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  • US moves to ban 'excessively noisy' TV advertisements

    12/16/2009 5:58:54 AM PST · by Poser · 73 replies · 1,075+ views
    BBC ^ | 12/16/2009 | BBC
    The US House of Representatives has approved a bill which aims to limit the volume of television advertisements. The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM) was approved by a voice vote in the house...
  • TV timeout? Blame the guy in the red hat (College Football)

    09/12/2009 9:49:28 AM PDT · by buccaneer81 · 14 replies · 1,411+ views
    The Columbus Dispatch ^ | September 12, 2009 | Tim Feran
    TV timeout? Blame the guy in the red hat Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:26 AM By Tim Feran THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH If you become irate over a long TV timeout during tonight's game between Ohio State University and the University of Southern California, there's a good reason to see red. A person called the "red hat" is to blame. Known officially as the TV commercial timeout coordinator, the official stands on the sidelines, wears a red hat and is responsible for when to stop and start play on the field for commercial breaks. "It's not very easy," said Oliver Dizon,...
  • Battle of the Commercials

    07/17/2009 2:48:33 PM PDT · by Selkirk · 259+ views
    Political Castaway ^ | 7/17/2009 | Selkirk
    The parties have each released new commercials, so we can have our fun with them. First up, the Dems. They would like to use the Palin resignation for their advantage, so they tried to shoehorn a couple of other scenarios to make it look like some pattern by Republicans: [both commercials posted after the jump]
  • Lawmakers Want TV Stations To Dial Down Advertising Volume

    06/12/2009 4:26:45 AM PDT · by AT7Saluki · 48 replies · 1,191+ views
    Dow Jones Newswire ^ | 6/11/09 | Fawn Johnson
    Television commercials are too loud, as most viewers know, and members of Congress want broadcasters to turn down the volume. A bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., would require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to "preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany." That idea is hard to resist, but it might be difficult to mandate. "Many different entities are responsible for producing and distributing the content consumers see and hear," U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., said Thursday at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications Subcommittee.
  • Is Anyone Working On Anti National Health Care Commercials?

    05/14/2009 8:38:32 AM PDT · by Williams · 39 replies · 784+ views
    Vanity Question
    Commercials against Hilary Care were absolutely essential for its defeat. Now, Obama is talking about pushing through a huge national healthcare bill by August! The stories I read make it clear the plan will be a frightening blow to our health and economy. Do we know if anyone is working on an ad campaign to expose the obvious dangers of socialized medicine? We need the House dems from conservative districts to be scared away from this awful nonsense. My wife, a cancer survivor, literally keeps telling me they are going to kill her. Apoparently she has heard reports of how...
  • They’re giving away Oscars, almost giving away the commercials

    02/22/2009 12:11:07 PM PST · by slomark · 19 replies · 594+ views
    ABC Television has slashed the cost of commercials during today’s Academy Awards broadcast. In 2008, 30-second commercials went for as much as $1.8 million. This year, they’re going for as little as $1.4 million. Once considered invulnerable to economic ups and downs, the Academy Awards has discovered that it can’t get away with jacking up the ad rates every year. Especially in a year when all five Best Film nominees have been ignored by movie-goers. Here’s a tip for the Oscars’ nominating committee:
  • 2009 Super Bowl Commercials

    02/03/2009 3:14:16 PM PST · by ConservativeStLouisGuy · 2 replies · 518+ views
    Fanhouse.com ^ | 2-1-09 | (none)
    In case you might have stepped away from the television during yesterday's Super Bowl -- here is a website that contains all the commercials. Enjoy! (Samples below -- more at the website at link.)   Bud Light Office Meeting Audi Transporter Pepsi Forever Young Doritos Snow Globe Bud Light Conan Columbia Year One Toyota Venza Bridgestone Mr. Potato Head Universal Fast & Furious Castrol Grease Monkeys Universal Land of the Lost Doritos Bus GoDaddy.com Shower Budweiser Fetch  
  • 2009 Superbowl Commercials, 10 best and 10 worst

    02/01/2009 9:58:38 PM PST · by Justaham · 17 replies · 1,644+ views
    Fox Sports ^ | 2-1-09
    Riveted by the Steelers' thrilling comeback? Heartbroken by the Cardinals' late lead slipping away? Then we won't begrudge you missing a few of the Super Bowl commercials. In fact, we'll help you out. Go back and watch any commercial you missed, as we list the 10 best ads, 10 worst ads, and provide you with a quarter-by-quarter breakdown of all the commercials.
  • Super Bowl, commercial-free, at Islamic Center (Beer & Bikinis Bad)

    01/29/2009 5:53:19 PM PST · by Sammy67 · 30 replies · 1,151+ views
    Herald News ^ | 1/29/09
    Some 250 teenage boys will pile onto the carpet of the Islamic Center of Passaic County on Sunday to catch the Super Bowl on a big screen. But when the much-buzzed-about commercials come on, they won't be watching. A youth leader manning the projector slaps a piece of paper over the lens, blocking out images the center considers inappropriate, such as beers and bikinis. "The purpose is to keep them away from bad influences," said Emad Hamdeh, the youth committee director. "The beer commercials show people happy while drinking; that's not reality." During the self-imposed blackouts, the boy fans don't...
  • (Vanity) Give Us This Day, or, Lead Us Into Temptation

    01/04/2009 5:42:35 AM PST · by grey_whiskers · 10 replies · 785+ views
    grey_whiskers ^ | 1-4-2009 | grey_whiskers
    "For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world." (1 John 2:16) I was watching TV last night with my family (if you are curious, it was The Smoking Gun presents: The World's Dumbest). The show is a "countdown" of video clips of accidents or mishaps invovling a common theme, punctuated by commentary from a bunch of B-list actors and ex-celebrities (Danny Bonaduce from The Partridge Family, Leif Garrett, Tonya Harding, Gary Busey and some others(*)). It...
  • The Networks say "To Hell with the KIDS"!!!

    12/15/2008 6:11:50 AM PST · by gopmike.com · 75 replies · 1,095+ views
    GOP Mike's Blog ^ | 12/15/08 | GOP Mike
    To my Conservative Friends: As a Conservative and a capitalist, I understand that free-market enterprise and profit are integral to a thriving and growing economy. That being said, I must say the broadcast Networks, in cahoots with the advertisers, have gotten waaaaay out of hand with the downright inappropriate commercials for the kids... Now the networks have chosen to move a lot of the sports programming at night to increase their revenues because they can charge more for ads... Fine... But they should be forced to curtail some of their explicit advertising so the kids can watch... I am not...
  • ..just in case your wondering..(vanity)

    11/11/2008 8:17:44 PM PST · by Doogle · 12 replies · 203+ views
    me
    The latest British Airways commericial "the aquarium".. The song is "the good life" sung by Julie London ..just one of those things I had to look up..enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBwrmEpikPI
  • ideal for TV commercial

    10/11/2008 2:22:48 PM PDT · by starlight · 4 replies · 439+ views
    I have an idea for a commercial .... opens with CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE ..... then you see someone hold out their hand holding some CHANGE (nickels, dimes, etc) talking about how obama plan would worsen economy and small business .... then at end coin toss ... end up on "tails, you lose !"
  • Ads Gone Bad

    08/08/2008 5:47:05 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 28 replies · 116+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | August 8, 2008 | Brent Bozell III
    bad enough that parents have to shield their children from what Hollywood calls entertainment. Now they have to be equally vigilant with the messages and visuals put forward by the advertisers who sponsor that filth. Parents can become discouraged by the sheer intensity of the commercial manipulation of sex. It's everywhere. Reporter Matt Spector of ABCNews.com recently underlined how the hypersexualization of teenagers in advertising is intensifying. A Greek print ad for previously owned BMW autos features a clearly teenage-looking girl shot from her naked shoulders up, her blond hair splayed around her head across the page. The ad's come-hither...
  • Top 10: Worst Male-Bashing Ads

