Sixty-six ABC affiliates chose not to run ``Saving Private Ryan&#39;&#39;
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Sixty-six ABC affiliates, covering nearly one-third of the country, ultimately decided not to air the movie &quot;Saving Private Ryan&quot; on Veterans Day due to skittishness over whether the Federal Communications Commission would deem it indecent.
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ABC ran the movie &quot;Saving Private Ryan&quot; in many cities across the US Thursday night. But Cincinnati was not one of them.
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ABC television, backed by Republican Sen. John McCain and other leading conservatives, sought on Thursday to keep nervous affiliate stations from deserting a Veterans Day broadcast of the acclaimed World War II film "Saving Private Ryan."
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Do you think ABC affiliates, including WRIC, should have pulled Steven Spielberg&#39;s &quot;Saving Private Ryan&quot; from the schedule?
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TV stations across the US drop a screening of Saving Private Ryan over fears they could be fined.
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The management of WNCF-TV, the ABC network affiliate in Montgomery, deserves a crisp salute for not bowing to pressure to pre-empt the movie &quot;Saving Private Ryan&quot; on Veterans Day.
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ABC moved forward with its miniseries "The Path to 9/11" on Sunday despite angry calls from former Clinton administration officials not to air it because it contained fabricated scenes about their actions prior to terrorist attacks.
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Whether it&#39;s true there is no such thing as bad publicity, ABC-TV certainly garnered its share of notice for its Sunday night hit show &quot;Desperate Housewives&#39;&#39; with
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Nearly a third of ABC&#39;s TV affiliates, citing concerns over profanity, graphic violence and a government crackdown on indecency, refused to show the network&#39;s Veterans
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Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said yesterday he was disappointed with ABC for airing a sexually suggestive opening to its &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; telecast this week.
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The network didn&#39;t mean to offend you. (...Sunday nights on ABC, 9 pm Eastern, 8 o&#39;clock Central.). It understands that what it did was unsuitable for many viewers (This week on a sizzling new Housewives, Edie
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By Rick Bird  It's believed a dozen or so CBS affiliates will not air the remarkable documentary "9/11" at 8 p.m. Sunday, worried about the expletives uttered in some of the footage.
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ABC suits scrambled Wednesday to try to contain the mutiny among stations that refuse to air Thursday nightâs broadcast of the unedited âSaving Private Ryan,â citing indecency concerns.
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Television network ABC and its sister  cable network ESPN have rejected three Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.  commercials that spoof two advertising campaigns of rival  Miller Brewing, a source familiar with the situation said on  Wednesday.
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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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ABC television, backed by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and others, spent much of yesterday trying to keep nervous affiliate stations from deserting a Veterans Day broadcast of the
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The ABC television network is rightly being pilloried from all concerned - including FCC Chairman Michael Powell â-or its tawdry &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; opening this week.