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The other day I was watching a show on Comedy Central and during the commerical break I saw a commerical for Charter Cable, but I have Time Warner Cable. Then just two days ago I saw the same Charter Cable commerical on A&E. Anyone know why this would be happening? I know I see Comcast commericals but thats on local channels which serves another city that has Comcast cable. But seeing a another cable companies commerical on a cable channel is much different.
 
First of all, it's "commercial," not "commerical."

Anyhoo, I have seen Charter commercials on Boston TV stations, which is primarily served by Comcast. Charter is the main cable company in the Worcester area, though. Is Charter available anywhere near where you live? And where would that be, approximately?
 
We only have Cable One service where I live, but Charter Media handles commercial TV duties here, so we see commercials for Charter Media all the time. Could that be it?
 
Were these ads being inserted locally by your local cable provider or were they airing on Comedy Central? I'm going to guess it was local.
 
Let's see - commercials for a foreign cable system... Are you getting your cable signal... I don't know... legally? ???
 
No I pay for it. I wouldn't do something stupid like that.

As for the commercials I am not sure. Im in SC. Charter cable is in NC around the Wilmington, NC area. And I don't think the Charter commercial would be a national one could it?
 
On a somewhat related subject, do any of your cable companies do long-form infomercials? Out west, Cable One tried some last year. Terrible acting, stereotypical family setups, just painful! Made we want to go dish.
 
searadiofreak said:
On a somewhat related subject, do any of your cable companies do long-form infomercials? Out west, Cable One tried some last year. Terrible acting, stereotypical family setups, just painful! Made we want to go dish.
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Ah, a fellow Cable One customer. Their commercials are the same here in the East and just awful. It's like watching scenes from Leave It to Beaver sometimes.

They have a commercial on right now in which a thirty-something mom is welcoming the friendly cable technician to her home to install Cable One. I like to mute the TV when that one comes on and add my own spicy dialogue. Bom chicka wah wah...
 
These local marketing agreements are common. In Atlanta, Charter and other smaller systems contract their ad-insertion sales to Comcast (under their Spotlight division). This makes it easier for Comcast to sell (most of) the entire DMA.

What you saw was an accident. The Charter ad was meant for a Charter headend, but when the ad was uploaded into the servers a couple of wrong buttons were pressed (those that tell which headends and channels for a particular ad to air on), and the ad ended up on the Time Warner headend that you are served by.
 
jal41 said:
These local marketing agreements are common. In Atlanta, Charter and other smaller systems contract their ad-insertion sales to Comcast (under their Spotlight division). This makes it easier for Comcast to sell (most of) the entire DMA.

What you saw was an accident. The Charter ad was meant for a Charter headend, but when the ad was uploaded into the servers a couple of wrong buttons were pressed (those that tell which headends and channels for a particular ad to air on), and the ad ended up on the Time Warner headend that you are served by.
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But how would it get into Time Warner's system from Charter's system?
 
whitfm said:
searadiofreak said:
On a somewhat related subject, do any of your cable companies do long-form infomercials? Out west, Cable One tried some last year. Terrible acting, stereotypical family setups, just painful! Made we want to go dish.
Click to expand...

Ah, a fellow Cable One customer. Their commercials are the same here in the East and just awful. It's like watching scenes from Leave It to Beaver sometimes.

They have a commercial on right now in which a thirty-something mom is welcoming the friendly cable technician to her home to install Cable One. I like to mute the TV when that one comes on and add my own spicy dialogue. Bom chicka wah wah...
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They must run the same stuff all over the country. I know the spot you are talking about. It must be the one where the cable guy says he "hasn't done anything yet", but the woman says something like "oh yes you have". My imagination ran wild! :eek:
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Ken said:
But how would it get into Time Warner's system from Charter's system?
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Because they are networked together. The same ad-insertion network is shared between the two systems as part of the local marketing agreement. When an ad is uploaded into the system, the technician doing the uploading specifies which headends the ad goes onto. In this case, the technician accidently selected the Time Warner system instead of the Charter system.

It is the same system serving both companies in that area. They are tied together.
 
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