After 50 Years of the Bubonic Plague, Things Can Only Get Better
As every advertising person under the age of 65 knows, television is advertising and advertising is television. And since there's nobody in advertising over 43, that means everybody. So when people discover that I worked in advertising before the arrival of commercial television, the response is incredulity. If television is advertising, how can there have been advertising before there was television? Let's move on to something more interesting.
The 50th anniversary of the first commercially funded television broadcast (Thursday, 22 September 1955) has been recently and relentlessly covered:...