# Television Preview: beware!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-preview-beware/464174>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 18, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-preview-beware/464174 "2008-09-18T17:59:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-preview-beware/464174/1 "2008-09-18T17:59:43Z")

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Just got free tickets in the mail to watch some TV shows at an airport hotel a week from now, and give feedback “to directly influence what you see on television in the future.” Learned from Wiki, however, that it’s a scam for advertisers: [Television Preview - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Preview)

Anyone else gone to a TP event?

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**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-preview-beware/464174/2 "2008-09-18T18:47:35Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Just got free tickets in the mail to watch some TV shows at an airport hotel a week from now, and give feedback “to directly influence what you see on television in the future.” Learned from Wiki, however, that it’s a scam for advertisers: [Television Preview - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Preview)
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> Anyone else gone to a TP event?

Went to one with my family years ago. We saw two bad sitcom pilots (one about a couple struggling with their jobs being in different cities the other starring Sally Kellerman). We filled out a survey of grocery products we might like to try with the promise that one person would win those products. I won, but instead I just got a check for the value of the groceries. So instead of getting the new flavor of Pop Tarts I wanted my mom just bought real food.