    06/13/2008 10:25:25 AM PDT · by forkinsocket · 190 replies · 1,531+ views
    AskMen.com ^ | Unk. | Marc Voyer
    You’ve seen him plenty of times on sitcoms; he’s the dumb, bumbling, idiot dad, husband and boyfriend who appears useless at everything but bringing home a paycheck. The message: Guys are dumb and women have to lead them around. This, of course, cues the laugh track. Yet a survey from an organization called Children Now found that two-thirds of kid respondents described men on TV as angry, while respondents from another group’s survey said men were portrayed as corrupt on TV by a 17 to 1 margin. Clearly, this is no laughing matter. To highlight companies pushing anti-guy messages, we’ve...
  • Video: 5 Reasons Not To Go To Work

    04/14/2008 2:00:25 PM PDT · by LibertyGrrrl · 25 replies · 62+ views
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI Video: 5 Reasons Not To Go To Work By Rizzuto Mon Apr 14, 2008 - Apparently, this is what passes as a government PSA in Canada. This has got to be one of the most disturbing group of videos I've ever seen, I just had to share it. The screams in the first video are blood curdling. Enjoy!
  • Commodities: Who's Behind the Boom? (And Is It About to End)

    03/29/2008 4:17:47 PM PDT · by shrinkermd · 18 replies · 1,241+ views
    Barron's ^ | GENE EPSTEIN
    CHINA, AS EVERYONE KNOWS, IS A BIG FORCE IN THE extraordinary boom in commodities. Its voracious appetite for everything from corn and wheat to copper and oil has helped push up U.S. commodities prices by some 50% over the past 12 months. But China is by no means the whole story. Speculators -- including small investors -- are also playing a huge role. Thanks to the proliferation of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds tied to commodities indexes, speculative buying has gone way beyond anything the domestic commodities markets have ever seen. By one estimate, index funds right now account for...
  • Sneak Peek: Coca-Cola Super Bowl Ad (Sen. Bill Frist and James Carville)

    02/01/2008 1:36:38 PM PST · by RDTF · 28 replies · 160+ views
    aol video ^ | Jan 2, 2008 | AP video
    Democrat James Carville and former Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) star in one of Co...ca-Cola's Super Bowl commercials. Watch it here before it debuts during the game.
  • Back To The Cave, Man

    08/11/2007 1:39:54 AM PDT · by chessplayer · 83 replies · 2,031+ views
    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - There are so many negative vibes around "Cavemen" that at least one TV critic is taking bets that it won't even get on the air. The ABC series based on Geico insurance commercials has gone beyond being just another stupid sitcom. Questions are being raised about whether the Cro-Magnon characters will reinforce racial stereotypes.
  • Row over Beatles song used in nappy advert

    Some Beatles fans in the US are angry that the 1967 Beatles hit 'All You Need Is Love' is being used in a new ad campaign for disposable nappies. “For people who feel that political connection, it comes off as kind of a callous action,” said Angela Natividad, co-editor of adrants.com, a marketing commentary site. “You’ve got the Beatles, which draws like, religious feelings, and you’ve got the war [Vietnam].”
  • Rush Limbaugh Live Radio Thread. 05/21/07

    05/21/2007 8:42:16 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 454 replies · 7,008+ views
  • Introducing...the Swedish Bikini Team

    04/16/2007 11:13:20 AM PDT · by WesternCulture · 24 replies · 2,164+ views
    www,thelocal.se ^ | 04/16/2007 | Paul O'Mahony
    Introducing...the Swedish Bikini Team Published: 16th April 2007 16:03 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/7014/ They might be as Swedish as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but they have been flying the blue and yellow colours for more than fifteen years. This week's Introducing... gets up close and personal with the Swedish Bikini Team - Who are they and why are they famous? The Swedish Bikini Team stepped out of the sea and into the limelight in 1991. Once accurately described as 'vixens of beerdom', the swimwear Swedes quickly skedaddled off the scene and were last spotted dancing to rock music in a...
  • Top 5 "Get a Mac" Spoofs(humor)

    03/03/2007 8:39:12 PM PST · by aft_lizard · 1 replies · 355+ views
    The funniest one is the definately the #1 one.
  • Super Bowl Ads of Cartoonish Violence, Perhaps Reflecting Toll of War

    02/05/2007 9:21:24 AM PST · by Loud Mime · 61 replies · 1,439+ views
    New York Times ^ | 2/5/2007 | Stuart Elliot
    No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly addressed Iraq, unlike a patriotic spot for Budweiser beer that ran during the game two years ago. But the ongoing war seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials. More than a dozen spots celebrated violence in an exaggerated, cartoonlike vein that was intended to be humorous, but often came across as cruel or callous.
  • The OFFICIAL Superbowl Commercial Thread

    02/04/2007 3:00:33 PM PST · by blu · 149 replies · 5,261+ views
    I have neither started nor maintained a thread for football commercials in the past...
  • Superbowl COMMERCIALS Thread (Discuss Superbowl Commercials: Good, Bad, and Ugly)

    02/04/2007 10:05:19 AM PST · by PJ-Comix · 354 replies · 5,686+ views
    Self | February 4, 2007 | PJ-Comix
    Half the FUn (maybe more) of watching the Superbowl is seeing the commercials. Remember, the ad agencies try to put their most creative commercials on during the Superbowl. Therefore, the purpose of this discussion thread will be to analyze today's Superbowl commercials: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. There seems to be a concensus that the best Superbowl commercials were the 1984 Apple commercial introducing the Mac and the original Budweiser frogs commercial. In the hours leading into tonight's Superbowl, feel free to post your fave (and most hated) Superbowl commercials. Once the game begins, let us have an...
  • If you go to the game, you'll miss the show (Dave Barry)

    02/04/2007 8:04:31 AM PST · by nuconvert · 17 replies · 860+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | Feb. 4, 2007 | Dave Barry
    If you go to the game, you'll miss the show By DAVE BARRY It's Super Bowl Sunday at last. Finally -- after all the hype, all the parties, all the talk -- we will get to see what the Super Bowl is really, in the end, all about: the TV commercials. There will be a lot of them, because the total Super Bowl broadcast package runs longer than the administration of the late Gerald Ford, having begun two weeks ago with the pre -pre -pre -pre-pre-pre-pre-pregame show (Peyton Manning: The Early Bowel Movements). You will not want to miss a...
  • CBS.com Superbowls Greatest Commercials

    02/02/2007 11:33:32 AM PST · by EveningStar · 19 replies · 1,122+ views
    Watch and join in the laughter as these all-time favorite Super Bowl commercials entertain you all over again. People have voted for which of their favorite classic commercials should face off against perennial Super Bowl commercial favorite “Mean Joe Green” for this year’s title. The most voted for commercial will be revealed during the Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials 2007 special and east coast viewers will be able to vote online to determine the final title holder. Will it be “Mean Joe Green” or the “challenger?” Don’t miss the Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials 2007 special for your chance to vote for...
  • MEPs may prevent product placement on TV

    11/07/2006 8:46:20 PM PST · by bruinbirdman · 1 replies · 205+ views
    The Times ^ | 11/8/06 | Dan Sabbagh
    Members of the European Parliament are threatening to derail attempts to introduce product placement in television programmes, amid opposition led by German MEPS. Ruth Hieronmyi, the German MEP acting as rapporteur to the revision of Europe’s Television Without Frontiers Directive, said that there was no consensus in the Parliament on liberalising the rules. The MEP told The Times: “Product placement, and any other advertising-related topics, are still controversial. Members believe there should be anything from no regulation to 100 per cent regulation — we shall have to see what achieves a majority.” On Monday, the Parliament is to form its...
  • Local Issues Mirror National Ones, but the Special Effects Occasionally Stand Alone

    11/02/2006 9:25:10 AM PST · by lowbridge · 3 replies · 256+ views
    New York Times ^ | November 2, 2006 | Pam Belluck
    The school board race in Rockingham County, N.C., has produced imagery including, from left, Pink Floyd, “Star Wars,” and the Wild West.The election season is getting punchier in places far from the national political spotlight — even in Eden, N.C., where 16 candidates are slugging it out for the five available seats on the Rockingham County School Board. One of them produced a television advertisement suggesting that the school system turned children into automatons. It is shot against a backdrop of a Pink Floyd video showing children coursing through an assembly line to the lyrics: “We don’t need no education....
  • Pentagon to use Dr. Scholl's commercials for psychological torture

    10/23/2006 6:25:08 AM PDT · by gurued · 9 replies · 365+ views
    newsbender ^ | 10-20-06 | newsbender
    Washington, DC— Donald Rumsfeld confirmed reports the Pentagon would begin using Dr. Scholl’s commercials as a psychological resource in the war on terror.
  • Comedy director David Zucker goes to GOP? You can't be serious!

