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Forgive me if this is old news and has been brouight up, but, tonight I was watching King of Queens on CBS and saw a commercial for Comcast Cable. It featured a clip of seventies Pyramid Winners Circle (I want to say 20K). The celeb and contestants category names were altered to fit the commercial. The clip was at least 30 seconds long and at the end it featured a neat Pyramid shaped Comcast graphic.
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[quote name=\'Rastaub\' date=\'Oct 3 2005, 11:52 PM\']Forgive me if this is old news and has been brouight up, but, tonight I was watching King of Queens on CBS and saw a commercial for Comcast Cable. It featured a clip of seventies Pyramid Winners Circle (I want to say 20K). The celeb and contestants category names were altered to fit the commercial. The clip was at least 30 seconds long and at the end it featured a neat Pyramid shaped Comcast graphic.
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Always someone coming late to the party.
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While watching "Two-and-a-half Men" on CBS last night, I also saw that commercial. (Yes it was the ABC $20,000 Pyramid) I don't know if it mattered at all that the two shows were from different networks or not?
Loretta Swit was the celebrity giving the clues. (voiced-over of course ;)
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[quote name=\'musicman\' date=\'Oct 4 2005, 10:57 PM\']While watching "Two-and-a-half Men" on CBS last night, I also saw that commercial. (Yes it was the ABC $20,000 Pyramid) I don't know if it mattered at all that the two shows were from different networks or not?
Loretta Swit was the celebrity giving the clues. (voiced-over of course ;)
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No, it doesn't matter the network. But it's very significant that Comcast is now doing national network advertising; I think they're now the only cable company that pretty much has a national footprint.
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Yep, Philadelphia, Mid-Atlantic, Detroit, Chicago, Northern Cali, Portland (heh, they employ my services), Seattle, the southeast US...yep they're branching out.
Doesn't the Com in Comcast stand for Communist...aka what their service is.
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[quote name=\'Rastaub\' date=\'Oct 3 2005, 10:52 PM\']Forgive me if this is old news and has been brouight up, but, tonight I was watching King of Queens on CBS and saw a commercial for Comcast Cable. It featured a clip of seventies Pyramid Winners Circle (I want to say 20K). The celeb and contestants category names were altered to fit the commercial. The clip was at least 30 seconds long and at the end it featured a neat Pyramid shaped Comcast graphic.
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"IT'S COMCASTIC!"
Since the only time I've seen the spot (which may be running just locally) I didn't look at the screen right at the beginning, is there a Sony copyright or trademark credit at the top of the spot for "Pyramid" in it (with perhaps a "watch Pyramid on GSN on Comcast Digital Cable")?
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Oct 5 2005, 12:32 PM\'][quote name=\'Rastaub\' date=\'Oct 3 2005, 10:52 PM\']Forgive me if this is old news and has been brouight up, but, tonight I was watching King of Queens on CBS and saw a commercial for Comcast Cable. It featured a clip of seventies Pyramid Winners Circle (I want to say 20K). The celeb and contestants category names were altered to fit the commercial. The clip was at least 30 seconds long and at the end it featured a neat Pyramid shaped Comcast graphic.
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"IT'S COMCASTIC!"
Since the only time I've seen the spot (which may be running just locally) I didn't look at the screen right at the beginning, is there a Sony copyright or trademark credit at the top of the spot for "Pyramid" in it (with perhaps a "watch Pyramid on GSN on Comcast Digital Cable")?
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I havent seen the commercial in question since I am in Time-Warner territory..(Canton-Akron, Ohio)..With Time-Warner gaining some of Adelphia's former systems it seems that nearly all of Ohio will eventually become Time-Warner Cable territory.
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They're gobbling everyone up, it seems....Rumor has it that the one cable company in York (Suscom) is being bought out by Comcast.....Although the name, I'm assuming, will probably change to Comcast, the name "Suscomcast" does have a neat ring to it...
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Might not be a national campaign, more like gobbling up the 1-2 min of each half-hour that the local station gets to sell in a network program.
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[quote name=\'SteveRep\' date=\'Oct 5 2005, 05:52 PM\']Might not be a national campaign, more like gobbling up the 1-2 min of each half-hour that the local station gets to sell in a network program.
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No, it's national. ABC's run the spot during Monday Night Football, along with a billboard saying you can watch MNF in high definition with Comcast.
