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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Broadcast executives insist that their plight has been overplayed, that it's too early to tell which of the 38 shows debuting on the six networks this fall will be hits. Ad sales for this season, after all, are at record levels. And yet there's a sense among many in the industry that the networks are not facing up to the fact that times have changed for good. "They are operating in a way that is old-fashioned, outdated and self-destructive," says Peter Roth, president of Fox Entertainment Group. "The networks have to change the way they...
...some Website banner ad invites you to "Click Here" to learn more about "Blah, blah, blah," and you think, "Not even if they paid me." Are you sure? What if reading a sales brochure, filling out a survey or making a purchase actually paid down the balance on your VISA card...
Thursday?s nuggets: Clinton pregnant warning to donors at a May 1996 White House dinner, "This (election) could get away from us in a hurry." And his blatant admission at a Michigan fund-raiser: That a Democratic Party TV ad campaign financed by "soft-money" donations was "central to the position I now enjoy in the polls...
While I have since accepted that the Ad Board, in forcing me to leave for a semester, acted in my best interests, the decision and its impact were presented so coldly and disinterestedly that it almost became the final straw that pushed me to suicide. Only a serendipitous e-mail note from a friend, urging me not to "let them win" pulled me back from the abyss. In the end, the only official body which addressed my condition nearly killed me in the process...
...automakers don't want restraints on energy demand. And unions and members of Clinton's Treasury Department fear that a tax or some other mechanism for broadly raising energy prices could stifle economic growth and make motorists surly. Already an industry coalition has started a $13 million TV ad campaign predicting a 50[cent] increase in gas prices, which Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has denounced as "worthy of the best efforts of the tobacco industry...