Now it seems like they do, but they haven’t always. Often it was, “We now join our regularly scheduled programing already in progress.” I remember one time the delay was about 15 minutes, leaving half of a 30 minute show I wanted to watch. Their regular programming began after about 10 minutes of commercials.
One time we had problems with our cable/internet service. The lines were on poles where we lived then. The tech came out and said their main line needed replaced. He said the squirrels, aka tree rats, liked chewing on the wires and damaged the line..
The Mouse on Mars. First the moon, then Mars. I wonder if it roared?