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First TV advert

First TV advert
Who
Bulova
Where
United States
When
27 June 1941

The first TV advert was an ad for Bulova watches, appearing on the New York station known then as WNBT (now WNBC), and which premiered on 1 July 1941.

The first ever television advert appeared at 2:29 pm on 1 July 1941 on US channel NBC (then called WNBT-TV). The ground-breaking 10-second commercial, broadcast immediately before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies, was for watchmaker Bulova and featured an image of a clock superimposed over a map of the USA along with the caption “America runs on Bulova time".

Bulova paid a mere $9 for the placement of their advert.