[ SECRET POST #2086 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2086 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Four)

[mekkio]

An informerical a half hour long commercial for a single product that tries to pose itself as a talk show of some sorts. They usually air both very late at night or very early in the morning after regular television programming ends. (It used to be in the US, stations would stop airing programs after a certain hour, like midnight and would go static. Now they sell those hours where they are off air to companies that have informercials.)

Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Four)

[kathkin]

I don't think we have those. Both questions answered, then!

Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Four)

[(Anonymous)]

Since over-the-air broadcast television in the US involves local stations that are affiliated with networks (or not) rather than some kind of centrally controlled, standardized national programming, infomercials just might be far more of a thing here than in other countries.

I've heard that local stations usually have low profit margins and other than their own local news shows and a certain amount of local advertizing, they don't have a lot of options for making a profit other than by selling time that the networks they are affiliated with don't use rather than going off the air completely. (Note how some PBS stations do go off the air at night.) I'd imagine that if local affiliates did not exist, then we probably wouldn't have infomercials because the national networks wouldn't have any need to air them (although you do occasionally see cable channels do it, so maybe sometimes they would?)