-The recently completed World Series was a success for Fox, despite the fact that the Boston Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies in four. Game 4 drew 20.9 million viewers, up from last year’s Game 4 World Series between Detroit and St. Louis. The series altogether drew an average of 17.1 million viewers, up 8 percent from the Detroit-St. Louis […]
The merger of two of the largest beer makers (behind Anheuser-Busch) will create a huge No. 2 presence in the beer industry, and will have a tremendous impact on buying and selling ad time for major sporting events – not the mention the Chicago based ad agencies who create the spots.
Several blue-chip advertisers are passing on Kid Nation, the controversial Lord of the Files-type reality show where kids 8-to-15 years old build and run their own town without the help of any adults. Among the advertisers skipping the show are Procter & Gamble, Ford Motor Co., and Anheuser-Busch (obviously.) The program has been dogged for weeks with allegations of child-labor […]
Yep, you’ve come a long way, baby. And this Heineken commercial Bob Garfield reviews seems stuck in 1973 in concept. Worst. Commercial. Ever. (Except for those stupid Hyundai spots and the Viagra-deprived old guy on those DirectTV NFL Sunday Ticket ads…) UPDATE: The ad community responded and many came into defense of the ad, pretty much proof that either the […]
It’s dated two weeks ago, but Chicago rapper Twista fires back at his critics in his Red Eye column – namely Rev. Pflager, who applauded McDonalds for dropping him from a Chicago concert sponsored by the food chain. The bigger question is, what the heck Twista’s doing having a column in Red Eye to begin with (and not the Chicago […]
Happened to be downtown today and saw the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile pass through State Street. Well, it turns out that a few minutes later, that same Weinermobile was ticketed for parking on North Michigan Avenue, a Chicago no-no.
McDonald’s dumped alleged rapper Twista, the biggest embarrassing export out of Chicago since Jenny McCarthy and Jim Belushi, from a concert that’s scheduled to take place today. Something about his lyrics? Thought it was about his talent, or lack thereof….
A ratings decline of 24 percent for local newscasts over the last ten years on Detroit’s television stations haven’t stopped ad rates for those newscasts from escalating, according to Crain’s Detroit Business. Ratings are down for the early-fringe and 11 p.m. newscasts on the market’s three stations that does late news: Fox owned-WJBK-TV, Post-Newsweek’s NBC affiliate WDIV, and Scripps’ ABC […]
State Farm and Home Depot have pulled their advertising from Hot Ghetto Mess, a new show about racial stereotypes that premieres on BET on July 25. Rats. And this comes one day after the critics’ polls for worst show comes out…. Makes them look silly for picking 24 as 2nd-worst show in TV Week.
There is a sitcom in development at ABC that is based on – get this – The Geico Caveman.The copywriter behind those ads would also create and write the sitcom. Alright, which TV executive stepped into a time machine and went back to 1967 to get this inane idea? Next thing you know, The CW will develop a sitcom around […]
More on the Super Bowl ads, which became a super joke: – Phil Rosenthal wrote in the Tribune that the like the Bears, the ads fell short of goal, especially the CareerBuilder.com ad, which ditched the popular monkeys for workers in the jungle. (Personally, I wish they would put more effort into making a better connection between job seekers and […]
Interesting observations about the Super Bowl XLI ratings: – The game averaged a 42.6 rating and 64 share, according to Nielsen – the highest rated Super Bowl since 2000. The game itself pulled in 93.1 million viewers – the third most-watched television broadcast of all time – behind the final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983 (The all-time champ with 105.9 […]
[This was originally posted Monday night, but was taken down because of technical and editing problems – but it’s back up now -enjoy! :0) ]A little footnote : This isn’t the most creative batch of commercials to come out this year. The effort -much like the game – was sloppy. On that note, here are the The T Dog Blog’s […]
Later today, We’ll post our top ten best Super Bowl commercials (along with video of the winner), but for now – here is the top ten worst (I suppose if Rex Grossman’s performance was an ad, it would easily top the list….) Here’s the top ten (we’ll do the Casey Kasem style from 10 -to-1 – in the best SB […]
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