What do we hate most about watching TV? Most people will say advertisements and they will be right. Ads are loud, mostly boring (except the funny ones, which you can find on youtube but never see on TV) and always come at the wrong time. We take them for granted. However it was not until 1941 that the first advertisement ever was broadcast in the USA. Viewers had been living without them since first TV broadcasting started in 1928. Those 13 years in between must have been heaven we can only dream of. So how did the ‘blessing’ of TV advertising come upon us?
Moron question of the day.
Didn’t the Illuminati invent advertising to put their symbols in them (for no reason) and take over the world?
Nope. On July 1, 1941 the first TV advertisement ever aired before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies in the USA. It was only a 10 second clip by ‘Bulova’ watchmaker showing the map of the USA with their logo in the front and a voice saying ‘America runs on Bulova time!’ This ad placement cost a seemingly ridiculous (for our times) amount of 9$ for the company. However after using an inflation calculator on a website I found out that the buying value of $9 back then is equal to $144.05 now. Of course this is still nothing compared to what companies pay for 10 seconds on a major network now but you also have to understand that the viewer numbers an ad reached at that time were thousands of times smaller. Enjoy the ad and do not expect too much. These are the baby steps of the industry after all.
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