Talk:Bill Cosby in advertising/Archives/2013

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The Kids' favourite grown-up-- Bill Cosby http://books.google.com/books?id=AMUDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&dq=bill+cosby&hl=en&ei=e2ovTsvMJJGdgQf796CmAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=bill%20cosby&f=false

I'd didn't have six channels http://books.google.com/books?id=Ib4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34&dq=bill+cosby&hl=en&ei=e2ovTsvMJJGdgQf796CmAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=bill%20cosby&f=false

IBM
http://books.google.ca/books?id=U3rJxPYT32MC&lpg=PA205&dq=texas%20instruments%20bill%20cosby&pg=PA205#v=onepage&q=texas%20instruments%20bill%20cosby&f=false

Claim that Cosby was spokesperson for IBM at one point. -- Zanimum (talk) 15:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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The success of his program The Cosby Show, compared to previous efforts, has been attributed to his familiarity with audiences as a pitchman. Indeed,

1969: "At the time, the only spokesman of color was Bill Cosby, selling Jell-O."

Cosby's 1972 animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids challenged contemporary views on educational content on commercial television. With series like Sesame Street and The Electric Company freshly on the airwaves of public television stations, both of which Cosby made appearances on, a commercially aired series with educational content was relatively untested. Nevertheless, the show was successful, running until 1984. (Cosby later wrote a dissertation on the show, "An Integration of the Visual Media Via Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning," as partial fulfillment of obtaining his 1976 doctorate in education, also from the University of Massachusetts.