Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

TV 'Plot Placement' Yields ABC a Big Advertising Buy
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/15/02 | Joe Flint and Emily Nelson

Posted on 03/15/2002 9:29:02 AM PST by GeneD

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Susan Lucci's Erica Kane has battled kidnappers, posed as a nun, been married nine times, and stared down a grizzly bear in her rise from beauty queen to evil executive on the long-running ABC soap opera "All My Children." Now she will face her biggest threat -- Revlon.


(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: abc; allmychildren; revloninc; soapoperas; susanlucci; waltdisneycompany
Revlon sponsored The $64,000 Question, one of the most notorious of the quiz-show-scandal enterprises; this sounds like par for the course.

But given that Kraft Foods and GM sponsor al-Jazeera we shouldn't be surprised at anything these advertising cretins do.

1 posted on 03/15/2002 9:29:02 AM PST by GeneD
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: GeneD
Kraft Foods and GM sponsor al-Jazeera

Huh? Please explain. Revlon was Billyjeff's employer of choice for his discarded girlfriends, though, wasn't it?

2 posted on 03/15/2002 9:39:24 AM PST by mountaineer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson