What people did before online dating - 1996 TeleCompanions ad
Before online dating, there were telephone dating services. Here is a 1996 radio commercial (broadcast on 95.5 WPLJ in New York City) for one such company, named TeleCompanions. The only information I can find about them is from their trademark registration, which says the TeleCompanions name was first used in 1992, and their trademark was filed in April 1996 by J R P D Inc. and expired in 2003.
Attempting to call the number sung in the ad's Disco-style jingle today just results in a "your call could not be completed as dialed" message. I wonder if that young professional named Donna ever met her companion through the service...
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I thought the announcer sounded a lot like Casey Kasem.
No wonder they failed - anyone who's too socially inept to date normally is probably also scared of the telephone! xD
This old TeleCompanions commercial kind of reminds me of what "The Dating Network" was. It used to be a similar service that my cable company used to have on my area's local classifieds channel back in the 1990s and as late as the early 2000s. They would provide the local dating listings through a 1-900 phone number and they would show these listings on the screen. These dating listings used to run on my local classifieds channel every day. They stopped doing "The Dating Network" listings sometime in the mid-2000s or so.
I never really knew some company would use a rendition of the William-Tell Overture in their jingle. Wow.
Brilliant.
They also recorded themselves in cassettes and send it to each other by mail
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Was this the company that Rose Turdord and Carolyn Stevens used?
Will you be my waifu, babe?