    10/06/2006 12:51:25 PM PDT · by Keltik · 72 replies · 4,509+ views
    Jewish Journal ^ | 10-06-2006 | Marc Ballo
    David Zucker, the producer and director of "Airplane," "The Naked Gun" and "Scary Movie 4," embraced the Republican Party in 2004 and voted for President Bush, largely because of security concerns. Once a liberal activist and campaign adviser to President Bill Clinton, he made a low-budget anti-Kerry ad that ran mostly in Ohio and kept his political change-of-heart largely under Hollywood's radar. Not now. Zucker sees threats to America and Israel mounting, and he believes the Democrats are unable or unwilling to confront those challenges, so he has decided to go public with his belief that the Democrats have lost...
  • FX channel tries commercial to combat ad-skipping

    09/15/2006 5:44:41 PM PDT · by Dysart · 10 replies · 184+ views
    Yahoo-Reuters ^ | 9-15-06 | wire
    LONDON (Reuters) - Niche men's channel FX plans to show what it calls the first UK advert specially designed to combat viewers using digital recorders to avoid commercials. The advert for its new drama "Brotherhood" will show a single image on the screen for the entire 30-second slot, and therefore retain its "sales message" when viewed even at the 12-times speeds enabled by Sky+ and other digital recorders, also known as personal video recorders, or PVRs.Advertisers have been racing to find ways to get messages through as higher numbers of consumers watch TV programs when they want using such recorders,...
  • Best and worst commercials of the year

    08/22/2006 6:50:44 PM PDT · by indcons · 485 replies · 9,730+ views
    MSNBC ^ | Aug 22, 2006 | Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
    Only one commercial can top the sheer hatred our readers have for the winner of this year's worst-commercial contest. Yes, only creepy, toenail-snapping Digger the Dermatophyte is more hated than the horrendous repetition that is this year's winning loser, the HeadOn headache remedy commercial. In case you haven't seen it (you can find it on YouTube, but really, why would you want to?), the commercial is as insanely simple as it is annoying. A female voice repeats "HeadOn: Apply directly to the forehead!" three times as a blissed-out smug woman rolls what appears to be a Bonne Bell LipSmacker on...
  • Snap, Crackle & Pop the New Online Predators?

    07/27/2006 2:14:50 PM PDT · by freemarket_kenshepherd · 7 replies · 417+ views
    Business & Media Institute ^ | July 27, 2 006 | Ken Shepherd
    What’s next, a “Dateline NBC” sting operation to snag Toucan Sam? Basing her story on a July 19 study by the liberal Kaiser Family Foundation, ABC’s Lisa Stark offered the audience of the July 26 “World News Tonight” a look at the “Wild West” world of food marketing on the Internet geared to kids, complete with flashy games on company Web sites. Yet Stark’s expert is no dispassionate medical professional. The Yale doctor signed a petition circulated by the left-wing Center for a Commercial Free Childhood that attacked “purveyors of junk food” for using “public schools as a platform for...
  • A TV that forces you to watch ads? It's possible

    04/21/2006 5:42:38 AM PDT · by Izzy Dunne · 47 replies · 989+ views
    MSNBC ^ | April 20,2006 | Unknown
    Philips technology could let broadcasters freeze channel during commercial SAN JOSE, Calif. - In this era of easy ad skipping with TiVo-like video recorders, could television viewers one day be forced to watch commercials with a system that prevents channel switching? Yes, according to Royal Philips Electronics. A patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says researchers of the Netherland-based consumer electronics company have created a technology that could let broadcasters freeze a channel during a commercial, so viewers wouldn't be able to avoid it.
  • Venues of vulgarity

