Kives' catch phrase was used in advertising shows known as what?
Philip Kives Philip Kives (12 February 1929 – 27 April 2016) was a Canadian business executive, entrepreneur and marketing expert from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is best known for founding K-tel, which sold household gadgets including the "Miracle Brush", "Feather Touch Knife", "Veg-O-Matics", as well as many compilation record albums. Kives reputedly coined the catchphrase "As seen on TV", which was included in may of the company's advertisements. Kives utilized low-budget television commercials to sell millions of products and build an international business empire.
KVN KVN (Russian: КВН , an abbreviation of Клуб весёлых и находчивых , "Klub vesyólykh i nakhódchivykh" or "Ka-Ve-En", "Club of the Funny and Inventive People") is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams (usually college students) compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches, that originated in the Soviet Union. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned "KVN". The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which "KVN" players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.