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The Superbowl is broadcasted nationwide for the first time.

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First Nike commercial airs.

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Apple releases first ad introducing the Macintosh personal computer

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Ted Bates leaves Benton & Bowels to start his own agency, taking the wonder bread and Colgate dental cream accounts.

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Dr. Pepper was founded in Waco, Texas.

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Credit: NBC experiments with a telecast of TV'S first baseball game, Princeton.

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Life published its first edition. It later becomes the first magazine to carry $100 million annually in advertising.

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Bass Pro prints and mails first Bass Pro catalogs.

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Advertising Age is lanced in Chicago.

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Columbia Broadcasting system, a second major radio network, is launched. The Federal Radio Commission is established.

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Credit: NBCRadio Corp. of America buys New York radio station WEAF from AT&T and renames it WNBC. It forms the first radio network with 19 stations within the year, and the national broadcasting Co. is launched.

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The Nation Better Business Bureau is organized

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In the largest account switch in history, IBM Corp.yanks it's business from scores of agencies worldwide and consolidates the entire account with O&M

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The Internet becomes a reality as five million users worldwide get online.

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Several companies merge to create Omnicom Group, the largest advertising company in the world.

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Gannett Co. launches USA Today.

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Internet advertising breaks the $2 billion mark and heads toward $3 billion as the industry, under prodding from Procter and Gamble, moves to standardize all facets of the industry

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AT&T station WEAF in New York offers 10 minutes of radio time to anyone who would pay $100. The Queensboro Corp., a long real estate firm, buys the first commercial in advertising history. Four: 15 spots at $50 apiece. Following the adds extolling Hawthorne Court, a new tenant-owned apartment complex in Jackson Heights, sales total thousands of daughters.

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WPP combines the media operations of JWT and O&M to form the Alliance, the largest U.S. media buyer with more than $4 billion.

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APTed Turner creates CNN

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The Federal Trade Commission Improvements Act gives the agency clear power to set industry rules and to take knowing violators to federal court to seek civil penalties.

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MTV debuts with frenetic video images that change the nature of commericals

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Wells, Rich, Greene is established. Mary Wells is the first woman to head a major agency.

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NBC drops its ban on comparative advertising. ABC and CBS do not follow suit until 1972.

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The Pepsi Generation kicks off the cola wars.

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The Associated Advertising Clubs of America, a group of agencies, advertisers and media representatives, is formed.

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Credit: Corbis/ Bertman KDKA, Pittsburgh, becomes the first radio Station in the U.S. and is the first to broadcast the result of the 1920 presidential election.

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Papert, Koenig, Lois is launched. Becomes first agency to go public.

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The National Association of Broadcasters bans subliminal ads.

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Barton, Durstine & Osborn opens in New York

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J. Walter Thompson Co. is the first agency to open an office in the U.K Campbell Soup Co. makes it's first advertising buy. The Association of American Advertisers, predecessor to the American of National Advertisers, is formed.

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Videotape recording makes prerecorded commercials possible.

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CBS becomes the largest advertising medium in the world.

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N.W Ayer hires its first full time copywriter. Ladies' Home Journal bans patent-medicine advertising.

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CBS opens its Television City production facilities in Hollywood.

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The George Batten Co. opens.

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The American Newspaper Publishers Association is formed.

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Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson and Mather, and Doyle Dane Bernbach open there doors.

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Procter & Gamble Co. begins advertising Ivory Soap with an unprecedented budget of $11,000.

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Credit: The American Association of Advertising Agencies, the first agency trade association, is established with 111 charter- members agencies

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JWT becomes the first agency to surpass $100 million in billings.

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Department store founder John Wanamaker is the first retailer to hire a full- time advertising copywriter, John E. Powers.

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The first convention of advertising agents is held in New York city.

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Council War Advertising Council is organized to help prepare voluntary ad campaigns for wartime efforts. Collects $350 million in free public service messages.

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Volney Palmer opens the first advertising agency in Philadelphia.

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Benjamin Franklin''s General Magazine prints the first American magazine ads.

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A group of large agencies forms the Association of New York Agents, predecessor to the American Association of Advertising Agencies.

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The first newspaper advertisement, an announcement seeking a buyer for an Oyster Bay, Long Island, estate, is published in the Boston News- Letter.