TRIVIAL PURSUITS: For Which Product Was the First Television Commercial?

Every show on television in inundated with commercials.

For which product was the first television commercial?

 

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Bulova watches.

 

On July 1, 1941, at 2:29 p.m., the first television commercial appeared on screens in the U.S.

 

The ad for Bulova, a New York-based watch company, aired right before a Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies baseball game and cost $9.

 

You can view the commercial below.
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