The 1950s were a genuinely strange time to be standing in front of a television set. The decade marked a revolution in home ...

Washboard abs, stain-free carpets, and the ability to dice a tomato with a playing card: Do these promises sound familiar? These are just a few of the claims made by some of the world’s most ...

I have to admit that I am mesmerized by the Time Life infomercials advertising those compact disc sets for one genre or another. They've got "70s Music EXPLOSION," "Superstars of Country" and one that ...

The counterintuitive success of infomercials is directly correlated to a decrease in the price of media time, according to mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Dan Nosenchuck, who teaches a ...