Unofficial Denver vs New England Live Thread - Ad Watching

[SonofThunder]

I'm here in South Carolina on Time Warner Cable and so far it has been a mudslinging contest in the advertisements. Newt's PAC after Mitt, Mitt's PAC after Newt. Nothing pro or anti Paul yet. I'll keep you posted.

(This is by far the most watched program in South Carolina this weekend.)

 

[Agorism]

 

[trey4sports]

nice thread idea. Hope we see some Santa Rita PAC ads.

 

[pauliticalfan]

Great thread! Please keep us posted with details!!!!

 

[Drex]

I look away and PATS score wow

 

[SonofThunder]

first commercial break - no political ads

 

[Drex]

first commercial break - no political ads

National ads or just SC ads?

 

[SonofThunder]

2nd commercial break, no political ads

I'm surprised. This is a huge opportunity for politicians, no ads yet

 

[SonofThunder]

National ads or just SC ads?

Zero political ads of any variety. I'll try to identify national ads but it's not always easy to tell.

On another note, looks like Denver hasn't gotten off the bus.

 

[SonofThunder]

3rd break, no political ads

 

[parocks]

Directv

Bud Light
Applebees
Ford
Criminal Minds

 

[SonofThunder]

4th break, still no political ads

All of the commercials so far seem to be national commercials (but again I don't really know). They are mostly ads for bad cable shows (Hardcore Pawn), Ford, Applebees, etc. No local businesses or anything. I'm very surprised the campaigns aren't all over this.

 

[SonofThunder]

5th break, still nothing

 

[parocks]

Nationwide insurance
a movie
cvs
goodwife

 

[SonofThunder]

what's your cable provider? what state are you in?

 

[parocks]

Those are National Ads.

There are probably very few local ads for sale.

Campaigns would buy local ads, if they were for sale. But there are very few of them for sale. If I would guess, I think you'll see some local ads during halftime.

 

[parocks]

You are watching your local CBS affiliate in South Carolina, correct?

CBS has sold most of the ads, and probably gives the local CBS affiliate some air time to sell as well.

 

[SonofThunder]

Yep.

I understand how the broadcast networks work, I'm just surprised that there have been no local ads yet. The affiliates usually get one or two ad inserts per break, which means that they haven't had anyone buy the time, which means that the default (national) ad runs.

OR, because of the anticipated ratings of this game, they haven't let the affiliate have any inserts. I would really doubt that but I haven't watched the NFL that closely this year so I don't know.

 

[eduardo89]

Oh wow! Person of Interest won a people's choice award for best new drama!


/uninteresting facts I saw on commercial break

 

[eduardo89]

Great interception!!!!!!!!