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Title: WML? Question
Post by: gamed121683 on January 24, 2004, 04:02:40 PM

I recently acquired through a tape trade the very 1st episode of WML? from 1950. May I say how far we've come from game shows then to now WOW! Anyway, my question is was there any commerical breaks during the 1st show? Anyone here know?

Title: WML? Question
Post by: clarkh on January 26, 2004, 03:03:39 AM

I saw the first WML? at the Museum of TV and Radio, and it didn't have commercial breaks. In those early days, network TV was sold like network radio had been. A show was either fully sponsored by one or two advertisers, or it had no commercials at all. Individual "spot" advertising was limited to local station breaks (and to non-network shows). WML? didn't get a sponsor (Stopette deodorant) until either on or after the third episode.

Yrs.,
Clark H.
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