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TIL my local cable access show ran the same car dealership ad 14 times in one hour
Back in 1999 I was house sitting for my aunt in Dayton and she only had basic cable, so I landed on the public access channel. I started counting the identical Bob's Used Cars commercial with that awful synth jingle, and it played 14 times in 60 minutes straight. I called the station to ask if they knew and the guy said they sold ad blocks by the hour, no one ever watched anyway. Has anyone else ever counted a repeat ad on a local channel, or is this a Dayton special thing?
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michael_patel22d ago
Tbh that synth jingle thing reminds me of this mattress store ad we had in Toledo growing up, where the owner would just stare into the camera for like 20 seconds with no talking, dead silent. My brother and I used to mute the TV and do our own voiceovers for it, and one summer we taped every single airing on a VHS and got up to like 40 by August. It got to the point where we knew the exact second he'd blink. Local ads back then were a whole different kind of weird and I miss it.
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