Sponsors From Letterman (Wednesdays Show)

6/11/2009 | Curth

[curth]

I videotaped Letterpervs show last night and zipped through it this morning to see who the advertisers were, and here they are. Note, this is not a complete list, I missed the first 10 to 15 minutes of the lie/hate fest.

Paramount Pictures

Lincoln-Mercury

Met-Life

AT&T

Actonel

AAA

McDonalds

HBO

Mazda

Direct TV

Olive Garden

Listerine

MyCricket.com

Toyota

Geico

Best Buy

Icy Hot

Chase Bank (credit card)

Touchstone Pictures

Verizon Wireless

Kelloggs

Pepcid

I won't be able to look up the contact info like I did yesterday until later this afternoon. If someone can do it, I am sure everyone will appreciate it

[curth]

Keep the heat on, don't let the lying pervert get away with his hate speech.

[F15Eagle]

bump

[Cathy]

I’d say an concerted effort to get Mcd’s to drop their advertising - considering their target market is children - would be a good start. A couple thousand (maybe million) letters to their corporate office and perhaps they will rethink their advertising dollars on Letterman.

[Servant of the Cross]

His lame response and non apology: THEY'RE JUST JOKES.

You're the joke, Dave. Imus did not get away with this excuse and neither should you.

[SolidWood]

Thanks curth.

Everyone should be aware that several advertisers bring out the line that they are only “indirectly” supporting Letterman (placed there by CBS).

Don’t fall for the BS deflection. They should demand to be dissociated from Letterman. CBS needs to get the message from the sponsors that Letterperv is toxic.

[JenB987]

Since when is statutory rape a joke?

Jokes are supposed to be funny.

[usmcobra]

Never crudely joke about a woman that can kill a moose, field dress it and haul it’s still warm carcass back to her family in an Alaskan snow storm.

She’ll skin you alive at the first possibility.

[Texas Fossil]

I’ll pay to watch that.

[jimbo123]

McDonald’s

http://apps.mcdonalds.com/contactus/navigate.do?link=mcbiz

Olive Garden

https://www.olivegarden.com/company/contact_us/Default.asp?

Kellogs

http://www.kelloggcompany.com/contactus.aspx
Kellogg Corporate World Headquarters
Main Switchboard: (269) 961-2000
Consumers Affairs: (800) 962-1413

Johnson & Johnson: Listerine

https://www.listerine.com/contact-us.jsp

Pepcid

https://www.pepcidac.com/page.jhtml?id=pepcid/include/contactus.inc
https://www.listerine.com/contact-us.jsp

Toyota

http://www.toyota.com/help/contactus.html

[lacrew]

I don’t know much about how these ads are placed...but, if you watch CBS on cable tv, isn’t it possible that the local cable company positioned the ad...making it hard for a company to know if their ad played during Letterman. This would be completely outside of a company placing an ad with CBS.

I just want to make sure the right people are getting boycotted.

[jimbo123]

You are misinformed. Local cable systems do NOT place local ad insertions on network shows like Letterman. The ads come from the network or their local affiliate.

[Servant of the Cross]

not sure she'll have the patience for that in this case. (Dave, it's just a joke)

[Mr. K]

here is my reply to every one of them:

Dear Sirs/Mdms.
I am writing in regard to your sponsorship of David Lettermans show, and any lack of response from your company concerning his shameful comments on Governor Palin and her daughters.

As a Conservative Republican I am getting tired of 99% of all TV shows calling me an evil person and acting like it is OK to insult me. I take your sponsorship as tacit approval of this.

So I am voting with my wallet.

I will not purchase your products, and I will be telling other co-workers why. We have many other choices.

I hope I see some response or condemnation of this constant conservative-bashing on shows you sponsor.

sincerely

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I had no idea he was still on TV.

[Peter Horry]

Somebody get Listerine, Kelloggs & Toyota, I’ll get the rest.

[Buckeye McFrog]

the only one that may post a problem for me is DirecTV.
The cable company here is far worse.

[lacrew]

Ok...which is why I started out saying I don’t know much about how the ads work....

But, I remember last year a dispute between the local cable carrier and CBS affiliate. The affiliate (WIBW) wanted Cox cable to pay a small fee (around a dollar per subscriber) to carry CBS. The logic was that CBS was only allowing cable to rebroadcast CBS, as a convienence, so customers could get CBS without an antenna...

However, most programs had a certain portion of the commercial space allotted for local ads. Cable was selling the local ad space, without compensating WIBW. Thus, if you switch from cable to over the air signal during a commercial break, you sometimes see identical ads, but other times see different ones.

The same thing happens when I look at cable CBS from Topeka, vs the Kansas City feed...sometimes identical commercials, sometimes different (sometimes one is blacked out).

I just don’t want to boycott Olive Garden, for example, if their commercial ran in one market, because some baseball game had run short and they couldn’t get all the commercials in...and a local program manager placed it on Letterman to get it played before midnight.

[stevio]

Bump.

[Roses0508]

Got Kelloggs, working on the other two. Want to bump this so I can find it tonight at home also.

[Let's Roll]

I have Directv too. But here is one way to handle it:

Have been trying to decide whether to cancel premium movie channels or not - their sponsorship of Letterman will be the tie breaker.

