Fox Rejects Miller Beer Ads for Super Bowl
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A dispute between the country's two biggest beer brewers has a brand-new battlefield - the Super Bowl. Late last week, with football fans by the millions gearing up for the big game, Fox Broadcasting decided not to put on the air a Miller Brewing Company ad that poked fun at Anheuser-Busch's plans for a new light beer.
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The Hollywood writers strike, declining television ratings and the budgetary pressures that accompany an economic slowdown have conspired to make it a tough stretch for U.S. advertisers this year -- so the Super Bowl couldn't come at a better time.
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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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ST. LOUIS, Dec. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Coors (Nachrichten) Brewing Co. has pulled off of CBS television ads for its Aspen Edge brand that compared it to Anheuser-Busch&#39;s Michelob ULTRA, Anheuser-Busch has learned.
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A record number of Americans watched Sunday's Super Bowl on Fox between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, helping justify the millions of dollars advertisers spent on commercials during the game.
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No network can get a multihour pregame show right, and Fox didnât, thanks to turning it into an âAmerican Idolâ promotion. But Fox did the football game very well.
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Broadcast television network CBS on Friday said it will pull three Miller Lite commercials from its airwaves, saying the spots were too disparaging of rival Bud Light, beer companies Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. and Miller Brewing Co. said on Friday.
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Hamburger chain Burger King said on Wednesday that it would not run its commercials during a controversial program about U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry to be aired by Sinclair Broadcast Group .
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After a blog post last week in which celebrated former local TV news director Terry Heaton cited industry insiders as revealing Fox Interactive Media's intention to preparing to launch a MySpace news portal around Newroo technology in the second quarter, FIM officials this morning -- very clearly and ostentatiously -- declined comment.
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Damian Miller&#39;s first chance to don a Brewers cap was put indefinitely on hold late Wednesday, when the team announced it could not complete the 35-year-old&#39;s physical before the Thanksgiving holiday.
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The CBS and NBC television networks have rejected an advertisement for the United Church of Christ that shows two beefy bouncers turning away a gay couple, a Latino woman and a disabled man outside a church.
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Perennial Super Bowl advertiser Anheuser-Busch Cos. is leaning heavily on humor in a raft of ads slotted for this year's game, which airs Feb. 3.
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Masterfoods USA has announced that it's pulling the Super Bowl candybar ad, in which two men accidentally touch lips &#8212; to their horror, after gay groups called it homophobic
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October 12, 2004 -- THE asking price of a TV commercial on next year&#39;s Super Bowl is going up again. Fox, which has the rights to football&#39;s ratings-busting showcase, is seeking a record $2.
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New England Patriots kicker Stephen  Gostkowski refuses to live in the shadow of Super Bowl hero  Adam Vinatieri.
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Fox will be the new television home of the Bowl Championship Series. The network and the BCS announced a four-year, &#36;80 million deal Monday that gives Fox the broadcast rights to the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowls from 2007-10 and the national title game from 2007-09.
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Fox Broadcasting "has sold all but one of the 63 30-second commercials that it plans to run" during the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, Stuart Elliott reports in Friday's New York Times. "The average cost of each 30 seconds of commercial time is estimated at $2.7 million, compared with $2.6 million for spots in Super [...].