Michael Busch (Sprint), who was later replaced by Adam Herschman. Each representative wears a shirt with the color of the company they represent, as well as name tags to represent their company. Most ads in 2007 had the Cingular/AT&T guy wearing two name tags—one each for Cingular & AT&T—while that brand was transiting to AT&T. As of 2008, they added a snobbish wizard into the ads. The Christmas 2007/2008 ads uses stop-motion animation, parodying the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials. The campaign included a MySpace page, and Campbell-Ewald Digital created The Man Cave with its own web site. The fourth and fifth commercials features employees of other carriers' mall stores trying to convince Chad to end My Circle with $8.00. The sixth has Chad giving RAZRs as Christmas gifts to them. Since this service and advertising campaign started, other carriers started adding similar services. For example, T-Mobile introduced "My Faves" in the fall of 2006. In 2010, markets sold to Verizon Wireless aired a special commercial with both Chad and Paul Marcarelli as the real "Verizon Guy". Alltel and Chad produced a Christmas edition commercial later that year for remaining Alltel markets, featured at Longbranch Coffee House located in Carbondale, Illinois. Sponsorships Former structure naming rights Alltel Stadium (formerly Jacksonville municipal stadium, now TIAA Bank Field) Jacksonville, Florida Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, North Carolina Alltel Arena, North Little Rock, Arkansas Alltel Ice Den, Scottsdale, Arizona Alltel Pavilion at the Stuart C. Siegel Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia Maxwell Field at Alltel Stadium, Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota Alltel Center, Mankato, Minnesota Racing Teams NASCAR Herzog Motorsports #92, (Jimmie Johnson, 2000) Penske Racing South #02, 12, and 39, (Ryan Newman 2000-2008) References External links Alltel/AT&T Merger Information Windstream Communications (former Alltel landline business) Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture Archive of Alltel Intercept Messages Telecommunications companies of the United States Telecommunications companies established in 1943 Mobile phone companies of the United States 1943 establishments in Arkansas Companies based in Little Rock, Arkansas Defunct companies based in Arkansas American companies established in 1943 Retail companies established in 1943 AT&T Verizon Wireless TPG Capital companies 2016 disestablishments in Arkansas 2016 mergers and acquisitions Telecommunications companies disestablished in 2016 American companies disestablished in 2016