NBC Boycott Time! Madonna to appear on the Today Show!

[ConservativeMan55]

On my local Fox affiliate I see a commercial for the Today Show. Madonna is playing guitar with Matt Lauer, and he gleefully exclaims that THEY are going to be performing togther on Monday??? We should send NBC a message.
I don't even watch NBC now, but I'll voluntarliy block NBC, and MSNBC from my TV...lets make a list of advertisers for all NBC shows.. Apparently Madonna is trying to promote some new CD of Anti-War songs, and Matt and Madonna will sing them on the Today Show?

[ConservativeMan55]

So much for objective news! Bwahahahaha!

[Semper Paratus]

Will Katy Colonic be there, or is she finally going to have that tube taken out?

[ConservativeMan55]

I don't know if she will be there or not...I'm looking for a list of advertisers...lets hit em in the pocketbook.

[kellynla]

Who watches NBC anyway? Nothing But *rap...you figure it out. LOL

[ConservativeMan55]

If the trend keeps up...Fox and Friends will beat the today show soon....

[Rummyfan]

Madonna pulling out all the stops in generating hype for her new CD: loving article in USA Today, now this.

Sorry, Louise, no one wants to hear your blather anymore. And how washed up can she be when she's appearing on Today?

I'v already stopped watching Today and NBC anyway.

[goodnesswins]

I thought F&F already beat the Today Show? I thought that was announced yesterday!!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I recently discovered that the Today show does not cover the Centcom briefings, live. FNC does... yet another reason to watch Fox and Friends in the AM.

[Geezerette]

LOL!!! No, Katie Clymer is on her way to Little Rock to be a part of that gigantic colon that is wending its way thru town (saw that on another FR thread here this AM!)

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[ConservativeMan55]

I wonder who is one of the biggest sponsors of the today show?

[ConservativeMan55]

It was the Early Show they beat..two weeks in a row.

[mabelkitty]

Actually, nobody will watch out of boredom.

[ConservativeMan55]

Reuters
Skittish advertisers pull commercials from news
Thursday March 20, 3:32 pm ET
By Mark Weinraub


NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Advertisers, skittish about hawking products in the middle of missile strikes and other scenes from the war, plan to pull commercials from news programs but still run them on entertainment and sports shows.
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Of course, some networks and cable channels have been covering news of the long-awaited U.S. attack on Iraq commercial free since it began Wednesday night.

Advertisers, who had been anticipating the war for months, enacted their contingency plans for commercials, said Barbara Bacci Mirque, senior vice president of the Association of National Advertisers.

"A lot of our members have said they don't want to run in graphic news coverage, even after the first couple of days," said Bacci Mirque, whose industry trade group represents more than 300 advertisers.

Consumer packaged goods giant Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG - News) pulled all of its advertising from the broadcast networks after the strike on Wednesday night, a ban it will keep in place for 48 hours, according to spokeswoman Linda Ulrey.

Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:KFT - News), the maker of such well-known brands as Philadelphia cream cheese, Altoids mints and Oscar Mayer meats, will run commercials on other shows.

"We will continue to advertise in entertainment programming," Kathy Knuth said, a spokeswoman for Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:KFT - News), the largest North American food company.

The same policies will be applied to Kraft's print, radio and Internet advertising, Knuth said.

General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM - News) has a similar, but not as strict policy, spokeswoman Ryndee Carney said. The automaker, the No. 1 advertiser in the United States, would not advertise on television programs that are devoted exclusively to coverage of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. That includes any extended network news coverage of the war, she said, but not regular news broadcasts.

Some companies, such as computer company International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News), have not modified their advertising or marketing plans at all.

VARIED RESPONSES

After the initial coverage of the Wednesday night action, the networks had varied responses to the war.

NBC has been the most aggressive of the broadcast networks, covering the news nearly "wall-to-wall" since 9:32 p.m. EST Wednesday. After 12:45 a.m. Thursday the network offered its local stations the option of carrying its sister cable channel MSNBC or going back to their regular programming.

The network came back on at 6:30 a.m. EST Thursday with the "Today" show, running that program past its usual ending time and in to 11 a.m. EST. After "Today," which had some commercials and some non-war programming, the network went back to commercial-free special reports.

ABC was commercial free from 9:40 p.m. EST until 11 p.m. EST Wednesday night, the network said. On CBS, broadcasts were commercial free from 9:33 p.m. EST until 11 p.m. EST, then again at 11:35 p.m. EST until midnight and briefly at 1 a.m. EST.

All the networks switched back to commercial-free coverage on Thursday afternoon following reports of further military action.

DEPENDS ON THE PRODUCT

In the end, the decision about advertising is often based on the product being sold, thee Association of National Advertisers' Bacci Mirque said. Companies such as airlines or travel groups may decide to cancel ads because no one is flying, but consumer products companies may keep their commercials on the air.

Burger King, the No. 2 U.S. hamburger chain, does not plan on changing its advertising "because we don't have anything that could offend the general public from a current events perspective," spokeswoman Michelle Miguelez said.

"Selling Whoppers is a friendly thing," she added. (Additional reporting by Deborah Cohen in Chicago, Ben Berkowitz in Los Angeles, Tom Brown in Detroit, and Caroline Humer and Jessica Wohl in New York)

[Cagey]

On my local Fox affiliate I see a commercial for the Today Show. Madonna is playing guitar with Matt Lauer, and he gleefully exclaims that THEY are going to be performing togther on Monday???

Come on, you can admit you were watching NBC. It's not THAT big a sin. Why would a Fox affiliate run an ad for NBC?

[Lady Eileen]

I don't know if she will be there or not...I'm looking for a list of advertisers...lets hit em in the pocketbook.

Let's keep voting with our pocketbooks.....Hollywood is not for us but against us.

[ConservativeMan55]

No..I wasn't watching...actually its kind of like when CNN runs commercials on Foxnews. It isn't Foxnews...its the local affiliate.

[ConservativeMan55]

Imagine how embarrassing it would be for them if we made enough of a fuss about Madonna appearing that they had to cancel her appearance!

[Hildy]

Calm down...don't watch it. Alot of people want to see Madonna. You haven't even heard the album, it hasn't been reviewed. How do you know it's anti-war songs. I'm sure it sucks, as does most of what Madonna does these days, but if you're going to get yourself into a tizzy every time a liberal goes on TV, you're going to have a nervous breakdown!!!!

[ConservativeMan55]

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