I laughed at such things as a kid, now that I have given up cable, I heartily endorse this PSA….

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One interesting thing about this is that it was shown during movie intermissions, esp. at drive-ins (“sign the petition in the lobby of this theater”). I once saw a similar PSA in a collection of drive-in movie intermissions.
I had assumed some broadcast association was repsonsible for the anti-cable PSA, but now I suspect the movie theaters actually thought they had a lot to lose from people being able to see more movies on “Pay TV.”