LawAndOrder'' which specifically mentioned the series' FTA home Creator/ChannelFive; this one was narrated by Steven Zirnkilton... who, for those who don't know, is the fellow who provides the opening voiceover for all the ''L&O'' shows.
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* This type of commercial started coming to The Netherlands, where UPC and Ziggo control over 90% of the market when it comes to cable. They've been knocking KPN / [=TELE2=] for the quality of their digital TV offering and DSL in general for their lack of speed. Of course, KPN (who owns the telecom network) has started building a fiber-optic network to get better speeds, so soon enough the ads will be going the other direction.
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* In the UK, there was a brief but bitter war between Virgin Media and Sky, after a falling out meant that Sky withdrew some of their channels (such as Creator/Sky1) that had previously been available on Virgin. So instead of saying "You can watch this on our service", Sky's ads for the next few months all said "You can't watch this on their service", i.e. their ''Series/{{Lost}}'' poster read "Answers are coming... but not to Virgin Media".
** Meanwhile the EPG spaces where their channels used to be were replaced with {{Pun}}s on the actual channel names.
** Also with Virgin, they used to run adverts claiming that their internet connections were better than ADSL, despite their network having huge issues with latency and overselling of capacity, and the 50mbit service they advertised having very low national availability. The Advertising Standards Agency later told them they can not run the adverts again in the same form.
** Meanwhile the EPG spaces where their channels used to be were replaced with {{Pun}}s on the actual channel names.
** Also with Virgin, they used to run adverts claiming that their internet connections were better than ADSL, despite their network having huge issues with latency and overselling of capacity, and the 50mbit service they advertised having very low national availability. The Advertising Standards Agency later told them they can not run the adverts again in the same form.
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* Through most of 2009, Canadians got to witness a variation of this where cable carriers and over-the-air broadcasters were in a propaganda war over [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee-for-carriage proposed new government regulations]] changing the relationship between OTA broadcasters and cable. Broadcasters, trying to convince the public that the new fees cable companies would have to pay could be used to fund "local TV" and without it smaller centres would lose their affiliates, started a "Save Local TV" ad campaign. Cable companies, insisting that they would pass this cost onto their consumers at the behest of government policy (this is less scary, of course, when you remember the entire industry is highly regulated) started a "Stop the TV tax" ad campaign. For most of the year, this was the majority of the ads aired on television. The ad campaign only died when the government tabled the decision.
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* Since Australian pay TV is practically just Foxtel, the mudslinging is between them and broadcast networks. Fox Sports' [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball AFL]] channel is advertised as being completely "ad-break free siren to siren", and even the [[CommercialPopUp bug in the corner]] constantly brags about it. Meanwhile, almost all OTA networks broadcast sporting events with an on-screen graphic announcing that it's "live and free".
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* A September 2017 ad by [=DirectTV=] (yep, them again) re-assured viewers that there were still people who enjoyed cable, just like how there are people that enjoy unpleasant things like banging their heads into a low ceiling, drinking sour milk, or getting a paper cut. [[NightmareFuel With appropriately horrifying imagery.]] And now they're showing cable users enjoying other unpleasant things like wet shopping bags and bad haircuts.
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* A September 2017 ad by [=DirectTV=] (yep, them again) re-assured viewers that there were still people who enjoyed cable, just like how there are people that enjoy unpleasant things like banging their heads into a low ceiling, drinking sour milk, or getting a paper cut. [[NightmareFuel With appropriately horrifying imagery.]] And now they're showing cable users enjoying other unpleasant things like wet shopping bags and bad haircuts.haircuts.
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* In Canada, Bell and Rogers both claim to have the most HD content. Rogers had an {{JustForFun/egregious}} ad in which the satellite company's picture for a hockey game is shown as blurry and distorted. In reality, the two services are quite similar for HD content.
** Ironically, not only was the banner at on the top AND bottom of this page for Bell's service, but it was part of their "couch" campaign. Rogers and Bell have been using identical attack ads showing a couch with company-related colour coding split down the middle in an empty room and showing various permutations of the couch to symbolically represent the contrast in service.
* At one point in TheNineties, a local UK branch of Comcast basically had a slot in their channel line-up reserved for the then emerging Creator/{{Sky}} 2 channel, but all you got was a message saying that they couldn't show it because they couldn't shell out for the high fees Sky required to show it on their service. This somewhat foreshadowed the Sky vs. Virgin Media spat described below, though Sky 2 had long since ceased to exist by the time of the Virgin dispute.
