KATU Super Bowl Promo Commercials — 1995

The Super Bowl is a rare promotional opportunity that, for your average local network affiliate, only comes along once every three years. Despite this, it’s not always taken advantage of. Here are the ads KATU ran for itself during Super Bowl XXIX in 1995.

The most interesting one is the boast that KATU was now “online” — but instead of a web address, they displayed a phone number to connect to a BBS service. We were months away from companies building and promoting their own websites. At this point KATU knew what the Internet was, just not how it worked.