In 1991, FOX ran the first condom ad in network television history.'
The ad, for Trojan condoms, ran during an episode of the sitcom Herman's Head and it appeared just two weeks after Magic Johnson had announced that he had contracted the HIV virus, although the ad itself never mentions HIV or AIDS. However, 16 years earlier, in 1975, ABC affiliate KNTV ran TV's first condom ad, also for Trojan, but it did not run on a national network.