I know you're joking about your age, but the sponsor of "The Filntstones" was Winston, not Kools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81SMyZMoFL8 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81SMyZMoFL8> (I have no idea what's up with the aspect ratio on this one, but it does include the original closing credits, showing a flashing Winston billboard on the road into Bedrock.) > On Mar 8, 2021, at 11:18 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 11:07 AM Melissa P <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Apologies for the spotty input -- because grad school was decades ago. > > That said, if I remember correctly, a semester class was split into two > parts, one of them, the economics of advertising. > > Around the time that I was in school, the Federal Trade Commission was just > beginning to lift bans in certain industries that had previously been > prohibited from advertising on television. I remember long discussions in > class about those industries and even wrote a term paper on one of them -- > eyeglass advertising. The others I remember are the funeral industry, > lawyers, and -- (and non-OTC) pharmaceuticals. > > The theory: more advertising = more competition = lower prices (and more and > better information) for consumers. > > By now, I'm sure there's a ton of data and conclusions about how effective > lifting the bans has been. Benefits outweigh costs? Prices? I haven't a > clue because I haven't looked at the papers/studies. One effect is most > certainly the case: advertising by the legal profession has made it possible > for an oversupply of lawyers to find employment. > > Pharmaceuticals? Lower prices? Better health? Better informed consumers? > I don't know, but the literature is undoubtedly out there. > > Just thought I'd post because it seems that a lot of people don't remember a > time when morticians, optometrists, lawyers, and drug companies didn't > advertise on TV. > > I’m just old enough to remember Fred and Barney pausing from their antics in > Bedrock to smoke some smooth, refreshing Kool cigarettes. > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 10:50 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I know of at least two people who stayed up until 2am to watch it live on > some kind of dodgy stream somewhere. And yes, there were a lot of comments on > the volume of advertising the interview had. I don't know if it was more than > the usual 19-20 mins per hour, but that is higher than we get in the UK where > we were, until recently, regulated by the EU and still have limits on the > number of breaks (two mid-breaks in a one hour show, one break in a > half-hour), and the number of ads. > > But literally every person I talk to who's been to the US for vacation or > business will mention the pharmaceutical ads. It's worth noting that this has > been (at least until very recently - I believe Canada might now allow them) > an almost uniquely American thing. In the UK and EU, you only see drug > adverts for over the counter drugs. There's no "Ask your doctor" advertising. > There's also much hilarity at the nature of the ads - 30 seconds of benefits/ > 30 seconds of hideous side effects. I believe that this type of advertising > was only also legal in New Zealand. So yes - it's about as strange to us as > seeing cigarette advertising on TV. > > Of course, European health services are very different. In the UK, most > people are treated under the NHS and you basically don't get a choice about > drug treatment. Not every drug is even available - there are committees that > determine which drugs the NHS will make available. (So yes, really expensive > cancer drugs sometimes aren't available). And while some do have private > healthcare, it probably doesn't really allow for the kind of drug-picking > these ads are hypothesised on. Private healthcare is really to make sure you > don't have to wait for surgeries etc. It's probably not going to cover you > for an expensive cocktail of drugs otherwise unavailable on the NHS. > > The interview is airing in the UK tonight on ITV, although obviously it has > already been fully gutted by all the news programmes this morning. Personally > I'm getting more - small r- republican as the days go by. The Royal Family > needs to radically modernise or ship out. > > > Adam > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:16 PM PGage <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I am not in the target demo to watch an interview of Oprah interviewing > “Royals” (though the headline that they allege that someone at the palace was > worried their kids skin would be too dark sounds about right). > > I did find this Twitter thread interesting, in which Brits who were able to > watch the American broadcast of the interview are obsessed with how many > commercials Americans are exposed to for drugs. It is a reminder that > healthcare does not have to be a business. Would be nice to put more > restrictions again on direct-to-consumer advertising in the US. > > Also, I thought Oprah had a relationship with ABC, but it looks like this > interview was in CBS? > > https://twitter.com/ayeshaasiddiqi/status/1368901637604007939?s=21 > <https://twitter.com/ayeshaasiddiqi/status/1368901637604007939?s=21>-- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLU_ug38DOpU4%2B55BaNC_aFODog6AcUz3fqc-BC_B9ZnQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLU_ug38DOpU4%2B55BaNC_aFODog6AcUz3fqc-BC_B9ZnQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDr4hLEEa87ma1bhK6%3Dsy5F_ZeO9G0M_oG36oJ7V8FZhw%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDr4hLEEa87ma1bhK6%3Dsy5F_ZeO9G0M_oG36oJ7V8FZhw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPw-5ONQuS66DDs-EN3qV43zMJ%3DtXXLmwny1M63fNahpTQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPw-5ONQuS66DDs-EN3qV43zMJ%3DtXXLmwny1M63fNahpTQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > -- > Kevin M. 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