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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (79755)	11/12/1999 3:23:00 PM
From: L. Adam Latham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574005

ted: Re: But I am glad to hear that this one is funny. How did you get a sample tape? Are you in marketing/advertising? Do you know what programs they will run on starting 11/14? Suffice it to say that MPEG versions of the commercial, as well as November and December TV schedules are available (I assume leaked by AMD and/or their ad company, Hill, Holliday). Sorry, but I can't provide a link to either. The VAST majority (about 80%) of the runs are on ESPN, 15% or so are on ABC Monday Night Football, and the remaining few are on other ABC shows. Since Disney owns both ESPN and ABC, it looks like AMD got a volume package deal to go with DIS. The AMD press release made it seem like the commercials would be run on lots of prime-time popular shows, but the schedule is clearly aimed at the ESPN/Monday Night Football male viewer (are they the target audience for high-end, "geeky" computers?). Adam