1) animatic. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...A preliminary version of a television commercial in which animated cutout figures are used instead of live participants and real objects. anˇiˇmatic -ADJECTIVE...
2) 8867. London Times. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...American football is an occasion at which dancing girls, bands, tactical huddles and television commercial breaks are interrupted by short bursts of play. ATTRIBUTION:...
3) 4584. Gerald R Ford, 38th US President. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations.
1988
...38th US President QUOTATION: Richard Nixon was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial—for Gillette. ATTRIBUTION: At Humor and the Presidency...
4) 11359. Chaplin, Charlie. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Chaplin), A King in New York, after barely being able to drink a glass of whiskey for a television commercial (1957)....
5) commercial. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...book, not a scholarly tome. 4. Sponsored by an advertiser or supported by advertising: commercial television. A paid advertisement on television or radio. comˇmercialˇly...
6) Berlusconi, Silvio. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...fortune was made in real estate during the 1960s. In the early 1980s Berlusconi founded commercial television networks that wooed the public away from the more stolid...
7) 8527. Henry Fairlie. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight. ATTRIBUTION: On US...
8) Sarnoff, David. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...American radio and television pioneer who proposed the first commercial radio receiver and in 1926 formed the National Broadcasting Company....
9) broadcasting. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in the 1920s but were interrupted by World War II. In 1996 there were more than 1,500 commercial television stations on the air. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting...
10) infomercial. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A relatively long commercial in the format of a television program. info(rmation) + (com)mercial....
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