* [=LivingTV=] was a bit more subtle in some of the promos for ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' that aired while the series was running on Creator/ChannelFive - "Hi, I'm Creator/RoseMcGowan and you are watching [=LivingTV=], the ''real'' home of ''Charmed''." (Justified in this case as Living has shown the entire run [[AdoredByTheNetwork numerous times]], whereas Five [[ChannelHop let the final season go]] to Creator/Channel4.)
* Mexico has the SKY vs. cable ads. Since SKY has a virtual monopoly over satellite TV in Mexico after ''purchasing'' [=DirecTV=], the cable companies play on the satellite TV's ridiculously high prices, while SKY plays on the cable's limited availability and their lack of blacked-out soccer matches. Later on, the triple-play technologies started giving the cable companies the upper hand.
** Nowadays it has evolved into an all-out bashing campaign from '''yoo''' (a Triple-Play service) against everyone[[note]]their main target is Telmex, Mexico's largest phone and internet provider, which can't offer cable TV services due to strange legal circumstances[[/note]] except Sky (since both have deals with the same company), which backfired spectacularly for the same reasons as the ''I'm A Mac'' ads. They learned from that mistake, but their ads are still disliked because the main networks [[SpamAttack spam them during every commercial break.]]
* Creator/SkyOne LOVED to point out in promos for their series that they would show up years before coming to terrestrial, most notably in one for ''Series/LawAndOrder'' which specifically mentioned the series' FTA home Creator/ChannelFive; this one was narrated by Steven Zirnkilton... who, for those who don't know, is the fellow who provides the opening voiceover for all the ''L&O'' shows.
* This type of commercial started coming to The Netherlands, where UPC and Ziggo control over 90% of the market when it comes to cable. They've been knocking KPN / [=TELE2=] for the quality of their digital TV offering and DSL in general for their lack of speed. Of course, KPN (who owns the telecom network) has started building a fiber-optic network to get better speeds, so soon enough the ads will be going the other direction.
* In the UK, there was a brief but bitter war between Virgin Media and Sky, after a falling out meant that Sky withdrew some of their channels (such as Creator/Sky1) that had previously been available on Virgin. So instead of saying "You can watch this on our service", Sky's ads for the next few months all said "You can't watch this on their service", i.e. their ''Series/{{Lost}}'' poster read "Answers are coming... but not to Virgin Media".
** Meanwhile the EPG spaces where their channels used to be were replaced with {{Pun}}s on the actual channel names.
** Also with Virgin, they used to run adverts claiming that their internet connections were better than ADSL, despite their network having huge issues with latency and overselling of capacity, and the 50mbit service they advertised having very low national availability. The Advertising Standards Agency later told them they can not run the adverts again in the same form.
* Through most of 2009, Canadians got to witness a variation of this where cable carriers and over-the-air broadcasters were in a propaganda war over [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee-for-carriage proposed new government regulations]] changing the relationship between OTA broadcasters and cable. Broadcasters, trying to convince the public that the new fees cable companies would have to pay could be used to fund "local TV" and without it smaller centres would lose their affiliates, started a "Save Local TV" ad campaign. Cable companies, insisting that they would pass this cost onto their consumers at the behest of government policy (this is less scary, of course, when you remember the entire industry is highly regulated) started a "Stop the TV tax" ad campaign. For most of the year, this was the majority of the ads aired on television. The ad campaign only died when the government tabled the decision.
* Since Australian pay TV is practically just Foxtel, the mudslinging is between them and broadcast networks. Fox Sports' [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball AFL]] channel is advertised as being completely "ad-break free siren to siren", and even the [[CommercialPopUp bug in the corner]] constantly brags about it. Meanwhile, almost all OTA networks broadcast sporting events with an on-screen graphic announcing that it's "live and free".
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* In Canada, Bell and Rogers both claim to have the most HD content. Rogers had an {{JustForFun/egregious}} ad in which the satellite company's picture for a hockey game is shown as blurry and distorted. In reality, the two services are quite similar for HD content.
** Ironically, not only was the banner at on the top AND bottom of this page for Bell's service, but it was part of their "couch" campaign. Rogers and Bell have been using identical attack ads showing a couch with company-related colour coding split down the middle in an empty room and showing various permutations of the couch to symbolically represent the contrast in service.
