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...according to the 15-million member Southern Baptist Convention, which has decided to boycott Disney for its "gay friendly policies." Disney's worst offense? The decision to bring Ellen Degeneres' character out of the closet on the sitcom "Ellen," produced by Walt Disney Television and shown on Disney subsidiary ABC. Mouse Central is keeping mum. Last year, the Convention issued a warning to Disney about the evils of "Gay Days" at company theme parks and same-sex partner health benefits. Disney survived. Richard Land, executive director of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission, maintains that whether or not Disney pays...
...heavyweight advertisers are headed in different directions, including Domino's Pizza, Delta Air Lines, Reebok and the ABC television network. Account changes are rippling at a record pace through the U.S. advertising industry, which handled $52 billion in domestic media billings last year. (Billings measure clients' ad spending, on which agencies take a cut as fees; 15% used to be standard, although the rate varies.) The U.S. Army, beset by sex scandals and an increasingly hard time recruiting new soldiers, is putting its $80 million account--now held by Young & Rubicam--up for review. That couldn't be more fitting...
...familiar TV gimmick: Watch the characters' eyes, not their lips. Though the television industry claims to still be in negotiations with Washington over a new rating system, it is ready to consent to Washington's wishes. ABC, CBS, FOX and cable are ready to make the most likely fix, adding (S)ex, (L)anguage and (V)iolence to the current system, but only when Congress offers some sort of assurance that this is the last campaign in the ratings war. "This really is a Kabuki dance in so many ways; my lips are saying no, but my eyes are saying...
WILLOW BAY Might attract sports Not much industry GMA/Sunday fans (she co-hosts credibility. She co-anchor NBA Inside Stuff). started out as a Oh, and she's married model, after all, to ABC's president. not a newswoman...
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN A resume chock-full Can't quite see Prime Time Live of heavy-hitting, her whipping up an correspondent, ABC award-winning, egg-white omelette serious-journalist with Richard Simmons. stuff...