[Right Cal Gal]

HBO, DirecTV, AT&T, McDonalds - all will be getting an email from me.

[stylecouncilor]

ping to do from work

[norge]

Thanks, just sent an email to Olive Garden.

Just a suggestion, be polite.

[norge]

Chances are that if the commercials running in the program are national spots such as the ones mentioned, they are placed with CBS.

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

Polite and firm. I will contact all his sponsors including my local ones. Let CBS feel the pain in their wallets for sanctioning this filth. I assume there is no legal action that can be taken by the Palins.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I like.

McDonalds Corporation it is.

McDonald’s Corporation
2111 McDonald’s Dr
Oak Brook, IL 60523

[SueRae]

bttt

[Churchillspirit]

That list of sponsors is totally different from the one posted yesterday by Diogenesis

That thread was David Letterman Slammed for Sex Jokes About Palin's Teen Daughter.

Wonder which one is accurate - or perhaps both.

[Churchillspirit]

I sent some letters yesterday. Not quite as polite as you!

[jimbo123]

bump

[curth]

I recorded the show on Wednesday and compiled this list myself.

Kelloggs http://www.kelloggcompany.com/contactus.aspx Kellogg Corporate World Headquarters Main Switchboard: (269) 961-2000 Consumers Affairs: (800) 962-1413

Paramount Pictures 5555 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038-3197 (323) 956-5000 brenna.girard@paramount.com

Lincoln-Mercury P.O. Box 6128 Dearborn, MI 48121 http://www.mercuryvehicles.com/help/contactus.asp (800) 521-4140

Met-Life 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166 1-800-MET-LIFE 1-800-638-5433

AT&T Contact page, hard to find the proper people to contact. It figures. http://localization.att.com/loc/controller?cdvn=landinglocalization&pid=1080&cookieResetted=true&ltype=contactus

Actonel (Proctor and Gamble) One Procter & Gamble Plaza Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 45202 http://pg.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/pg.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php

AAA 1000 AAA Drive, Heathrow, FL 32746 Geoff Sundstrom, Director of Public Relations gsundstrom@national.aaa.com Janie Graziani, Public Relations Manager jgraziani@national.aaa.com 407-444-8000

McDonalds http://apps.mcdonalds.com/contactus/navigate.do?link=mcbiz

HBO HBO’s Consumer Affairs Department at 212-512-1208 http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do?title=General%20Information&questiontype=general

Mazda Mazda North American Operations P.O. Box 19734 Irvine, CA 92623-9734 http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/emailMazda.action 1-800-222-5500

Direct TV http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPageIFnorail.jsp?assetId=P4960010#h:1074.242

Olive Garden https://www.olivegarden.com/company/contact_us/Default.asp

Listerine https://www.listerine.com/contact-us.jsp

MyCricket (Leap Wireless) 10307 Pacific Center Court San Diego, California 92121 Tel: 858-882-6000 Fax: 858-882-6010 cricketmediainquiries@phdnetwork.com

Toyota http://www.toyota.com/help/contactus.html

Geico http://www.geico.com/about/contactus/

Best Buy Customer Service, Web Site, Store and General/Corporate Inquiries Best Buy Corporate Customer Care P.O. Box 9312 Minneapolis , MN 55440 1-888-BEST BUY (1-888-237-8289)

Media Inquiries Best Buy Public Relations Department Email: NewsCenter@bestbuy.com Phone: 612-292-NEWS (6397) After Hours Pager: 612-618-6703 http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=cat12104&type=page

Icy Hot (Chattem) http://www.chattem.com/contactus.asp

Chase Bank (credit card) https://www.chase.com/ccp/index.jsp?pg_name=ccpmapp/shared/assets/page/contactus

Touchstone Pictures (Disney) http://home.disney.go.com/guestservices/contact (This is all I could find)

Verizon Wireless https://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/contact/email.jsp

Pepcid https://www.pepcidac.com/page.jhtml?id=pepcid/include/contactus.inc

From his website:

Guitar Center, Inc. 5795 Lindero Canyon Rd. Westlake Village, CA 91362 CA Tel. 818-735-8800 Fax 818-735-8822 Chairman and CEO: Marty P. Albertson President and COO: Gregory A. (Greg) Trojan EVP and CFO: Erick Mason https://gc.guitarcenter.com/secure/subscribe/contact.cfm?id=7

Now Network (Sprint) http://www.sprint.com/contactus/

Amtrak http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/ContactUs

Republican Governors Association!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.rga.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177&Itemid=3

[Churchillspirit]

You did a lot of work there!

Thank you.

[curth]

You’re welcome. Just trying to do my part.

[jgraziani]

AAA national office does not have any current broadcast or cable TV ad campaigns running and none planned. It’s possible the club in your area may have run a local ad, and if you’ll give me your city/state I can check that with the local club. Also want you to know that we are checking with Google Adsense to see if it’s possible to keep our text ads from appearing on CBS or Late Show websites. I don’t run the campaigns but our first step is to see if that’s possible. Just want you to know that AAA is listening.

[curth]

Cool. The AAA ad ran twice. I cannot say whether it was national or not. Good work. I viewed the show in the Philadelphia market on CBS 3 KYW.