* At one point in TheNineties, a local UK branch of Comcast basically had a slot in their channel line-up reserved for the then emerging Creator/{{Sky}} 2 channel, but all you got was a message saying that they couldn't show it because they couldn't shell out for the high fees Sky required to show it on their service. This somewhat foreshadowed the Sky vs. Virgin Media spat described below, though Sky 2 had long since ceased to exist by the time of the Virgin dispute.
* [=LivingTV=] was a bit more subtle in some of the promos for ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' that aired while the series was running on Creator/ChannelFive - "Hi, I'm Creator/RoseMcGowan and you are watching [=LivingTV=], the ''real'' home of ''Charmed''." (Justified in this case as Living has shown the entire run [[AdoredByTheNetwork numerous times]], whereas Five [[ChannelHop let the final season go]] to Creator/Channel4.)
* Mexico has the SKY vs. cable ads. Since SKY has a virtual monopoly over satellite TV in Mexico after ''purchasing'' [=DirecTV=], the cable companies play on the satellite TV's ridiculously high prices, while SKY plays on the cable's limited availability and their lack of blacked-out soccer matches. Later on, the triple-play technologies started giving the cable companies the upper hand.
** Nowadays it has evolved into an all-out bashing campaign from '''yoo''' (a Triple-Play service) against everyone[[note]]their main target is Telmex, Mexico's largest phone and internet provider, which can't offer cable TV services due to strange legal circumstances[[/note]] except Sky (since both have deals with the same company), which backfired spectacularly for the same reasons as the ''I'm A Mac'' ads. They learned from that mistake, but their ads are still disliked because the main networks [[SpamAttack spam them during every commercial break.]]
* Creator/SkyOne LOVED to point out in promos for their series that they would show up years before coming to terrestrial, most notably in one for ''Series/LawAndOrder'' which specifically mentioned the series' FTA home Creator/ChannelFive; this one was narrated by Steven Zirnkilton... who, for those who don't know, is the fellow who provides the opening voiceover for all the ''L&O'' shows.
* This type of commercial started coming to The Netherlands, where UPC and Ziggo control over 90% of the market when it comes to cable. They've been knocking KPN / [=TELE2=] for the quality of their digital TV offering and DSL in general for their lack of speed. Of course, KPN (who owns the telecom network) has started building a fiber-optic network to get better speeds, so soon enough the ads will be going the other direction.
* In the UK, there was a brief but bitter war between Virgin Media and Sky, after a falling out meant that Sky withdrew some of their channels (such as Creator/Sky1) that had previously been available on Virgin. So instead of saying "You can watch this on our service", Sky's ads for the next few months all said "You can't watch this on their service", i.e. their ''Series/{{Lost}}'' poster read "Answers are coming... but not to Virgin Media".
** Meanwhile the EPG spaces where their channels used to be were replaced with {{Pun}}s on the actual channel names.
** Also with Virgin, they used to run adverts claiming that their internet connections were better than ADSL, despite their network having huge issues with latency and overselling of capacity, and the 50mbit service they advertised having very low national availability. The Advertising Standards Agency later told them they can not run the adverts again in the same form.
* Through most of 2009, Canadians got to witness a variation of this where cable carriers and over-the-air broadcasters were in a propaganda war over [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee-for-carriage proposed new government regulations]] changing the relationship between OTA broadcasters and cable. Broadcasters, trying to convince the public that the new fees cable companies would have to pay could be used to fund "local TV" and without it smaller centres would lose their affiliates, started a "Save Local TV" ad campaign. Cable companies, insisting that they would pass this cost onto their consumers at the behest of government policy (this is less scary, of course, when you remember the entire industry is highly regulated) started a "Stop the TV tax" ad campaign. For most of the year, this was the majority of the ads aired on television. The ad campaign only died when the government tabled the decision.
* Since Australian pay TV is practically just Foxtel, the mudslinging is between them and broadcast networks. Fox Sports' [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball AFL]] channel is advertised as being completely "ad-break free siren to siren", and even the [[CommercialPopUp bug in the corner]] constantly brags about it. Meanwhile, almost all OTA networks broadcast sporting events with an on-screen graphic announcing that it's "live and free".
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* A September 2017 ad by [=DirectTV=] (yep, them again) re-assured viewers that there were still people who enjoyed cable, just like how there are people that enjoy unpleasant things like banging their heads into a low ceiling, drinking sour milk, or getting a paper cut. And now they're showing cable users enjoying other unpleasant things like wet shopping bags and bad haircuts.
