Article: History Of Infomercials

History Of Infomercials

It all began in the 1980?s. Ronald Regan was president and one of the many controversial things he did in that office was to deregulate the TV industry. Why did he do it? Well, as a conservative Republican he lived and breathed by the ?free market rule,? which stated that the government didn?t belong in business, and businesses should live and die by the success or failure of their own practices and market forces.



At the same time, cable TV was just starting its expansion into the American television marketplace, and that opened up a huge broadcast venue which simply didn?t exist beforehand. Anybody with any experience in the broadcast industry was starting his own channel and pretty soon cable channels were commonplace. The most successful channels at the time were religiou...
 

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