2 Networks Are Accused of Rejecting Ad on Religious Bias
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The United Church of Christ, one of the nation&#39;s most liberal Christian denominations, accused CBS and NBC yesterday of rejecting a commercial it had produced about religious
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Last Friday, television stations that were members of the Sinclair Media Group were scheduled to air an anti-John Kerry special called Stolen Honor. They were ordered to by executives of the company - the same execs who forbid the 62 TV stations the company controls from airing Ted Koppel's reading of the names of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq this spring.
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The New York television station WNET has rejected a promotion for "Kinsey," a film that has triggered protests among some conservative groups, because it is too provocative, the station said on Friday.
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Washington - The national organ transplant network is asking hospitals to discourage patients from advertising for donors and, if possible, to refuse to perform transplants that arise from these campaigns.
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By NEDRA PICKLER  WASHINGTON - Two bloggers hired recently by Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards were criticized Tuesday by a Catholic group for posts they had written elsewhere on the Internet.
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The BBC Trust rejects an Opus Dei complaint that drama Waking The Dead cast them in a bad light.
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The NFL Network has rejected two proposals from Time Warner Cable that would have allowed New York-area viewers to watch Rutgers and Kansas State in the Texas Bowl.
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The creators of  &quot;South Park&quot; lambasted Comedy Central Thursday for removing an  episode that lampooned Scientology and Tom Cruise from the  network&#039;s repeat schedule and for blanking out the image of  Muhammad during another episode.
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TAMPA, Fla. - Radio giant Clear Channel Communications has come under fire from women's health advocates over a Christmas contest in which stations granted breast enlargement surgeries to women in four cities.
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The United Church of Christ is trying to air what three TV networks see as a controversial ad. The ad says the Church wants to reach out to those people it says
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A religious battle is taking place on the Internet, with two very different groups arguing over the existence of God.
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NEW YORK  - Turner Broadcasting System on Thursday tried to quell a firestorm of controversy in Boston a day after a guerrilla marketing campaign for a cable television show was mistaken for a terrorist plot to bomb the Hub.
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HACKETTSTOWN, N.J.  --  A commercial for Snickers candy bars launched in the Super Bowl broadcast was benched after its maker got complaints that it was homophobic.
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS  Two bloggers hired recently by Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards were criticized Tuesday by a Catholic group for posts they had written elsewhere on the Internet.
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By Matt Tullis and Dennis M . Mahon, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 3--The National Football League told an Indianapolis church: Thou  shalt not allow thy congregation to watch the Super Bowl on a projection  television.
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A radio station Sunday denied a talk show host's claim that was fired because he criticized CBS newsman Dan Rather's handling of challenges to the authenticity of memos about President Bush's National Guard service.
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A backlash over a spate of advertising with suicide themes has raised questions about ads that are deliberately provocative.