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* A September 2017 ad by [=DirectTV=] (yep, them again) re-assured viewers that there were still people who enjoyed cable, just like how there are people that enjoy unpleasant things like banging their heads into a low ceiling, drinking sour milk, or getting a paper cut. [[NightmareFuel With appropriately horrifying imagery.]] And now they're showing cable users enjoying other unpleasant things like wet shopping bags and bad haircuts.
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The development of "triple-play" -- phone, TV and data in a cable connection -- might turn the tables on this practice sooner or later. Satellite has historically been far more expensive and less efficient for data and phone than wired services, at least in urban areas. Something else that has also begun to change the playing field is (usually cheaper and more convenient) online viewing through services such as Hulu, Amazon Instant Video / Prime, and Netflix, leading many to [[TakeAThirdOption ditch either cable or satellite entirely]]. Of course, this may just mean that the cable / satellite providers pursue the remaining market all the more aggressively.
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The development of "triple-play" -- phone, TV and data in a cable connection -- might turn the tables on this practice sooner or later. Satellite has historically been far more expensive and less efficient for data and phone than wired services, at least in urban areas. Something else that has also begun to change the playing field is (usually cheaper and more convenient) online viewing through services such as Hulu, Amazon Instant Video / Prime, and Netflix, leading many to [[TakeAThirdOption ditch either cable or satellite entirely]]. Of course, this may just mean that the cable / satellite providers pursue the remaining market all the more aggressively.
aggressively. (For example, partnering with cable and satellite TV ''networks'' to provide apps for phones and devices like the Roku that require logging in via the cable or satellite provider (and therefore a subscription to the cable or satellite provider. Or encouraging them to add on services like Internet and phone, or DVR service, which also usually comes with an additional fee.)
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These commercials are usually seen as cheesy and filled with bad acting, even though they come from big-name companies such as Comcast or Spectrum that should be able to afford better production values. An example is a Time Warner commercial that showed pictures of a cheetah, rabbit and snail and told you to "pick the fast one". Apparently, rabbits are faster than cheetahs. (At least at [[AnimalStereotypes doing one thing]].)
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These commercials are usually seen as cheesy cheesy, [[NoBudget low-budget]], and filled with bad acting, BadBadActing, even though they come from big-name companies such as Comcast or Spectrum that should be able to afford better production values. An example is a Time Warner commercial that showed pictures of a cheetah, rabbit and snail and told you to "pick the fast one". Apparently, rabbits are faster than cheetahs. (At least at [[AnimalStereotypes doing one thing]].)
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* In Canada, Bell and Rogers both claim to have the most HD content. Rogers had an {{egregious}} ad in which the satellite company's picture for a hockey game is shown as blurry and distorted. In reality, the two services are quite similar for HD content.
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* In Canada, Bell and Rogers both claim to have the most HD content. Rogers had an {{egregious}} {{JustForFun/egregious}} ad in which the satellite company's picture for a hockey game is shown as blurry and distorted. In reality, the two services are quite similar for HD content.
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* SkyOne LOVED to point out in promos for their series that they would show up years before coming to terrestrial, most notably in one for ''Series/LawAndOrder'' which specifically mentioned the series' FTA home Creator/ChannelFive; this one was narrated by Steven Zirnkilton... who, for those who don't know, is the fellow who provides the opening voiceover for all the ''L&O'' shows.
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* SkyOne Creator/SkyOne LOVED to point out in promos for their series that they would show up years before coming to terrestrial, most notably in one for ''Series/LawAndOrder'' which specifically mentioned the series' FTA home Creator/ChannelFive; this one was narrated by Steven Zirnkilton... who, for those who don't know, is the fellow who provides the opening voiceover for all the ''L&O'' shows.
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* In the UK, there was a brief but bitter war between Virgin Media and Sky, after a falling out meant that Sky withdrew some of their channels (such as Sky1) that had previously been available on Virgin. So instead of saying "You can watch this on our service", Sky's ads for the next few months all said "You can't watch this on their service", i.e. their ''Series/{{Lost}}'' poster read "Answers are coming... but not to Virgin Media".
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* In the UK, there was a brief but bitter war between Virgin Media and Sky, after a falling out meant that Sky withdrew some of their channels (such as Sky1) Creator/Sky1) that had previously been available on Virgin. So instead of saying "You can watch this on our service", Sky's ads for the next few months all said "You can't watch this on their service", i.e. their ''Series/{{Lost}}'' poster read "Answers are coming... but not to Virgin Media".
