The 50 Greatest Local TV Commercials

The 50 Greatest Local TV Commercials

As listed by Phat Phree. And by greatest, they mean not!

In 1941, WNBT, the New York City NBC affiliate, broadcast the first television commercial. It was an ad for Bulova Watches that ran before a Brooklyn Dodgers game which showed a watch superimposed over a map of the United States. A voice over proclaimed, "America runs on Bulova time." It cost the company nine dollars.

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