Ad break celebrates 60 years of commercial TV in the UK,including Tony Hancock advertising Eggs, Cadburys Gorilla and an odd effort from Guinness When ITV became Britain’s second broadcaster on 22 September 1955, and it also gave birth to the irregular worship-dislike relationship the British public has with television advertising.
While frequently despising the current batch of commercials,TV audiences often have an astonishing affection for older adverts – an attitude which can be described as Marmite … appropriately enough because of a TV commercial.
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Source: theguardian.com