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* A September 2017 ad re-assured viewers that there were still people who enjoyed cable, just like how there are people that enjoy unpleasant things like banging their heads into a low ceiling, drinking sour milk, or getting a paper cut.
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* A September 2017 ad by [=DirectTV=] (yep, them again) re-assured viewers that there were still people who enjoyed cable, just like how there are people that enjoy unpleasant things like banging their heads into a low ceiling, drinking sour milk, or getting a paper cut.cut. And now they're showing cable users enjoying other unpleasant things like wet shopping bags and bad haircuts.
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* Around 2014, Time Warner Cable was looking to hit AT&T U-verse on the fact that their service at the time could ''only'' show live TV on ''four'' different devices at once. So they made up a bizarre scenario where a kid couldn't watch cartoons on a rainy day because ''four'' different other family members were watching ''four'' different live streams at once. That is, until a Time Warner rep showed up and saved the day. Presumably the family didn't have any cartoons DVR'd, or TWC just didn't want to admit that U-verse could do more devices at once if some were watching DVR'd content.
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* Around 2014, Time Warner Cable was looking to hit AT&T U-verse on the fact that their service at the time could ''only'' "only" show live TV on ''four'' different devices at once. So they made up a bizarre scenario where a kid couldn't watch cartoons on a rainy day because ''four'' different other family members were watching ''four'' different live streams at once. That is, until a Time Warner rep showed up and saved the day. Presumably the family didn't have any cartoons DVR'd, or TWC just didn't want to admit that U-verse could do more devices at once if some were watching DVR'd content.
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* Around 2014, Time Warner Cable was looking to hit AT&T U-verse on the fact that their service at the time could ''only'' show live TV on ''four'' different devices at once. So they made up a bizarre scenario where a kid couldn't watch cartoons on a rainy day because ''four'' different other family members were watching ''four'' different live streams at once. That is, until a Time Warner rep showed up and saved the day. Presumably the family didn't have any cartoons DVR'd, or TWC just didn't want to admit that U-verse could do more devices at once if some were watching DVR'd content.
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* [=LivingTV=] was a bit more subtle in some of the promos for ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' that aired while the series was running on ChannelFive - "Hi, I'm Creator/RoseMcGowan and you are watching [=LivingTV=], the ''real'' home of ''Charmed''." (Justified in this case as Living has shown the entire run [[AdoredByTheNetwork numerous times]], whereas Five [[ChannelHop let the final season go]] to Creator/Channel4.)
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* [=LivingTV=] was a bit more subtle in some of the promos for ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' that aired while the series was running on ChannelFive Creator/ChannelFive - "Hi, I'm Creator/RoseMcGowan and you are watching [=LivingTV=], the ''real'' home of ''Charmed''." (Justified in this case as Living has shown the entire run [[AdoredByTheNetwork numerous times]], whereas Five [[ChannelHop let the final season go]] to Creator/Channel4.)
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* SkyOne LOVED to point out in promos for their series that they would show up years before coming to terrestrial, most notably in one for ''Series/LawAndOrder'' which specifically mentioned the series' FTA home ChannelFive; this one was narrated by Steven Zirnkilton... who, for those who don't know, is the fellow who provides the opening voiceover for all the ''L&O'' shows.
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* SkyOne LOVED to point out in promos for their series that they would show up years before coming to terrestrial, most notably in one for ''Series/LawAndOrder'' which specifically mentioned the series' FTA home ChannelFive; Creator/ChannelFive; this one was narrated by Steven Zirnkilton... who, for those who don't know, is the fellow who provides the opening voiceover for all the ''L&O'' shows.
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* A series of commercials in summer 2016 show an average family whose Internet provided by the cable company has just gone down. Apparently first thing after it went down the cable company went as far as to lock the family in their houses a-la ''Series/BigBrother'' because rather than use the time the Internet is down to go out and have some family time away from technology, the family is left panicking at home and with nothing to do, even going as far as to spy on the neighbors using their working Internet.
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* A series of commercials in summer 2016 show an average family whose Internet provided by the cable company has just gone down. Apparently first thing after it went down the cable company went as far as to lock the family in their houses a-la ''Series/BigBrother'' because rather than use the time the Internet is down to go out and have some family time away from technology, the family is left panicking at home and with nothing to do, even going as far as to spy on the neighbors using their working Internet.Internet.
