Continuing on the theme of TV snark . . . behold this 1955 ad in Broadcasting-Telecasting magazine, a sort of birth announcement for my hometown's second television station, WBRZ.
Although, it does kind of tell you much of what you need to know about Channel 2. And Baton Rouge.
First, there is a difference between what you come to expect out of Madison Avenue and what you come to expect out of the Manship family. Second, the Manships never would have hired Don Draper. Third, this ad is enough to make Freddy Rumsen pee his pants.
THERE ARE Mad Men, and then there are madmen.
"Advertise on Channel 2. We'll give your account to the crazed love child of Count Macabre and Orene Muse!"
You don't get this because you had to be there. Trust me.
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