Multiple Airings of Same Commercial Discount
If you want your same commercial to be shown more than once, a 15% discount will be given for each showing, provided the request is made during your initial order. Requests for multiple showings of the same commercial placed after your initial airing will be given a 10% discount.
Actual Paid Client Numbers (APC#s)
‘Time For Me TV’ attaches an “Actual Paid Client” number or APC# to each client video that appears in a ‘Time For Me TV’ commercial. This number is used for video/client identification and for contacting clients that appear in our commercials. Due to FCC laws regarding the brokering of time, we cannot allow our clients to enclose, verbalize or display business names or contact information of any kind other than APC#s.
A $5.00 “Hook-up” fee will be assessed to each party requesting any of our clients’ contact information.
Note: Due to “commercial sharing,” multiple APC#s may occur in a commercial.
Contacting Our Clients
All client videos that appear in a ‘Time For Me TV’ commercial have been assigned an “Actual Paid Client” number or APC#. If you would like to contact one or more of our clients, please call ‘Time For Me TV’ at 480-268-6633 or 602-714-0779 and supply us with the APC# displayed. You will be assessed a $5.00 “Hook up” fee for each client’s information we provide. Clients have the option to pre-pay any number of “Hook-up” fees associated with releasing their own contact information. Clients can also decline the release of their own contact information. “Hook-up” fees can be paid with Visa or MasterCard.
Note: Due to “commercial sharing” multiple APC#’s may occur in a commercial.
Sharing Commercials
In each 30 second commercial, 24 seconds are available for purchase by clients submitting videos to our service. In a 60 second commercial, 54 seconds are available. It’s our goal to fill all the available seconds of each commercial, so multiple client videos may share a commercial. As an example:
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If one client purchases 8 seconds in a commercial, that leaves 16 seconds to be purchased by another client or clients in that commercial.
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Clients must purchase no less than 8 seconds and up to 54 seconds in a commercial.
You Should Know
This important message is placed throughout the ‘Time For Me TV’ site on various documents but we feel it is worth mentioning here as well.
If you request your video be placed on a local cable network, only viewers of that same cable network will see your commercial. Although you may still reach a potential mass audience, (at least 300,000 viewers) your commercial will not be viewed by other networks such as Dish Network, Direct TV or other local cable networks. If you are planning to view your commercial, make sure you are at a location that subscribes to the network on which you have requested your commercial be aired.
The same holds true for satellite subscribers. Though you may receive national coverage for your commercial it will only be covered nationally by the satellite network on which you request to air.
Regardless of the network you subscribe to, you can request your commercial to air on any network anywhere in the United States.
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Congratulations! You get to be on TV! For as long as you want! Well….up to 54 seconds. But you can do that 54 seconds as often as you like. Even the most “Basic” of plans chosen will land your acceptable submission
An Acceptable Submission
An acceptable submission shall consist of the following criteria:
- Meets requirements
- Correct media
- Acceptable quality
- All paperwork completed and signed
- Requested number of seconds is between 8 and 54
- No editing required other than sequencing and formatting for TV
- Does not exceed our limitations
- Within FCC regulations
- Non-offensive
- Does not contain copywritten music, materials, etc
- No “contact” information is displayed other than the APC# assigned by Time For Me TV
- Never before broadcast on television
in front of potentially hundreds of thousands of viewers each time your commercial airs. You can say Happy Birthday to a cherished loved one in Smalltown, USA or tell all of America, “IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!” during the Superbowl. The choice is yours. Do you want the State of Texas to hear you sing during the commercial break of “American Idol,” or will you finally show your superpower to everyone during “Heroes?” You may have a specific target-audience in mind such as family, friends, coworkers, etc. It’s very important to us that you achieve your desired goal, but it will be your job to ensure your audience is watching the right station at the right time.
‘Time For Me TV’ charges a per-second rate for the time you choose to be on television. Per-second rates vary from region to region and are seasonal. Therefore, we can’t offer pricing on this website. Exact pricing can only be offered upon receipt of acceptable submission and completed documentation. However, we do have sample-costs of four major US cities, available in our “Description of Services” below. Note the more seconds purchased decreases the per-second rate.
---YOU MUST PURCHASE A MINIMUM OF 8 SECONDS UP TO A MAXIMUM OF 54 SECONDS---
Follow these 3 easy steps to submit your submission for placement on television.
Step 1 - Choose your plan.
Step 2 - Complete all the necessary documents and send us your submission.
Step 3 - Receive a quote during your orientation call.
We offer three plans from which to choose:
~ Basic Service (Best Value) ~ ~ Target Audience ~ ~ Late Night ~
All of these plans are explained in detail. Please read carefully and understand your purchase. No refunds will be given for missed commercials and no submissions will be returned. Your satisfaction is very important to us and it is our hope that you go forward with complete knowledge of our product and process.
Description of Service Plans:
Each plan offers multiple showings of your commercial at the following discounted rates: A 15% discount will be given for each showing of the same commercial after the first showing if the request for multiple showings is made during initial transaction. If the request for multiple showings is made after the initial transaction, a 10% discount will be given for each subsequent showing. Unless multiple airings are requested, your commercial will air one time.
