Thursday, April 24, 2014

Telebision Advertising

Someone else watches MeTV, a channel I'm as likely as not to watch from the hundreds available:
No one who watches this channel needs a car or a videogame or a place to get a good hamburger or a personal grooming aid to make them look better or a vacation or a beer. I don't even see commercials for Coca-friggin'-Cola. Someone kind of presumes that if you're watching their channel, you must be ill, injured or unemployed.

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So what elements make a TV show more appealing to people who are out of work? What kind of viewing attracts the incontinent? The people who need catheters? Based on watching MeTV, it seems that guest appearances by Burt Mustin and Alice Ghostley must do something.

1 comment:

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

I think it's largely time of day- most wage slaves are working 9 to 5, or within an hour or two of that range.