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CBS postpones its plans to air Michael Jackson special next week
Associated Press ^
| 11-19-03
| DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
Posted on 11/19/2003 2:30:04 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:44:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS pulled a Michael Jackson music special planned for next week, saying it would be "inappropriate" to air given the new charges that the star molested a child.
Authorities in Santa Barbara, Calif. issued an arrest warrant for the pop star on molestation charges. Jackson has denied the charges.
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
You mean we're gonna miss the R. Kelly-Michael Jackson duet!?
Awwww...
Just damn.
If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
11/19/2003 2:58:13 PM PST
by
mhking
To: All
this thread
LOL!!!
To: Amerigomag
Not a chance..
Wacko Jacko is feeling so much heat...his damned nose will melt..
He's finished...finally.
The pervert millionair is in all likelihood going to lose everything that remains in his possession..
That's okay -- because he already owns the wardrobe necessary for a doorman's job or greeter at some whorehouse.....
That is assuming he exits prison in good conditon...
Semper Fi
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:02:10 PM PST
by
river rat
(War works......It brings Peace... Give war a chance to destroy Jihadists...)
To: OESY
The special, "Michael Jackson Number Ones," was to air next Wednesday at 10 p.m. EST, to coincide with the release of a greatest hits package. Do you think CBS should rename the special, "Michael Jackson's High Eleven: His Greatest Hits on Young Boys"? But would it be salacious enough for the Queer Eye at CBS?
But, there's nothing like a good cigarette afterwards!
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:04:00 PM PST
by
OESY
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Another winner for Les Moonves.
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:04:29 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: So Cal Rocket
They may be winning the November sweeps but that's like saying "We just captured 60% of the CD market!" as media sales go digital. Year-on-year viewership is declining. Kind of like the cell phone companies claiming all the new subscribers while saying nothing about the retention rate. Relatively hollow victories.
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:06:06 PM PST
by
mpreston
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Schadenfreude Bump!
To: Wright is right!
Michael,
Nielsen Media Research collects audience data among a specific sample of homes across the 55 "Metered" markets on a 24-7-365 basis and there is a National "NTI" number available as well. These National and Metered Market "ratings" provide only Household-level detail.
"Sweeps" - there are four "Major" ones in a year: November, February, May and July (In the same order of relative importance) - produce detail on WHO in those households is watching what across ALL 210 DMA's for those months only.
Technically, there are ratings figures available by 10 AM the following day for any broadcast...what is NOT available yet is the ratings detail for the entire sweep period. In the sweeps, Nielsen collects/estimates program performance among demographic groups....THAT level of detail is released after the sweep is over.
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:13:37 PM PST
by
Range Rover
(If you feel you don't love me, feel again.)
To: martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; Miss Marple; Tamsey; ...
This is the New York Times CBS Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:17:46 PM PST
by
Timesink
(I'm not a big fan of electronic stuff, you know? Beeps ... beeps freak me out. They're bad.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If Michael Jackson goes to prison as a convicted child molester, he'll star in a very different kind of "Thriller" creatively produced by a very serious cast of inmates.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
CBS has not announced what will air in place of the special next week.A CSI repeat. Bet on it.
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:21:38 PM PST
by
Timesink
(I'm not a big fan of electronic stuff, you know? Beeps ... beeps freak me out. They're bad.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
As Rush would say, "Hee hee hee".
To: So Cal Rocket
CBS had six of the top ten. That shows just how crummy network television really is.
To: hispanarepublicana
know I'd cancel ALL prior engagements just to sit home and watch Green Acres reruns..... Somebody would complain that Arnold's a pig. No, wait... the California recall is over.
-PJ
To: Oldeconomybuyer
CBS: You want us to watch? Get Grissom and Gappy-Tooth Chick together on CSI! And what happened with Grissom's hearing, anyway? He was going to have surgery last season, and this season the only thing different is his beard. Very sexy, IMO. But did the facial hair correct his hearing loss? And should a CSI have facial hair? What if it falls into the evidence? Get them together. We will watch.
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:29:32 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So, I wonder what Babs has to say about this censorship?
LOL. Poor, poor CBS. Make a special with a guy accused of molestation in the past and what happens? Lie down with perverts, you get perverted.
patent
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:35:50 PM PST
by
patent
(A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So, let me put this into perspective: they were all ready to air a special, glorifying a child molestor (prior to this latest allegation), while at the same time, airing a miniseries that trashes the greatest president of the 20th century. Yep, no bias there!
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:42:41 PM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
To: OESY
"Ooh, it's that creepy eye!"
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posted on
11/19/2003 3:52:03 PM PST
by
Timesink
(I'm not a big fan of electronic stuff, you know? Beeps ... beeps freak me out. They're bad.)
To: Wright is right!
Despite the two cancellations, CBS is dominating the November ratings period." Cite? Ratings? Link? No, the article provides no data BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY YET. We're still IN the sweeps period - you get the ratings after the sweep is over. This little gratuitous sentence is whole fiction and has no place in the article
They are winning the rationgs night to night per say...so if they win the majority of the nights then they will most likely win sweeps ratings come in night to night....
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Despite the two cancellations, CBS is dominating the November ratings period. That's not saying much for current programing. (that's coming from someone waiting for Rowan and Martin to return)
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:04:57 PM PST
by
tubebender
(FReeRepublic...How bad have you got it...)
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