    04/19/2006 11:03:03 AM PDT · by JZelle · 58 replies · 1,401+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 4-19-06 | Mona Charen
    A couple of weeks ago I was felled by a particularly nasty flu. Too sick even to read, I listened to radio and watched television for long hours every day. What I heard and saw was not conducive to recovery. I admit to being a little "out of the loop" as I almost never watch entertainment television on the major stations. But the level of vulgarity that now seems utterly ordinary is just unbelievable. Bud Light has a series of radio commercials that celebrate "Real Men of Genius," a very tongue-in-cheek tribute to the ordinary guys whose greatest accomplishment, these...
  • Un-Pimp your ride. VW commercial humor

    02/28/2006 7:16:52 AM PST · by Lx · 108 replies · 5,665+ views
    If anyone hasn't seen the hilarious new VW commercials, here are all three of them. Admin mods, please move if I posted it in the wrong place. http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/02/22/vw-strikes-again-un-pimp-my-ride-videos/
  • Super Bowl Commericals Rundown...Best and Worst..

    02/07/2006 8:56:04 AM PST · by dson7_ck1249 · 34 replies · 1,629+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | 2/6/2006 | Katherine Favazza
    I always enjoy watching the Super Bowl, but it usually feels like I’m watching a foreign film without subtitles. This year, I thought Super Bowl XL would be a perfect opportunity to learn some football terminology by applying it to the part of the game I already know and love: the commercials...
  • TiVo Announces Top 10 Viewed Super Bowl Ads

    02/06/2006 10:10:22 AM PST · by Pyro7480 · 19 replies · 502+ views
    Designtechnica News ^ | 2/6/2006 | Nino Marchetti
    TiVo Announces Top 10 Viewed Super Bowl AdsBy Nino Marchetti Staff Writer, Designtechnica News Ameriquest's two commercials lead the pack, based upon DVR company's post-game analysis of user viewing behaviors. TiVo’s annual post Super Bowl analysis of viewer reactions to the commercials today revealed that, of the dozens of multi-million dollar spots that aired, Ameriquest’s two ads landed at the top of the pack. Also revealed, according to user viewing data, was how a controversial call in the second quarter put actual Super Bowl viewing time on par with some of the commercials. TiVo, the company said, did their annual...
  • 2006 Super Bowl Commercials thread

    02/05/2006 10:41:05 AM PST · by raccoonradio · 13 replies · 540+ views
    IFilm SuperBowl Ads ^ | 02/05/06 | raccoonradio
    Sometimes they're the most entertaining part of the Super Bowl--the ads. Big money might equal big profits--if they can get our attention, make us laugh, etc. Will we remember the ad but not the product, though? Link is to a site that will have the ads available for viewing after they've run on TV (or maybe before, too?) FReepers, if you liked--or hated, hated, HATED--an ad, tell us about it here.
  • Wal-Mart Taps Destiny's Child, Queen Latifah For Ads [These Christmas commercials drive left crazy]

    12/06/2005 2:56:40 AM PST · by summer · 14 replies · 1,349+ views
    AP via Access Hollywood ^ | Nov 2, 2005 | AP
    Destiny's Child In a first for Wal-Mart, the retailer has recruited celebrities like Garth Brooks and Destiny's Child to appear in holiday television and print ads. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. started its holiday campaign Tuesday, the first time the world's largest retailer has run ads this early in the season, company officials said. It's the first time Wal-Mart has used celebrities in an ad campaign, which will also include country singer Martina McBride, pop star Jesse McCartney and actress and singer Queen Latifah. The ads will feature each of the celebrities at their actual homes to fit with the theme, "Home...
  • New radio commercials support war effort

    11/11/2005 9:45:54 AM PST · by Impeach98 · 385+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 11/11/2005 | Joseph Farah
    New radio commercials support war effortMove America Forward releases spots, praises TV ad thanking U.S. Posted: November 11, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A national pro-troops organization has unveiled three new radio ads meant to bolster support for the Iraq war effort and encourage Americans not to give up on the fight against terrorism. Move America Forward says its radio ads will run first in the Sacramento, Calif., market in hopes of getting the City Council there to rescind a resolution passed last week that called for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and bases from Iraq. "We...
  • Drummer closes doors on $20 million

