A television commercial donut is a template for a television commercial. It contains all the specialized elements necessary to create a finished commercial, but does not contain any specific product, pricing, or logos. It is named, somewhat humorously, after the donut, a pastry with a hole in the middle. For the list of templates used in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Template messages. ... From the earliest days of the medium, television has been used as a vehicle for advertising in some countries. ... Glazed doughnuts A doughnut, or donut, is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter. ...

Traditionally, high-quality commercial television advertising has been very expensive and time consuming to produce. As a result many smaller advertisers have chosen to take advantage of the "free" or low-cost production offered by many cable television stations in exchange for purchasing airtime. Because most of these stations do intend to make a profit from the actual production, despite its low cost, it is not in their interests to go to the extra expense of producing custom 3D artwork and animations for these commercials. As a result many "local" commercials do not look very appealing compared to the national chains. Television commercial donuts allow for inexpensive customization by local cable/televison stations by providing the custom artwork in a editable form. Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional... 3-D or 3D abbreviates three dimensional and is often related to a stereoscopic display that exploits binocular vision. ...