* A September 2017 ad re-assured viewers that there were still people who enjoyed cable, just like how there are people that enjoy unpleasant things like banging their heads into a low ceiling, drinking sour milk, or getting a paper cut.
* A September 2017 ad re-assured viewers that there were still people who enjoyed cable, just like how there are people that enjoy unpleasant things like banging their heads into a low ceiling, drinking sour milk, or getting a paper cut.
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** As of TWC's new face as Spectrum, they aren't even being subtle about selling themselves as better than satellite television, having slogans such as "[=DirectTV=] Bad, Spectrum Good".
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* Since Australian pay TV is practically just Foxtel, the mudslinging is between them and broadcast networks. Foxtel's [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball AFL]] channel is advertised as being completely "ad-break free siren to siren", while many sport events on Seven (including the some AFL games) are broadcast with an on-screen graphic announcing that it's "live and free".
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* Since Australian pay TV is practically just Foxtel, the mudslinging is between them and broadcast networks. Foxtel's Fox Sports' [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball AFL]] channel is advertised as being completely "ad-break free siren to siren", while many sport events on Seven (including and even the some AFL games) are [[CommercialPopUp bug in the corner]] constantly brags about it. Meanwhile, almost all OTA networks broadcast sporting events with an on-screen graphic announcing that it's "live and free".
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These commercials are usually seen as cheesy and filled with bad acting, even though they come from big-name companies such as Comcast or Time Warner Cable that should be able to afford better production values. An example is a Time Warner commercial that showed pictures of a cheetah, rabbit and snail and told you to "pick the fast one". Apparently, rabbits are faster than cheetahs. (At least at [[AnimalStereotypes doing one thing]].)
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These commercials are usually seen as cheesy and filled with bad acting, even though they come from big-name companies such as Comcast or Time Warner Cable Spectrum that should be able to afford better production values. An example is a Time Warner commercial that showed pictures of a cheetah, rabbit and snail and told you to "pick the fast one". Apparently, rabbits are faster than cheetahs. (At least at [[AnimalStereotypes doing one thing]].)
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* Time Warner Cable has a series of ads where the clean-cut, good looking cable guy happens to run into the satellite guy, whose service just got cancelled. The customer occasionally stands between the two and compares their services. They eventually upgraded to the satellite guy ''stalking'' the TWC guy.
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* Time Warner Cable (now owned by Charter under the new Spectrum branding) has a series of ads where the clean-cut, good looking cable guy happens to run into the satellite guy, whose service just got cancelled. The customer occasionally stands between the two and compares their services. They eventually upgraded to the satellite guy ''stalking'' the TWC guy.
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called, plus satellite (the scrambled ones) channels, for the most part, and those over-the-airwave pay channels such as e.g. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wometco_Home_Theater Wometco Home Theater]][[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., those channels over the airwaves, which were originally, then mostly, free, and some by satellite (unscrambled), as well as "community antena television" which was a big communal antena to which [[=TVs=]] were connected to get better reception, in areas where it was poor like mountains and the countryside, the underlying technology later being repurposed for modern cable TV[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban "pay TV", as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters.[[note]]At the time, theaters got all the recently-released movies, while "free TV", which broadcast all TV movies, had to wait a couple of years before broadcasting them. "Pay TV" (supposedly) undercut the theaters because movie channels such as Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/{{Showtime}} and others, which were the mainstays which lured costumers in the early years, shortened the period between their premiere and their first broadcast - which could become ''zero''![[/note]] According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered "pay TV" could be taxed]].
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called, plus satellite (the scrambled ones) channels, for the most part, and those over-the-airwave pay channels such as e.g. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wometco_Home_Theater Wometco Home Theater]][[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., those channels over the airwaves, which were originally, then mostly, free, and some by satellite (unscrambled), as well as "community antena television" which was a big communal antena to which [[=TVs=]] [=TVs=] were connected to get better reception, in areas where it was poor like mountains and the countryside, the underlying technology later being repurposed for modern cable TV[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban "pay TV", as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters.[[note]]At the time, theaters got all the recently-released movies, while "free TV", which broadcast all TV movies, had to wait a couple of years before broadcasting them. "Pay TV" (supposedly) undercut the theaters because movie channels such as Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/{{Showtime}} and others, which were the mainstays which lured costumers in the early years, shortened the period between their premiere and their first broadcast - which could become ''zero''![[/note]] According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered "pay TV" could be taxed]].
