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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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That's right, I forgot about that part. Right after the national anthem

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Yup. With a waving American flag...

Fuck, as memory serves, even HBO used to go off the air at night - but I think that might have been like an hour later to cover two time zones. I can't really recall.

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I have no clue about HBO going off air, we never had cable

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That's another thing... People think 'cable used to be all ad free!'

You hear that a lot. It's a lie, of course. Well, if nothing else, it's a mistake.

See, cable was originally just broadcast TV for places that couldn't get reception. The community would put up a tower on a nearby hill and then run cable to the people in the community who subscribed to it. The only thing cable carried was the same local channels everyone else could get if they didn't live in the valley.

Eventually, cable would add their own community channels in many areas. That's how you ended up with community access cable.

But, no... No, cable had all the same ads the regular TV had because it was the same exact channels that everyone else got. There was no mechanism to remove ads from those OTA broadcasts and they're have been sued out of existence had they tried.

And that's the goddamned truth about cable. It kinda irks me when I see people say shit like how cable had no ads at first.