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Worst Radio Spot of the Year

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RoddyFreeman

Charter cable is running a commercial for its NFL packages that makes me cringe. Some men, celebrating the start of football season, sing "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" off key. It's one of the worse spots I've ever heard on radio. And it airs incessantly.

Maybe I'd feel differently if it were the holiday season, but I doubt it.
 
RoddyFreeman said:
Charter cable is running a commercial for its NFL packages that makes me cringe. Some men, celebrating the start of football season, sing "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" off key. It's one of the worse spots I've ever heard on radio. And it airs incessantly.

Maybe I'd feel differently if it were the holiday season, but I doubt it.
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Charter is well known for poor commercials both TV and radio....horrible.
 
Roddy couldn't be more right. That spot is downright atrocious. The Office Depot back-to-school commercial with the child repeatedly squealing "Depot does!" also has to go. Thankfully, I'm not hearing that awful Proactiv spot with the dreadful female V/O ("You heard it!") anymore.
 
RoddyFreeman said:
Charter cable is running a commercial for its NFL packages that makes me cringe. Some men, celebrating the start of football season, sing "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" off key. It's one of the worse spots I've ever heard on radio...
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Hey, it could be even worse... they could be using this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K37BhzM0I8I
 
RoddyFreeman said:
Charter cable is running a commercial for its NFL packages that makes me cringe. Some men, celebrating the start of football season, sing "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" off key. It's one of the worse spots I've ever heard on radio. And it airs incessantly.

Maybe I'd feel differently if it were the holiday season, but I doubt it.
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It did get your attention!
 
as secondchoice points out, it did get your attention. and by the number of posts here it looks like a successful ad campaign. of course that's non-scientific!!

on the other hand how many "great" ads were on, that when you tried to remember who the sponsor was you couldn't remember?

-amos
 
amos said:
as secondchoice points out, it did get your attention. and by the number of posts here it looks like a successful ad campaign. of course that's non-scientific!!

on the other hand how many "great" ads were on, that when you tried to remember who the sponsor was you couldn't remember?

-amos
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Yes, it got my attention, but just getting my attention does not give me any desire to buy. It seems to me that the product, an NFL package, would appeal to certain people and get response no matter the form in which it was communicated. That's not so true with most other products.

Completely different subject but, years ago when I lived in New York, Crazy Eddie's, an electronics store, used to have screaming commercials, but they were fun, and everyone loved them. They used to end the commercial by saying, "Open Sunday except Paramus." Well, a secretary where I worked told me she thought Paramus was a holiday.
 
RoddyFreeman said:
amos said:
as secondchoice points out, it did get your attention. and by the number of posts here it looks like a successful ad campaign. of course that's non-scientific!!

on the other hand how many "great" ads were on, that when you tried to remember who the sponsor was you couldn't remember?

-amos
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Yes, it got my attention, but just getting my attention does not give me any desire to buy. It seems to me that the product, an NFL package, would appeal to certain people and get response no matter the form in which it was communicated. That's not so true with most other products.

Completely different subject but, years ago when I lived in New York, Crazy Eddie's, an electronics store, used to have screaming commercials, but they were fun, and everyone loved them. They used to end the commercial by saying, "Open Sunday except Paramus." Well, a secretary where I worked told me she thought Paramus was a holiday.
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roddy i don't disagree with you. the late night tv ads that used to run in charlotte for a used car lot "pick up the phone. give us a call" were so obnoxious that i would have NEVER bought a car from him. but i wasn't in the market for a car, either. if i was interested in a car (or an NFL package) i might think differently.

haha yes i remember crazy eddie. a great cartoon (in playboy) had a customer telling the crazy eddie salesperson "across the street, where they make no claim of mental instability, this item is cheaper."

and speaking of paramus, when jay thomas went to 99x he would mispronounce it as in "pair a (Of) moose"

-amos
 
The Charter NFL ad is hideous. But it has helped me turn off the radio quicker than anything this side of Sandy Shumate's voice, and I thought that screeching had gotten my off button to warp speed.

The quaint "NFL is back" TV ads are also junk. Anybody who cares about football already knows the games are on, and the rest don't care and don't need to see the ads.

Now that Southwest is coming in, we've either heard the end of the Airtran ads or it's coming soon. Sure, most of them have been athlete endorsements by people who have been indicted or who's name nobody can pronounce, or who left town for another team as soon as the ads started playing, and yes, that is odd that it happened so often, but there have also been the spiffy overlord voice ads. I like the actress in the GPS ad. And the sports trivia guys sitting on a plane pretending to be dad and son. Aw. And -oh heck, Airtran has never had a good radio ad. I will miss them.
 
You want obnoxious commercials, look no further than Flo from Progressive Insurance. Every time I hear a Progressive commercial on the radio or see a banner ad for Progressive, I remember, all right - remember to change the station, or hit "refresh" on the browser, so another ad can load!

taylorengineer said:
Just what do you have against beautiful Sundays??
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Nothing necessarily - the song is okay, but I'm not sure how it would hold up in a campaign for the NFL - most of whose games are played on Sundays... ::)
 
Flo is hot! You must be gay or something......

Have we already forgotten about Shane Company?

G
 
Negative and negative. There's "hot", and then there's "so annoying, it overrides hot".
 
Shane Co. never bothered me, and that's going back to the days when they were in the "Gaslight Tower, Peachtree Street, Downtown Atlanta". Funny was when 96 Rock's Mark McCain's "Wake Up Crew" mixed Tom Shane's voice from the commercials with Dr. Ruth Westheimer's voice from her "Sexually Speaking" show (which 96 Rock was running in the PM) to make a funny mock conversation between the two.

D. Geller, OTOH, always was annoying--bad impersonations and a low-rent approach that made a low-rent store look even moreso. I only know of two people who ever bought anything there.

Who remembers Hi-Fi Kenny's from the early-mid 80s? "Stereo speakers over 4 feet tall TEN DOLLARS!" I remember going to their store, ONCE, and literally all they had was JUNK. Turntables with the tonearm torn off. No-name speakers that looked like they fell out of the back of a random white van. I couldn't tell if the place was a front or something. I was happy when they "Lost our lease! Closing our doors FOREVER!!!"

The current annoying commercial for me is Just Brakes. Just the way they write and then disclaim their commercials sounds like a big bait and switch.

Speaking of Southwest and AirTran, I miss the ValuJet "Captain Valu" spots where they would not-so-subtly slam Delta.
 
The worst radio spot for me is the Pepsi ad with the dumbed down elves talking about Santa. Whoever came up with that campaign-I can't really figure out who is being targeted, but it certainly isn't me.
Not that I drink Pepsi or Coke, but this would send me running away from their product.
I did like the QT drink commercials from a few years back, esp the one with the kid calling the dad's boss "Mr. Weiner" I wish I could find a recording of that one!
 
Say what you want about the Progressive "Flo" ads, but I'd be happy with 1% of the residuals that she, Stephanie Courtney - a former stand-up comic - is now enjoying. She is banking, literally, hundred$ of thou$and$, thanks to several years of those ads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flo_(Progressive_Insurance)
 
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