    10/09/2005 3:50:59 PM PDT · by dennisw · 171 replies · 3,919+ views
    timesonline. ^ | October 08, 2005 | By Chris Ayres
    Is it simple selling or selling out? We report on a band at odds over ad revenue THE drummer of the Doors has infuriated his former bandmates by turning down nearly $20 million to use their music to sell computers and cars. John Densmore has a legal right to veto the use of the band’s music for advertising. And that is exactly what he is doing. He says that he is holding out to honour the memory of the band’s lead singer, Jim Morrison, who died in Paris from a suspected heroin overdose in 1971, aged 27. “People lost their...
  • Hollywood, Oregon (Governor Signs Bill To Bring Film Industry Jobs To Oregeon)

    09/14/2005 6:53:46 AM PDT · by jscottdavis_for_48th_district · 21 replies · 577+ views
    (Enter Link Here) State of Oregon ^ | 14 SEPTEMBER 2005 | Press Release: State of Oregon
    Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski recently traveled to Hollywood to meet with studio executives and talk about ideas to increase production in Oregon. The Governor and a bipartisan group of legislators created "GREENLIGHT OREGON," a package of incentives that will help make Oregon a serious player in the competition for major film and television productions. This will create jobs in Oregon, in the United States, and generate millions of dollars for the ecconomy. I fully support this bill since it will help to keep "Hollywood" in the United States instead of major studios going outside of the country to shoot in...
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Expected To Announce Tax Breaks For Film Companies To Keep Them In California

    09/17/2005 1:03:21 PM PDT · by jscottdavis_for_48th_district · 94 replies · 1,255+ views
    ArnoldWatch.Org, The Daily News of Los Angeles ^ | 17 SEPTEMBER 2005 | Harrison Sheppard
    Trying to fend off increasingly tough competition from other states and foreign countries, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to announce a plan soon to grant tax breaks for film companies to help them meet production expenses and stay in California. J. Scott Davis
  • Families of servicemembers killed in Iraq turned away at Pentagon

    01/21/2005 5:46:01 PM PST · by Former Military Chick · 24 replies · 1,070+ views
    Stars and Stripes ^ | January 21, 2005 | Leo Shane III,
    WASHINGTON — Pentagon police on Wednesday turned away family members of troops killed in Iraq who wanted to confront Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the reasons for the war in Iraq. The group of about 20 was stopped before entering Pentagon property by about a dozen officers, who told the protesters they did not have the proper permission to enter the building. Organizers said they have been petitioning for the meeting for weeks, but department officials are ignoring their requests. “The man who was too busy to personally sign the Killed in Action letters these families received is apparently...
  • Skipping TV ads illegal in Japan? (sound familiar?)

    07/17/2005 7:01:03 PM PDT · by ChildOfThe60s · 21 replies · 743+ views
    C-Net ^ | July 15, 2005 10:58 AM PDT | John Borland
    Skipping TV ads illegal in Japan? Ok, everyone's joked at one time or another that the TV commercials during some show or other (probably the Super Bowl) were better than the actual programming. But we didn't actually mean it, did we? In the U.S., broadcasters and advertisers have long been worried about the effects of TiVo and other digital recorders on ad-watching. That anxiety is spreading to Japan, where broadcasters are now saying that skipping commercials is actually a violation of that country's Copyright Law . To combat the ungrateful public's growing ad-skipping, the country's National Association of Commercial Broadcasters...
  • LIVE 8 -Live Thread

    07/02/2005 9:39:24 AM PDT · by My Favorite Headache · 694 replies · 10,549+ views
    MTV/VH1 | 7-2-05 | my favorite headache
    Well...we are 37 minutes into the supposed "global concert of a lifetime" and MTV has managed to show 12 minutes of commercials for reality programming,interrupted 3 performances,and have shown a highlights package from the UK with the biggest names of the day already performing. Yep. MTV has found a way to not show music on a day where music is all around them. So away with the Live 8 thread....
  • Networks Set To Begin Airing Condom Ads In Prime Time

    03/16/2005 9:14:39 PM PST · by Just Kimberly · 44 replies · 863+ views
    American Family Association ^ | 3-16-05 | Donald Wildmon,Founder and Chairman
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