Sentences with phrase «infomercials at»

Despite the order, he aired the infomercials at least 32,000 times, according to prosecutors.

Your upstairs neighbors might even be hard of hearing and listening to infomercials at 3 am isn't your idea of a peaceful night's rest.

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Consumers marveled at being able to buy flowers, Veg - O - Matics and even cubic zirconium jewelry from the comfort of their homes thanks to infomercials and home shopping television networks.

It's hard not to scoff at some of the products you see pitched in infomercials — but the format deserves a little respect.

And as Jon Nathanson (now Slate columnist) pointed out in his exhaustive breakdown of the economics of infomercials on Priceonomics, in comparison, the U.S. network and cable industry was estimated at just $ 97 billion in 2013.

Or at least a new age of the infomercial.

Your infomercial will seldom be watched by anyone from beginning to end, so you must break up the half - hour show into separate, interesting segments with a «closer» or «call to action» at the end of each segment.

This nugget of sales wisdom, of course, would flourish into an infomercial empire, after Renker met Bill Guthy, who owned a condo at the Palm Springs, Calif., resort that Renker's family had managed to purchase.

In the ensuing decades, most infomercials came from the Vita - Mixes of the world: fledgling companies, often founded by former door - to - door salesmen and garage inventors, trying their hand at pitching viewers through TV.

Pitbull's sidekicks at the Toronto Real Estate Wealth Expo were infomercial king Tony Robbins, Boston firefighter - turned - house - flipper Dave Seymour, Flip or Flop reality star Christina El Moussa, and Jim Treliving, the Canadian equivalent of a Shark Tank host.

At one time their infomercials, featuring Dionne Warwick, flooded late night cable channels.

In all seriousness, though, recipe posts are a tough ball to juggle (at least for me) because while I know that tossing those keywords in there is important for SEO and what not, that doesn't change the fact that it makes me feel like a late night infomercial.

In the end, the infomercials actually had a bigger effect on the way I thought abortion worked, and there were a lot of anti-abortion commercials at the time.

Such services are often promoted at events that University of California, Davis, stem cell researcher Paul Knoepfler calls «infomercial seminars.»

You may have heard of kettlebell training as being the next big thing in infomercials, on videos or even at your gym.

I was skeptical at first because the idea of getting a great workout in only 4 minutes sounds like something I'd see on late - night infomercials.

Er, or at least wearing tank tops and shorts without total embarrassment, lol... Early Monday morning I happened to catch an Infomercial for the «Fast Results» Focus 25 Workout System and found it on Amazon.

So many different treatment options are bombarded at individuals through commercials, infomercials, radio, department store counters, dermatologist visits, and the Internet.

In addition, the complaint alleges that the defendants violated the FTC Act by using a deceptive format in at least two of their infomercials to suggest falsely that the infomercials were independent television programs, rather than paid commercial advertising.»

Just buy yourself a little larger karabiner (or use one that you got as a prize for excelling at skee ball) and in a few weeks, you too can look like Chuck Norris or Christie Brinkley (the folks from the infomercial)!»

Building mass and gaining strength is the last thing that most people are thinking when they see Youtube videos, infomercials, and up to 20 lb kettlebells sold at Target in the sporting goods section.

I scoffed and scoffed at those infomercials.

If you watch television late at night, you'll see dozens of infomercials for high - priced beds claiming they will provide you with a...

But I can't help but feel assaulted by the billboards and sides of buses and Happy Meals and dolls on the shelves at Target and commercials and then infomercials masquerading as bits on American Idol.

Synopsis: Once the night guard at the Museum of Natural History, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is now a successful purveyor of infomercial products.

Yet the film never shakes an overall sense of improvisatory amateurishness, and at worst sinks to the cloying level of a Sally Struthers infomercial.

At one time I wanted to be a full - time fitness professional; like the people you see on the infomercials who have trademarked an exercise method.

Yeoh's leading man, Chow Yun - Fat only gets his say in the disc's token «making - of» documentary, Unleashing the Dragon, but considering it had aired on Bravo during the film's theatrical release, it's less an informational piece than a glorified infomercial, offering too shallow a look at, among other things, gravity - defying action scenes.

One of the most lovey - dovey movies about a hotel ever made, the beautifully filmed but out - of - touch documentary «Always at the Carlyle» takes a potentially juicy subject — a swanky landmark that caters to celebrities and zillionaires — and turns it into a 90 - minute infomercial, with nary a revelation in sight.

At feature length, though, the film feels like an infomercial pitching another Kamen contraption, a vapor compression distiller.

The sequel to the 2006 hit Night at the Museum begins with a cursory change: Museum of Natural History night guard Larry Daley (sturdy Ben Stiller) quit his job and got rich quick selling his own products on late - night infomercials.

EXTRAS: There's a making - of featurette, alternate line readings / outtakes, a brief look at filming the high speed chase sequence and some silly infomercials.

While once upon a time being laid up with illness meant acquainting yourself with the pleasures of daytime TV or late - night infomercials (depending on what hours your ailment kept you up), nowadays the infirm have a whole universe of streaming options at their disposal to keep them company while they get well.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

On a related corporate note, check out this «informative» infomercial for SBAC, to take place at UConn: http://events.uconn.edu/event/31233/2014-03-31 another huge waste of money — Ed.

and «most dynamic» tossed around at the average press preview, the whole thing can take on the infatuated tone of a late - night infomercial for, say, a high - tech blender that also does your taxes.

That's like saying, «The Family Auto Mart infomercial is the best half - hour show on Channel 27 at midnight.»

And, at the risk of sounding like one of those awful TV infomercials, there's more.

Impulse buys at the checkout line, drunk shopping, online deals, infomercials and a weekend of store sales for just about every holiday are just some of the ways to easily spend your hard - earned cash.

First shown at MMK Frankfurt in 2016 and reconfigured for the exhibition, this hypnagogic environment, replete with watercoolers, plants, posters, people working at desks, as well as a waiting area and corporate infomercial, conflates time and space, compounding the quasi-authenticity of the scene and pseudo-legitimacy of the proposition.

This can be seen in gesture / title (2013), which he showed at the 2014 Whitney Biennial, where five painted monitors ran the same infomercial starting at different points.

We begin with a 360 - degree tour of a Gothic church, complete with the graphics of an infomercial or MTV show, before the 1979 fire at a Manchester branch of Woolworths (in which 10 people died) is recounted in similar fashion.

As seen on Austrian TV, the 2010 Winter Games looked at times like an infomercial for the Austria Passive House Group.

«More troubling is the close connection with Microsoft as the release and accompanying press coverage at times feels like an infomercial for the software giant.

Most prospective clients are eager for information at the initial office conference and their attention to the video is great — much like an «infomercial».

Once just the purview of cheesy late - night infomercials («buy now and get this beautiful set of six steak knives at no extra...

Well when you get home and turn on the TV at 11 pm on a weekday, you can or at least I could find late night infomercials.

Your guard must especially be up with gurus on late - night infomercials, but you must even be careful with well - meaning advice at investment groups in your town or even on the Biggerpockets Forums.

Well I know I am going to sound like a cheesy infomercial here but while visiting my mom in FL last year, she turned me on to a product she found at a flea market.