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called, plus satellite (the scrambled ones) channels, for the most part, and those over-the-airwave pay channels such as e.g. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wometco_Home_Theater Wometco Home Theater]][[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., those channels over the airwaves, which were originally, then mostly, free, and some by satellite (unscrambled)[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban "pay TV", as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters.[[note]]At the time, theaters got all the recently-released movies, while "free TV", which broadcast all TV movies, had to wait a couple of years before broadcasting them. "Pay TV" (supposedly) undercut the theaters because movie channels such as Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/{{Showtime}} and others, which were the mainstays which lured costumers in the early years, shortened the period between their premiere and their first broadcast - which could become ''zero''![[/note]] According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered "pay TV" could be taxed]].
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called, plus satellite (the scrambled ones) channels, for the most part, and those over-the-airwave pay channels such as e.g. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wometco_Home_Theater Wometco Home Theater]][[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., those channels over the airwaves, which were originally, then mostly, free, and some by satellite (unscrambled)[[/note]].(unscrambled), as well as "community antena television" which was a big communal antena to which [[=TVs=]] were connected to get better reception, in areas where it was poor like mountains and the countryside, the underlying technology later being repurposed for modern cable TV[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban "pay TV", as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters.[[note]]At the time, theaters got all the recently-released movies, while "free TV", which broadcast all TV movies, had to wait a couple of years before broadcasting them. "Pay TV" (supposedly) undercut the theaters because movie channels such as Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/{{Showtime}} and others, which were the mainstays which lured costumers in the early years, shortened the period between their premiere and their first broadcast - which could become ''zero''![[/note]] According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered "pay TV" could be taxed]].
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called, plus satellite (the scrambled ones) channels, for the most part, and those over-the-airwave pay channels such as e.g. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wometco_Home_Theater Wometco Home Theater]][[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., those channels over the airwaves, which were originally, then mostly, free, and some by satellite (unscrambled)[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban cable, as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters.[[note]]At the time, theaters got all the recently-released movies, while "free TV", which broadcast all TV movies, had to wait a couple of years before broadcasting them. "Pay TV" (supposedly) undercut the theaters because movie channels such as Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/{{Showtime}} and others, which were the mainstays which lured costumers in the early years, shortened the period between their premiere and their first broadcast - which could become ''zero''![[/note]] According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered "pay TV" could be taxed]].
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called, plus satellite (the scrambled ones) channels, for the most part, and those over-the-airwave pay channels such as e.g. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wometco_Home_Theater Wometco Home Theater]][[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., those channels over the airwaves, which were originally, then mostly, free, and some by satellite (unscrambled)[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban cable, "pay TV", as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters.[[note]]At the time, theaters got all the recently-released movies, while "free TV", which broadcast all TV movies, had to wait a couple of years before broadcasting them. "Pay TV" (supposedly) undercut the theaters because movie channels such as Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/{{Showtime}} and others, which were the mainstays which lured costumers in the early years, shortened the period between their premiere and their first broadcast - which could become ''zero''![[/note]] According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered "pay TV" could be taxed]].
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called, plus satellite (the scrambled ones) channels, for the most part, and those over-the-airwave pay channels such as e.g. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wometco_Home_Theater Wometco Home Theater]][[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., those channels over the airwaves, which were originally, then mostly, free, and some by satellite (unscrambled)[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban cable, as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters.[[note]]At the time, theaters got all the recently-released movies, while "free TV", which broadcast all TV movies, had to wait a couple of years before broadcasting them. "Pay TV" (supposedly) undercut the theaters because movie channels such as Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/{{Showtime}} and others, which were the mainstays which lured costumers in the early years, shortened the period between their premiere and their first broadcast - which could become ''zero''![[/note]] According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered cable could be taxed]].
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called, plus satellite (the scrambled ones) channels, for the most part, and those over-the-airwave pay channels such as e.g. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wometco_Home_Theater Wometco Home Theater]][[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., those channels over the airwaves, which were originally, then mostly, free, and some by satellite (unscrambled)[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban cable, as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters.[[note]]At the time, theaters got all the recently-released movies, while "free TV", which broadcast all TV movies, had to wait a couple of years before broadcasting them. "Pay TV" (supposedly) undercut the theaters because movie channels such as Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/{{Showtime}} and others, which were the mainstays which lured costumers in the early years, shortened the period between their premiere and their first broadcast - which could become ''zero''![[/note]] According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered cable "pay TV" could be taxed]].
