Mauricio Pineda
The TV spot history. Before television or “radio images”, the
brothers Lumiere made a testimonial for “bleach” in 1898, by 1904 they did in
infomercial for “Moet de Chandon”.
Television was born in some markets as a
commercial way for ABC, NBC, CBS, but also state television emerged like the
English BBC, Italian RAI, and Spanish RTVE among other. Let’s not forget religious television, attracting
donations to function; CBN, TBN, among others. In the beginning commercial
television only knew sponsorship, which guaranteed the brand’s presence in a
series of programmed spaces that for the length of a season (fall to spring)
and financed by the company, usually with a high advertising investment
capacity, like car makers and personal care products to mention some. During those days, TV commercials had few
participation spaces for announcer given to the high prices of sponsorships,
even when many of the announcers wanted to be there.
By 1954 everything changed in New
York, when in the French restaurant Baroque
from 53rd street, eastern Manhattan, Roser Reeves and his coworkers Ted
Bates & Co. made a storyboard draft which became the first TV spot. It
lasted about 60 seconds and it was announcing “Anacin” a pain reliever pill. It wasn’t pretty at all but it was very
effective and the sales increased in unimaginable numbers.
The TV spots went onto having the standard
30 seconds and created the possibility to be promoted on television without an
announcer. It’s from here on that two common spaces emerge in TV placing
commercials; Commercial “breaks” are
the spaces in between two shows, while one ends and another is about to start
and the “Carrier” the commercial
break between two blocks of the same TV show.
There is a difference between a commercial
TV spot and other short messages seen on TV, such as the channel’s image (ABC
Family “A new kind of family” or TNT “Drama, Period.”) and the channel’s
promotional ads, called “promos” which
inform about the channel’s programming.
Nowadays, one of the most remembered and
awarded TV spots, was directed was Ridley
Scott in 1984 for Apple Computers,
about the launching of a new personal computer called Machintosh. The agency in charge was Chiat/Day and about $400.000 was invested in the creating of it. It
was only transmitted once during the Super
Bowl XVII on January 12, 1984.
During Apple’s Mac’s 20th
anniversary, a digitalized version was created and included an Ipod. It
suggested a new way to enjoy music in MP3 files, this time I was not televised,
only available on the Internet.
Best wishes and Be safe, until a next entry.
Don’t be afraid to tell us what your
favorite TV spot is. Share your opinion and we might include it here.Before television or “radio images”, the
brothers Lumiere made a testimonial for “bleach” in 1898, by 1904 they did in
infomercial for “Moet de Chandon”.
Television was born in some markets as a
commercial way for ABC, NBC, CBS, but also state television emerged like the
English BBC, Italian RAI, and Spanish RTVE among other. Let’s not forget religious television, attracting
donations to function; CBN, TBN, among others. In the beginning commercial
television only knew sponsorship, which guaranteed the brand’s presence in a
series of programmed spaces that for the length of a season (fall to spring)
and financed by the company, usually with a high advertising investment
capacity, like car makers and personal care products to mention some. During those days, TV commercials had few
participation spaces for announcer given to the high prices of sponsorships,
even when many of the announcers wanted to be there.
By 1954 everything changed in New
York, when in the French restaurant Baroque
from 53rd street, eastern Manhattan, Roser Reeves and his coworkers Ted
Bates & Co. made a storyboard draft which became the first TV spot. It
lasted about 60 seconds and it was announcing “Anacin” a pain reliever pill. It wasn’t pretty at all but it was very
effective and the sales increased in unimaginable numbers.
The TV spots went onto having the standard
30 seconds and created the possibility to be promoted on television without an
announcer. It’s from here on that two common spaces emerge in TV placing
commercials; Commercial “breaks” are
the spaces in between two shows, while one ends and another is about to start
and the “Carrier” the commercial
break between two blocks of the same TV show.
There is a difference between a commercial
TV spot and other short messages seen on TV, such as the channel’s image (ABC
Family “A new kind of family” or TNT “Drama, Period.”) and the channel’s
promotional ads, called “promos” which
inform about the channel’s programming.
Nowadays, one of the most remembered and
awarded TV spots, was directed was Ridley
Scott in 1984 for Apple Computers,
about the launching of a new personal computer called Machintosh. The agency in charge was Chiat/Day and about $400.000 was invested in the creating of it. It
was only transmitted once during the Super
Bowl XVII on January 12, 1984.
During Apple’s Mac’s 20th
anniversary, a digitalized version was created and included an Ipod. It
suggested a new way to enjoy music in MP3 files, this time I was not televised,
only available on the Internet.
Best wishes and Be safe, until a next entry.