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Oct 5 2005, 11:32 AM\']Since the only time I've seen the spot (which may be running just locally) I didn't look at the screen right at the beginning, is there a Sony copyright or trademark credit at the top of the spot for "Pyramid" in it (with perhaps a "watch Pyramid on GSN on Comcast Digital Cable")?
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Actually, no, just "Copyright 2005 Comcast Cable Communications". No chance of anything like that airing in Southeast Virginia considering Cox Cable is the dominant cable provider here.
Also, "Here is your first subject.... Go!" is edited out (from the version Troy Diggs posted on his LJ), apparently for fear of having to pay Dick Clark for the use of his voice. Still, it's amazing the things you can do with Adobe software these days. (Photoshop for the flippy boxes, Premiere for the editing and audio work, and AfterEffects for any special effects.)
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Never caught it until it was mentioned here, now I see it all the time. Clever little commercial. Would this episode be considered "public domain" or does Loretta Swit still get a "lovely" royalty check?
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To view the clip copy this into IE...
If you click this, youll get a page cant be displayed, just click in the address bar and press enter and it'll work
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John
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Oct 8 2005, 04:02 AM\']Never caught it until it was mentioned here, now I see it all the time. Clever little commercial. Would this episode be considered "public domain" or does Loretta Swit still get a "lovely" royalty check?
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The same for Ken Alden, since you hear a tiny bit of "Tunin' Up" in the background...don't see how this could be public domain...otherwise...wouldn't that make selling episodes of this original episode be allowed?
Thanks for posting, btw, John.
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Yeah, and probably the most cheesiest slogan a cable company can ever come up with. A much better one for Comcast would be this:
Comcast: It Sucks!
(btw I don't live anywhere near a Comcast market but that's what peeps tell me all the time about it anyway.) :-P
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[quote name=\'cacLA8383\' date=\'Oct 9 2005, 10:46 PM\']Comcast: It Sucks!
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Personally, I am all in favor of truth in advertising. Unfortunately, they want us to buy the service, so they'd never admit that.
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I'm guessing that Swit dubbed her own voice in the spot, so she's already getting money (it does sound like her). I'm also assuming that the contestant was laid over the background, since he looks just a mite too over-the-top in his 70s look.
And "Tuning Up" is stock library music, but Aldin still might be getting money from the spot.
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One thing interesting (or maybe Horanish-ly like nitpicky) is when they get to the second tier one of the boxes (I think the first $100 box) in the wide shot wasn't even photoshopped to look like the box shown in the winner's circle two shot.
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Here's what I'd like to know. Is that indeed Loretta Swit doing the voice-over?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Oct 10 2005, 06:55 PM\']Here's what I'd like to know. Is that indeed Loretta Swit doing the voice-over?
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I doubt it. The voice sounded to high to be Swit's voice-over.
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[quote name=\'musicman\' date=\'Oct 10 2005, 07:18 PM\'][quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Oct 10 2005, 06:55 PM\']Here's what I'd like to know. Is that indeed Loretta Swit doing the voice-over?
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I doubt it. The voice sounded to high to be Swit's voice-over.
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Agreed...too high for Loretta. Nice job they did on recreating the flipping-number timer graphic, and I say "recreate" because it started on :30, not :60, when the first category is revealed. [One news executive named Av Westin wrote some book, in which he referred to those flipping number devices as "DDU's", or "digital display units"]
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[quote name=\'byrd62\' date=\'Oct 10 2005, 07:06 PM\']One news executive named Av Westin wrote some book, in which he referred to those flipping number devices as "DDU's", or "digital display units"]
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They are known among us geeks as Solari readouts.
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Question: Is that footage from old-school ATGSer Mike Gilooly's 1978 appearance? I recall him winning $10K w/Swit on said ep.
Chuck Donegan (The Curious "Chuckie Baby")
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The other day, I caught a much longer version, which actually starts with a shot of Dick Clark giving Loretta and contestant the "pre-game" pep talk, and then the clock starts at :60 (it's only about :30 in the shorter commercial, and no DC). Also, the celebration is a bit longer, with a cheesy "1-800 Comcast" graphic flashed across the screen, patterned like one of the Pyramid trilons.
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[quote name=\'Brakus\' date=\'Oct 7 2005, 05:02 PM\']Also, "Here is your first subject.... Go!" is edited out (from the version Troy Diggs posted on his LJ), apparently for fear of having to pay Dick Clark for the use of his voice.
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Just saw a 60-second version of the spot with Dick Clark's image in it, so I guess not wanting to pay royalties didn't figure into it.