Basic Service - This plan is our best value. If your desire is to reach a mass audience as soon as possible, this plan is the quickest, easiest, and most inexpensive way to achieve that goal. Our “Basic Service” plan will place your video submission on one of seven cable television stations, local to your area, between 9:00am and 4:00pm, Monday through Friday. Time, date and cable television station placement will be random.
The stations are as follows:
VH-1 ~ Spike ~ ETV ~ Comedy Central ~ BET ~ MTV-2 ~ Sci-fi
*Note* You must know who your service provider is, especially if you want to see yourself on television. All subscribers to the same local cable company will have access to view your commercial. The rate declines with more seconds purchased.
Our per-segmant rate for "Basic Service in Phx, Arizona is approximately $160.00
Our per-segmant rate for "Basic Service in LA, California is approximately $352.00
Our per-segmant rate for "Basic Service in SF, California is approximately $256.00
Our per-segmant rate for "Basic Service in NY, New York is approximately $472.00
Target Audience - Most times, this plan will carry a higher price tag than the “Basic Service” plan due to the cost of more desirable time slots and television stations. “Prime Time,” (7:00-10:00pm) for example, is a highly desirable timeslot on every station in every network- cable, satellite and broadcast. You can request your video be placed on any television station across the United States, Monday through Sunday, at any time of day or night. However, due to certain restrictions, we cannot guarantee that every request is attainable. Representatives of ‘Time For Me TV’ will work diligently to reach your desired destination. With this in mind, please be prepared to communicate to us exactly what you are hoping to accomplish with your video submission. We can help lower your cost by narrowing your Target Audience down to a specific region within a city or township. If your demographic is inaccessible through our service, you will be notified during our “Orientation contact.”
Please be prepared to supply the following information when you fill out our “Submission Form.”
“Location” of your target audience: State _______ City______ (Most cities are broken into regions. If your target audience can be narrowed down to a specific region, this will be communicated to you as it may save you money.)
“Station” on which you want your submission to air: ____ (This space requires the call letters of your desired station; TBS, USA ETV, FOX, BET, NBC, etc. [See list of television stations below] Do not place a number in this space. Numbered channels differ from region to region.)
“Date” you want your submission to air: _______ (Be certain of the “date” you supply. Once we schedule a commercial with a network, it becomes a part of their television programming and cannot be changed.)
“Time” in the location you want your submission to air: _____ (This will be an approximation and will depend on the programming schedule of your desired channel.)
Television signal carrier of target audience: ____________ (Knowing the signal carrier of your target audience is crucial for us to reach that target.)
Late Night - Due to FCC regulations and program ratings, certain submissions may not be deemed “acceptable” for daytime television programming. The only time these submissions can be shown is during “Late Night” television. With this plan clients will have the option to choose on which station they would like to air as well as the date. The cost of this plan varies with the station and date requested. If your submission falls into this category, you will be notified during our “Orientation contact.”
*Important*
The following are three achievement possibilities to consider:
- I want to See my submission on television
- I want my submission in front of a Mass Audience
- I want my submission to reach a specific Target-Audience
Most commercials will potentially reach a Mass Audience. In some cases, all of these achievement possibilities will be accomplished. It will actually depend on who your television network provider is in relation to what part of the country you want your commercial to air and on what station. It’s not truly relevant to ‘Time For Me TV’ whether you subscribe to satellite or cable television. The important detail to us is what you hope to achieve by submitting your video for placement on television. Our goal is to help you achieve your goal.
‘Time for Me TV’ defines “Mass Audience” as a potential for at least 300,000 viewers.
*Cable Television Station Examples:
A&E
AMC
Animal Planet
BET
Bravo
Cartoon Network
CMT
CNBC
Comedy Central
CNN
Discovery
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ETV
ESPN
ESPN2
Family
Food network
FX
Galavision
Golf
Lifetime
MTV
MTV-2
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Nick at Night
Sci-fi
Speed
Spike
TBS
TLC
TNT
Travel
TRUTV
USA
VH-1
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*Depending on your area and carrier, there may be more or fewer stations on your cable network.
*Dish Network Television Station Examples:
Same as cable
*Direct TV Television Station Examples:
Same as cable
Broadcast Network Television Examples:
ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, PBS, TBN, The CW
Dish Network and DirectTV subscribers:
If you want your commercial to air on Dish Network or DirectTV, your cost will be at a premium. The good news is you will receive National Exposure. The viewing audience for your commercial will potentially range in the millions. Dish Network, DirectTV and cable subscribers will not be able to view each others commercials.
Dish Network subscribers - Dish network subscribers receive national exposure on one station.
DirectTV subscribers - see only commercials that air on DirectTV. Receive national exposure on multiple stations
Cable subscribers - see only commercials that air on their respective local cable channels
*Whether you are a subscriber to one of these scenarios or not, you can air you acceptable submission on nearly any network.
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