Don’t be afraid to tell us what your
favorite TV spot is. Share your opinion and we might include it here.Before television or “radio images”, the
brothers Lumiere made a testimonial for “bleach” in 1898, by 1904 they did in
infomercial for “Moet de Chandon”.
Television was born in some markets as a
commercial way for ABC, NBC, CBS, but also state television emerged like the
English BBC, Italian RAI, and Spanish RTVE among other. Let’s not forget religious television, attracting
donations to function; CBN, TBN, among others. In the beginning commercial
television only knew sponsorship, which guaranteed the brand’s presence in a
series of programmed spaces that for the length of a season (fall to spring)
and financed by the company, usually with a high advertising investment
capacity, like car makers and personal care products to mention some. During those days, TV commercials had few
participation spaces for announcer given to the high prices of sponsorships,
even when many of the announcers wanted to be there.
By 1954 everything changed in New
York, when in the French restaurant Baroque
from 53rd street, eastern Manhattan, Roser Reeves and his coworkers Ted
Bates & Co. made a storyboard draft which became the first TV spot. It
lasted about 60 seconds and it was announcing “Anacin” a pain reliever pill. It wasn’t pretty at all but it was very
effective and the sales increased in unimaginable numbers.
The TV spots went onto having the standard
30 seconds and created the possibility to be promoted on television without an
announcer. It’s from here on that two common spaces emerge in TV placing
commercials; Commercial “breaks” are
the spaces in between two shows, while one ends and another is about to start
and the “Carrier” the commercial
break between two blocks of the same TV show.
There is a difference between a commercial
TV spot and other short messages seen on TV, such as the channel’s image (ABC
Family “A new kind of family” or TNT “Drama, Period.”) and the channel’s
promotional ads, called “promos” which
inform about the channel’s programming.
Nowadays, one of the most remembered and
awarded TV spots, was directed was Ridley
Scott in 1984 for Apple Computers,
about the launching of a new personal computer called Machintosh. The agency in charge was Chiat/Day and about $400.000 was invested in the creating of it. It
was only transmitted once during the Super
Bowl XVII on January 12, 1984.
During Apple’s Mac’s 20th
anniversary, a digitalized version was created and included an Ipod. It
suggested a new way to enjoy music in MP3 files, this time I was not televised,
only available on the Internet.
Best wishes and Be safe, until a next entry.
Don’t be afraid to tell us what your
favorite TV spot is. Share your opinion and we might include it here.Before television or “radio images”, the
brothers Lumiere made a testimonial for “bleach” in 1898, by 1904 they did in
infomercial for “Moet de Chandon”.
Television was born in some markets as a
commercial way for ABC, NBC, CBS, but also state television emerged like the
English BBC, Italian RAI, and Spanish RTVE among other. Let’s not forget religious television, attracting
donations to function; CBN, TBN, among others. In the beginning commercial
television only knew sponsorship, which guaranteed the brand’s presence in a
series of programmed spaces that for the length of a season (fall to spring)
and financed by the company, usually with a high advertising investment
capacity, like car makers and personal care products to mention some. During those days, TV commercials had few
participation spaces for announcer given to the high prices of sponsorships,
even when many of the announcers wanted to be there.
By 1954 everything changed in New
York, when in the French restaurant Baroque
from 53rd street, eastern Manhattan, Roser Reeves and his coworkers Ted
Bates & Co. made a storyboard draft which became the first TV spot. It
lasted about 60 seconds and it was announcing “Anacin” a pain reliever pill. It wasn’t pretty at all but it was very
effective and the sales increased in unimaginable numbers.
The TV spots went onto having the standard
30 seconds and created the possibility to be promoted on television without an
announcer. It’s from here on that two common spaces emerge in TV placing
commercials; Commercial “breaks” are
the spaces in between two shows, while one ends and another is about to start
and the “Carrier” the commercial
break between two blocks of the same TV show.
There is a difference between a commercial
TV spot and other short messages seen on TV, such as the channel’s image (ABC
Family “A new kind of family” or TNT “Drama, Period.”) and the channel’s
promotional ads, called “promos” which
inform about the channel’s programming.
Nowadays, one of the most remembered and
awarded TV spots, was directed was Ridley
Scott in 1984 for Apple Computers,
about the launching of a new personal computer called Machintosh. The agency in charge was Chiat/Day and about $400.000 was invested in the creating of it. It
was only transmitted once during the Super
Bowl XVII on January 12, 1984.
During Apple’s Mac’s 20th
anniversary, a digitalized version was created and included an Ipod. It
suggested a new way to enjoy music in MP3 files, this time I was not televised,
only available on the Internet.
Best wishes and Be safe, until a next entry.
Don’t be afraid to tell us what your
favorite TV spot is. Share your opinion and we might include it here.
Be safe,
Mauricio Pineda
Traslations by MJ Sandoval.