TelevisionAdvertising

    By Gary E. Sattler

    | 5:00PM 6/12/2009
    We've probably all had the experience of relaxing while quietly watching a movie, only to be blasted off the couch when a commercial message for life insurance or a male enhancement product came on at three times the decibel level of the movie we were watching. It's absolutely maddening, and it's...

    By Tom Barlow

    | 4:40PM 2/14/2008
    I have become the arch-enemy of the advertising world. And I didn't have to join a super-society to do so; all I had to do is order a DVR from my cable provider. (Yeah, I know I'm a late adopter. I'm thinking of getting me one of them "microwaves" next.) I love being on the dark side, too. My DVR,...