Commercial advertisements for local business are also inserted in the programming at the headend ( the individual channels, which are distributed nationally, also have their own nationally oriented commercials ).

In 2005 Devo recorded a new version of " Whip It " to be used in Swiffer television commercials, a decision they have said they regretted.

Since most public broadcasting operations don't have to make a profit, no commercials are necessary.

Some animated characters in commercials have survived for decades, such as Snap, Crackle and Pop in advertisements for Kellogg's cereals.

Some stations have the capability to interrupt the network through the local insertion of TV commercials, station IDs, and emergency alerts.

It will also have to remove television commercials and their website must be clean of any misleading nutritional and health claims.

The breed has become a favourite of animal trainers because of its nature and intelligence, and in recent years these cats have appeared in Hollywood films and television commercials.

He would also slip in spoof commercials and sponsor's announcements for " Dobbiroids ", the wonder horse rejuvenator, or " Dobbimist " horse deodorant ( a cure for UFO: under-fetlock odour ), or " Dobbitex " horse cummerbunds-he would claim that he'd been " got at ": paid money to plug the product, because he claimed to be only paid a pittance as a senior BBC announcer, " I want things, I need things, things the other radio announcers have got!

* R2-D2 and C-3PO have appeared in numerous Star Wars-based commercials, television specials, and productions.

The studios have played host to many productions over the years from huge blockbuster films to television shows, commercials and pop promos and is well known as the home of the Carry On ..., Superman and James Bond film franchises.

Cap ' n Crunch TV commercials have aired since 1963.

The Cap ' n Crunch commercials have historically used basic cartoon animation by Hanna-Barbera animation ; however, Vinton Studios produced a claymation ad during the 1980s.

Networks began to feel that they could not afford to have commercials between programs because it would detract viewers from staying tuned in to their channel.

An abundance of historic buildings, autumn leaf color and attractive natural surroundings have made Nevada City an ongoing setting for film and television productions, including feature films and commercials.

Various commercials, including a Super Bowl Budweiser commercial, have been filmed in downtown Santa Paula.

Not only have video clips submerged into the world of TV commercials and music videos but it is now also a popular form of entertainment and a hobby for people called " Vloggers " ( video blog creators ).

Both locations and surrounding areas have been used for television series, featured films, music videos, and television commercials.

The cats have been featured in her commercials for Kmart, on her television show, Martha Stewart Living, and in her magazine, such as the cover of the February 1999 issue.

As a group, Mr. Children have not endorsed products by physically appearing in television commercials or printed media advertisements.

Broken Hill, its neighbour Silverton, and the surrounding desert have served as the backdrop for shooting numerous movies, television programs, video-clips and commercials.

Announcers usually are voice actors that read prepared scripts, but in some cases, they have to ad-lib commentary on the air when presenting news, sports, weather, time, and television commercials.

McDonaldland and the supporting characters have been dropped from McDonald's marketing since 2003, but Ronald McDonald is still seen in commercials and in Happy Meal toys.

Since Nintendo did not have many products, it made only a few commercials a year, meaning the quality had to be phenomenal.

Waits has steadfastly refused to allow the use of his songs in commercials and has joked about other artists who do ( commenting " If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn't he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it ?").

In recent years, the McDonaldland premise has largely been phased out of advertising campaigns, with modern commercials usually just depicting Ronald alone in real-world situations with real children, whether he visits a local restaurant or goes to visit sick children at Ronald McDonald House.

Each of the 20 episodes of The Sandbaggers runs just under 50 minutes without commercials.

While " The Cage " has a running time of approximately 63 minutes, " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", ran just over 55 minutes with additional footage and formatting later cut to reduce it to the usual series running time of around 50 minutes ( excluding commercials ).

He also performed in commercials, including a memorable series for Lay's potato chips during its long-running " Betcha can't eat just one " campaign with Lahr as " Aunt Tillie.

), and not just traditional television commercials.

Early commercials in 2003 promoted the show as just Most Extreme Elimination with the initials MXE.

The film's original trailer on UK television commercials, never shown any clips of the film but just a blank screen featuring the word " SCANDAL " in white text, with a voiceover saying " Its a scandal !, keep watching !".

In later years, In numerous commercials, the Kid and Sue ( more often just Sue ) would get into trouble ( at which point Sue would nonchalantly shout " Help, Kid ...") and the Cheerios Kid, after eating his cereal to " power up ", would quickly deal with the problem, often in a rather creative way.

* The GEICO insurance company ran a series of television commercials in which a victim in a disadvantaged situation hears their fate from the antagonist, that they have good news, only the good news is for the antagonist ( The antagonist will usually say as the punchline, " I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO ").

He signed a number of endorsements and appeared in commercials in Australia, most famously in his ads for the new breakfast cereal " Nutri-Grain ", where his catchphrase " It's just like a cricket bat with holes " struck a chord.

Tony frequently appears in American commercials as an animated character in a live-action world, frequently with his drawn image rotoscoped over a live character, such as an extreme sports athlete, allowing Tony to not just appear in live-action, but interact as well.

The very last show on Atlantic was presented by Enda Caldwell on Thursday 20 December 2001, This was followed by a Tribute show produced by Enda Caldwell and Eric Murphy celebrating the station's 12 year history of broadcasting and featuring classic airchecks of each year of Atlantic 252's history then the station went into automation and continued broadcasting music without continuity and just commercials that had been booked for the month of January 2002 for about two to three weeks afterwards until the carrier fell dead and the music stopped playing.

These versions were re-edited so that they would come in at just under an hour long, featured other segments from Square One TV as " commercials ", and newly-created end credits, among other differences.

The shows contain no commercials, just a small gap of blank video to allow the local station to insert their own.

The black actor tells Mike he has just landed a role in an international commercial, but Mike says he doesn ’ t want to do commercials because no great actors have had to do commercials.

Most commercials end with the punch line, " I just lost another loan to Ditech!

' We just kept doing what we thought was funny, we didn't go start making commercials or anything.

Since January 1, 2012, Fox Movie Channel ( which airs old 20th Century Fox movies uncut and without commercials ) airs every day from 3 A. M ./ 12 A. M. to 3 P. M ./ 12 P. M. ET / PT, with the FXM ( FX Movie Channel ) block ( which telecasts newer movies ( not just from the 20th Century Fox library, but also from the film libraries of Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, etc.

She has been seen in commercials for Kit Kat ( playing a snobby socialite daughter ) as well as in a commercial for Special K cereal ( as a devastated girl who just broke up with her boyfriend ) and also a Leon's commercial.