Commercial for Nicorette Gum - as broadcast in the early 2000s
Nicorette is the brand name of a number of products for nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) that contain nicotine. Developed in the late 1970s in Sweden by AB Leo [sv] in the form of chewing gum, Nicorette was the first nicotine replacement product on the market.
The product range encompasses chewing gum, lozenges, patches of two kinds (transparent and non-transparent), oral spray (Nicorette QuickMist), inhalator, sublingual tablets (Nicorette Microtab) and nasal spray.
The products are manufactured by McNeil Consumer Healthcare company, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, in Helsingborg, Sweden and are sold globally by Johnson & Johnson except for in the United States where Nicorette is distributed by GlaxoSmithKline.
Nicotine replacement products including gum and transdermal patches are on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.
The brand name "Nicorette" comes from "nicotine" and Swedish: rette, "right way".
A bit of a cheesy PSA from 1998 for a before-school breakfast program.
From their website:
Over the past 20 years, Breakfast for Learning has helped to nourish more than 3.8 million children from coast to coast, providing over 594 million meals and snacks.
Just like our Canadian Living founders, we are a community of Canadians who feel a commitment to Canadian children. We believe that children deserve the very best chance of success in life, and the way that we help is by ensuring that they are well-nourished and ready to learn throughout the school day. We make this happen in more than 1,600 school sites every year by bringing together the people in our communities to engage local expertise and resources to meet the needs of their child nutrition programs and the students it serves. We believe in fostering community, and all children are welcome.
When a child is hungry, it’s hard to learn. With your help, we can continue to work to ensure children have the nutrition they need to grow and thrive with a world of opportunity in front of them.
Infomercial for the Cold Heat soldering iron - broadcast in the early 2000s
ColdHeat was an American company founded to develop and market products using the proprietary graphite-like compound Athalite. The composite material is claimed by the manufacturer to have the unusual ability to conduct large amounts of heat and return to room temperature in a short amount of time.
The first two products were soldering irons powered by alkaline batteries. The manufacturer claims this soldering iron is unique in that its Athalite tip undergoes a temperature change from ambient temperature to approximately 800 °F (427 °C) and back to ambient within three seconds when the tip is removed from the work.
The tip of this apparatus is split into two sections that complete an electrical circuit when a low electrical resistance is placed across the tip; e.g. metallic contacts, or solder. With a current flowing, the resistance of both the solder and the tip produces enough heat to increase the temperature beyond the melting point of the solder. For the light-duty work it was designed for, the Athalite tip heats just enough and can cool very rapidly; however, if applied to something with a large thermal capacity such as a metal chassis, the tip can become extremely hot and can take over a minute to cool in an extreme case.
It is thought that the irons cannot be used indiscriminately for all work; the voltage across and current through the tip can damage electronic circuits being soldered. When not in contact with a joint, the split-tip has 6 or more volts across it, enough to destroy semiconductor p-n junctions on contact if the iron accidentally touches multiple closely spaced pads. This is not static-electricity damage; any voltage over about 0.7V capable of delivering a high current can destroy a semiconductor junction.
It's a common misunderstanding that a high current in the joint causes heat. The heat is generated by resistance within the tip. Heat is then conducted to the joint just as in traditional solder tools. Also, the current in the joint is limited to the small region between the two tip halves and doesn't pass through the part being soldered. There is a tiny transient voltage when the tool is applied or removed, but it is orders of magnitude below the levels that cause static-electricity damage.
A little segment that was put on between shows on CHRO with Bob Cowan as host. Broadcast sometime in the early 1990s
He's still very active today - from the CHCH TV website:
Before coming to CHCH in 2001, Oakville native Bob Cowan was heard on the radio in the Nation’s Capital before making the transition to television in Ottawa as host of ‘The Bob Couch’. He was later seen nationally on the Global Television network and on Inside Entertainment interviewing stars from Los Angeles and New York.
Bob was among the first to provide a glimpse from inside Canada’s newest submarine HMCS Victoria writing for globalnews.ca and The SubCommittee Report magazine internationally. Bob also took part in providing live reports from Reykjavik, Iceland and RAF Coningsby, UK in the historic transatlantic flight of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Lancaster bomber for the Reunion of Giants. The last two airworthy WWII Lancaster bombers reunited over the skies of England in 2014.
