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chris319:

--- Quote ---Yeah, but few game shows say you will win a check, but, of course, you do.
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The check is the form of payment, not the prize. Once you've cashed the check, what have you got? Money!


--- Quote ---There are weasel ways of doing it, anyway. You say "You can win 100,000 nickels...that's right....5 THOUSAND DOLLARS!" go on and do your hypothetical nickel promo and still be able to cut a check for 5K.
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Weasel ways don't go over very big with network merchandising departments.

chris319:

--- Quote --- 1. To cover part of the cost from our friends at the Treasery
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What cost? I just said the government doesn't advertise currency.


--- Quote ---2. So on AFHV when they were doing their whole $20 bill thing they had to give the twenties?
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Huh?


--- Quote ---3. Doesn't CBS say that they have the right to substitue prizes of "equal or greater value" in the wavers?
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We just had this discussion with regard to Let's Make a Deal. If the zonk prize were a baby elephant, the show might offer the contestant who won it a color TV and $100 cash and they would usually accept the offer. But if the contestant said they wanted the baby elephant, the show was obligated to deliver a baby elephant. In this case TPIR could offer a check for $5,000 but would have to be prepared to deliver 100,000 nickels.

Dan Sadro:
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Nov 11 2003, 09:56 PM\']
--- Quote --- 1. To cover part of the cost from our friends at the Treasery
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What cost? I just said the government doesn't advertise currency.[/quote]
For some reason, there were a few commercials with Kermit the Frog promoting the state quarters, as well as print ads:


--- Quote ---U.S. Mint Announces Appointment of Kermit the Frog as 'Spokesfrog' for the 50 State Quarters(tm) Program
Kermit the Frog Speaks Out on the Nation's 'Changing Change'

NEW YORK, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Mint today announced a three-year agreement with The Jim Henson Company in which Kermit the Frog, the legendary television and film celebrity, will serve as the official ``spokesfrog'' for America's 50 State Quarters Program. Kermit the Frog will soon be starring in broadcast and print commercials for the 50 State Quarters Program.

[...]Each quarter is produced for only 10 weeks, so consumers are encouraged to keep checking their pocket change regularly to collect each of the state quarters. For more information on the 50 State Quarters and how to collect them, visit the Mint's web site at http://www.USMINT.gov.
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SOURCE: http://www.coinmall.com/ccw/ccw19.htm

That suggests to me that the U.S. Mint does indeed advertise currency.

HYHYBT:

--- Quote ---At the risk of going off-topic: the redesigned $20 bill is not being received very well. It's being rejected by vending machines, and it took only one week for counterfeits to be discovered. Back to the drawing board.
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All redesigned money is rejected by vending machines until the vending machines are updated to recognize it. And any bill can be counterfeited. The point is to make currency so that most counterfeits are obviously fake. As far as that goes, they're certainly no *worse* than the previous design.

As for not publicizing the state quarters, they didn't do enough of it *before* the first ones were released. The first I heard of it was when one turned up in a till at work when they'd been out a month, and none of us or the customer who got it had heard anything about it. We figured it must be real because who would make fake quarters, and who would do it so badly as to put a horse instead of an eagle on the back?

There was that stupid commercial for the dollar coin that had the George Washington picture off the dollar bill talking about it.

chris319:

--- Quote ---That suggests to me that the U.S. Mint does indeed advertise currency.
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You need to learn the difference between paid advertising and public service announcements. The latter have been around for decades and one of the most prominent clients is Smokey the Bear. The U.S. Forestry Service has never paid one nickel for air time or ad space for Smokey the Bear because the time/space is donated by radio and TV stations, networks, magazines, etc. It is conceivable that Henson is donating the cost of producing the PSAs and deducting the cost as a contribution to a non-profit entity.

The Ad Council handles most public service advertising. Here is a mission statement from them:

--- Quote ---The Ad Council is a private, non-profit organization that marshals volunteer talent from the advertising and communications industries, the facilities of the media, and the resources of the business and non-profit communities to deliver critical messages to the American public. The Ad Council produces, distributes and promotes thousands of public service campaigns on behalf of non-profit organizations and government agencies in issue areas such as improving the quality of life for children, preventive health, education, community well being, environmental preservation and strengthening families.
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It is very unlikely that Treasury has a budget for paid advertising on TPIR or anywhere else, but TPIR could give the nickels exposure as a prize, free of charge, as a public service. This is precisely what Barker does when you see puppy dogs on the show and Barker talks about the animal shelter they came from.

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