You know you are getting old when:

[tonyb]

^^^^^
I try not to lose sight of how fortunate I am to have what I have. It isn’t a charmed life, but it’s a helluva lot better than so many other peoples’. And I try not to downplay the role of sheer luck in these relatively happy circumstances. No one is entirely “self-made.” I sure ain’t.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Twenty years from now, I imagine such a dialog:

"Hey (Grampa), I need some music inspiration. Could you show me some good stuff from the old days, please? I'm sure, you got a lot of nice stuff, right?"

"Of course, my little, of course! Wait a minute, I bring you some."

"Um, what's this??"

"Huh?? It's for your CD-player, sweetheart."

"What's a CD-player??"

 

[Trenchfriend]

But back to the commercial TV topic.

I mean, It's just funny!
We now have 2025 and the big time of commercial TV in old Germany was over in 1995, THIRTY YEARS AGO!

But that practically correlated to the fast slowing-down "reunification conjuncture".
Companies more and more stopped costly TV advertising because of market saturation.