Another day another Trivia

So last time it was why people show thumb to hitch hike their way. Andrew came up another question this time which took us considerable effort to find an answer. But I bet the question and answers were both worth it.

It started one afternoon; we were watching a holiday cartoon movie on television, I got up in a commercial break and pop came the question. He innocently asked and we all wondered why no one of us had thought about it before. What was the first commercial ever? Now that was really a tough one to answer. It was a question that could fit a game show category. So we set out to find the answer to his question. So this is what we found out. The first television commercial was a 10 second advertisement which was first aired on WNBT which was an affiliate station of NBC. It was shown before a baseball game between Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers. Since 1928 commercials were being aired, but they were mostly considered illegal. The first legal commercial Bulova Spot was aired on July 1 1941.

I was till date completely un-aware of this particular piece of information. Looks like our little Andrew is going to leave us more educated.