question for those who watch a lot of CNN

[franksolich]

As many here know, I'm an inmate in a nursing home, placed here because my two legs weren't good enough to hold me upright.

The television here is perpetually tuned to CNN, but it wouldn't make any difference if it were tuned to a hardcore porno channel, as nobody pays attention to it.  It doesn't have to be on CNN; it' there only out of habit.

I catch glimpses of it during various times of the day, and have noticed a most curious phenomenon--all of the commercials--no exceptions, all of them, every single one of them--deal with Medicare and Medicare-related products.

One waits in vain to see an advertisement for Ford Trucks or Maxwell House coffee or debt  consolidation loans or stock brokerages or et cetera. 

There's advertisements only for Medicare and Medicare-related products.

I don't imagine this is the case out in the wider real world.

Does one suppose CNN pays nursing homes to show CNN, and focus their advertising thusly?

[Old n Grumpy]

It's time for those on medicare to choose an add on plan, hence the bombardment of ads.

The sad part is they are misleading just to get people to call.

[Ralph Wiggum]

As many here know, I'm an inmate in a nursing home, placed here because my two legs weren't good enough to hold me upright.

The television here is perpetually tuned to CNN, but it wouldn't make any difference if it were tuned to a hardcore porno channel, as nobody pays attention to it.  It doesn't have to be on CNN; it' there only out of habit.

I catch glimpses of it during various times of the day, and have noticed a most curious phenomenon--all of the commercials--no exceptions, all of them, every single one of them--deal with Medicare and Medicare-related products.

One waits in vain to see an advertisement for Ford Trucks or Maxwell House coffee or debt  consolidation loans or stock brokerages or et cetera. 

There's advertisements only for Medicare and Medicare-related products.

I don't imagine this is the case out in the wider real world.

Does one suppose CNN pays nursing homes to show CNN, and focus their advertising thusly?

The Medicare and Medicaid ads appear on other stations constantly as well.  I think Joe Namath is on TV more now than when he was a football star.  (He's one of the primary spokesmen for those ads)

CNN used to be a tolerable network.  Trump and COVID has turned them especially crazy. 

Targeting audiences is what the Madison Avenue folks do, for better or worse.  And they generally know the demographics of who primarily watches what network.   It is certainly an inexact science.  But if you look back at our formative years, just think of all the commercial jingles that are ingrained in our brains.