Bob is deeply entrenched with many organizations such as the Halton Children’s Aid Foundation and served as the honorary chair of City Kidz, an organization dedicated to making a positive impact on at-risk children. He volunteers his time emceeing many charitable events.
Bob hosts the automotive feature Shift on CHCH and his reviews have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country as well as online on carpages.ca and MSN Canada.
Along with co-host Annette Hamm, the always entertaining Bob Cowan uses his unique brand of humour to wake up viewers on Morning Live, airing weekday mornings from 6-10am on CHCH.
Clifford Giese and his father Arnold realized there had to be a quicker, more convenient way to get an oil change than having to make an appointment with a garage or dealership. In 1976, they opened the first Mr. Lube location in Edmonton and by 1984 they initiated a franchise program, thus entering a period of major expansion. Mr. Lube has since become one of Canada's largest quick lube brands with approximately 170 locations
Recorded off-air sometime in 1994, this infomercial hawked Victoria Principal's "Principal Secret" cosmetics.
Vicki Ree Principal (born January 3, 1950), later known as Victoria Principal, is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and author, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the American primetime television soap opera series Dallas. She spent nine years on the long-running series, leaving in 1987. Afterwards, she began her own production company, Victoria Principal Productions, focusing mostly on television films.
In the mid-1980s, Principal became interested in natural beauty therapies, and in 1989, she created a self-named line of skincare products, Principal Secret. Over the past 25 years, Principal has built her skincare empire.
In April 2019, Principal announced that she was stepping away from Principal Secret with Guthy Renker acquiring the business.
A feature segment of Speakers Corner that was produced by Citytv in Toronto in the early 2000s
Speakers' Corner is a brand owned by Rogers Media that is used for its television segments airing on Citytv. The namesake television series aired weekly on CHUM Limited's television stations Citytv and A (formerly A-Channel) stations in Canada from 1990 to 2008, featuring numerous short segments on a variety of topics as recorded by members of the general public in the form of rants, big-ups, shoutouts, jokes, music performances, etc. After the video was complete, it was edited for television.
The show was an example of Citytv founder Moses Znaimer's philosophy of interactive broadcasting and essentially created what some 21st-century media outlets would retroactively label as a precursor to YouTube.
Angel is an American television series, a spinoff from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffy's creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt. It aired on The WB from October 5, 1999, to May 19, 2004, consisting of five seasons and 110 episodes. Like Buffy, it was produced by Whedon's production company, Mutant Enemy.
The show details the ongoing trials of Angel, a vampire whose human soul was restored to him by a Romani curse as a punishment for the murder of one of their own. After more than a century of murder and the torture of innocents, Angel's restored soul torments him with guilt and remorse. Angel moves to Los Angeles, California, after it is clear that his doomed relationship with Buffy, the vampire slayer, cannot continue. During the majority of the show, he works as a private detective in L.A., where he and a variety of associates work to "help the helpless", restoring the faith and saving the souls of those who have lost their way. While he must also battle his own demonic nature, he typically battles with evil demons or humans allied to them.
Commercial for the movie Heartbreakers as broadcast in 2001
Heartbreakers (stylized as heartBREAKeRS) is a 2001 American romantic comedy crime film directed by David Mirkin and written by Robert Dunn, Paul Guay, and Stephen Mazur. It stars Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, and Gene Hackman. The plot revolves around an elaborate con set up by a mother-daughter team to swindle wealthy men out of their money, and what happens during their "last" con together. The film marks the last onscreen film appearance of Anne Bancroft before her death in June 2005.
Heartbreakers received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $57 million. Weaver was nominated for a Satellite Award for her performance in the film.
Sensodyne is a brand of toothpaste that was first sold by Block Drug, a Brooklyn, New York-based company established in 1907 by pharmacist Alexander Block.
By 1925, manufacturing dental care products had become the company's focus. Leonard N. Block followed his father into the family business which relocated to Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1938.
In 2000, Block Drug was purchased by Smith Kline Beecham P.L.C., which became GlaxoSmithKline
The toothpaste was first marketed in 1961 as a desensitizing toothpaste based on a strontium chloride formulation. In 1980, Sensodyne launched a new toothpaste containing potassium nitrate, a mild local sedative.
