July 9, 2010
Our take action links to email Lowe’s over their advertising practices has generated some of the greatest response we have yet seen with our action email feature. Lowe’s had advertised on ABC’s new programs: “The Gates” and “Scoundrels.” Both of these programs feature lascivious sex scenes and normalization of the occult and crime.
As Lowe’s began to receive our expressions of concern regarding advertising on those particular shows, they sent an email response to us directly that startled us. (Continue Reading…)
April 22, 2010
Plus-sized lingerie models won’t be seen on ABC or Fox networks
NEW YORK – Lane Bryant is up in arms that two networks — Fox and ABC — have resisted airing a sexy lingerie ad featuring busty, plus-sized models in time periods where the networks have broadcast other racy fare.
In a post on LB’s Inside Curve blog, the clothing company complains that “ABC and Fox have made the decision to define beauty for you by denying our new, groundbreaking Cacique commercial from airing freely on their networks.”
The ad, which was initially available on Youtube and at the company’s website, has since been removed.
The post also claims that ABC “restricted our airtime” and refused to air the spot during “Dancing With the Stars,” while Fox “demanded excessive re-edits and rebuffed it three times before relenting to air it during the final 10 minutes of ‘American Idol’ but only after we threatened to pull the ad buy.” (Continue Reading…)
February 1, 2010
Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown says he has “no regrets” about posing nude for a 1982 Cosmopolitan magazine photo spread. In an exclusive ABC “This Week” interview (January 31), Brown told Barbara Walters “you have to have a sense of humor about yourself,” and links the centerfold to many of his successes that came later in life. “If I hadn’t done that… I never would have been sitting here with you. It’s all connected,” Brown told Walters.
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