Monday, October 17, 2011

9416: Eat Shit. Watch Shit. Take Shit.


Advertising Age reported Mickey D’s is launching an in-store TV network. Great, now customers are encouraged to eat unhealthy food while watching television. What’s next, hard liquor sales and smoking sections?

McDonald’s Introducing In-Restaurant TV Network

Eight Minutes of Commercials Per Hour—and Less Than Two for McDonald’s

By Nat Ives

McDonald’s is introducing a TV network in its restaurants that will include content from Mark Burnett and BBC America, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

The fast-food chain will introduce the channel over the next few months to 800 restaurants in Southern California and Central California, where customers will watch on two 42-inch HDTVs visible from 70% of seats, the Times said. There will also be “quiet zones” available.

Commercials will represent about eight minutes per hour, of which only one-and-a-half minutes will go to McDonald’s commercials.

Programming will include segments such as “The McDonald’s Achievers,” profiling local high school and college athletes.

No comments:

Post a Comment