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* In the UK, there was a brief but bitter war between Virgin Media and Sky, after a falling out meant that Sky withdrew some of their channels that had previously been available on Virgin. So instead of saying "You can watch this on our service", Sky's ads for the next few months all said "You can't watch this on their service", i.e. their ''Series/{{Lost}}'' poster read "Answers are coming... but not to Virgin Media".
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* In the UK, there was a brief but bitter war between Virgin Media and Sky, after a falling out meant that Sky withdrew some of their channels (such as Sky1) that had previously been available on Virgin. So instead of saying "You can watch this on our service", Sky's ads for the next few months all said "You can't watch this on their service", i.e. their ''Series/{{Lost}}'' poster read "Answers are coming... but not to Virgin Media".
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* [=LivingTV=] was a bit more subtle in some of the promos for ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' that aired while the series was running on ChannelFive - "Hi, I'm Creator/RoseMcGowan and you are watching [=LivingTV=], the ''real'' home of ''Charmed''." (Justified in this case as Living has shown the entire run [[AdoredByTheNetwork numerous times]], whereas Five [[ChannelHop let the final season go]] to ChannelFour.)
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* [=LivingTV=] was a bit more subtle in some of the promos for ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' that aired while the series was running on ChannelFive - "Hi, I'm Creator/RoseMcGowan and you are watching [=LivingTV=], the ''real'' home of ''Charmed''." (Justified in this case as Living has shown the entire run [[AdoredByTheNetwork numerous times]], whereas Five [[ChannelHop let the final season go]] to ChannelFour.Creator/Channel4.)
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called[[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., over the airwaves[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban cable, as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters. According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered cable could be taxed]].
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called[[/note]] called, plus satellite (the scrambled ones) channels, for the most part, and those over-the-airwave pay channels such as e.g. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wometco_Home_Theater Wometco Home Theater]][[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., those channels over the airwaves[[/note]].airwaves, which were originally, then mostly, free, and some by satellite (unscrambled)[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban cable, as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters. [[note]]At the time, theaters got all the recently-released movies, while "free TV", which broadcast all TV movies, had to wait a couple of years before broadcasting them. "Pay TV" (supposedly) undercut the theaters because movie channels such as Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/{{Showtime}} and others, which were the mainstays which lured costumers in the early years, shortened the period between their premiere and their first broadcast - which could become ''zero''![[/note]] According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered cable could be taxed]].
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** In the mid-2000s, Time Warner ran a series of black-and-white ads featuring the Hardways, a family dressed in 1950s attire and using corded dial phones, record players, and a mid-80s MS-DOS computer. By the final commercial, the Hardways have switched to Time Warner and are now wearing contemporary clothes and using modern equipment, in glorious color.
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called[[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., over the airwaves[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban cable, as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, with the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters. According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered cable could be taxed]].
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* [[https://youtu.be/QIgZHZpiq1U A '70s percursor to those cable/satelite ads]]: "pay TV"[[note]]what cable was then called[[/note]] vs "free TV"[[note]]i.e., over the airwaves[[/note]]. It was a ScareCampaign which urged people to sign a petition to ban cable, as people shouldn't pay for what they already had for free and [[ScareEmStraight it would be another place where monsters appeared]]. With shades of NewMediaAreEvil, with as well as the added bonus the ad was run in movie theaters. According to some commentaries, this bilge was successful in some communities up until the day [[MoneyDearBoy local governments discovered cable could be taxed]].
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* During the 2015 holiday season a Time Warner Cable ad featured a family that wanted more from their home Internet named --[[MeaningfulName The Moores!]]
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* A series of commercials in summer 2016 show an average family whose Internet provided by the cable company has just gone down. Apparently first thing after it went down the cable company went as far as to lock the family in their houses a-la ''Series/BigBrother'' because rather than use the time the Internet is down to go out and have some family time away from technology, the family is left panicking at home and with nothing to do, even going as far as to spy on the neighbors using their working Internet.
* A series of commercials in summer 2016 show an average family whose Internet provided by the cable company has just gone down. Apparently first thing after it went down the cable company went as far as to lock the family in their houses a-la ''Series/BigBrother'' because rather than use the time the Internet is down to go out and have some family time away from technology, the family is left panicking at home and with nothing to do, even going as far as to spy on the neighbors using their working Internet.
