GM withdraws CBS' 'Survivor' sponsorship
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General Motors Corp. has decided to end its sponsorship of CBS' hit series "Survivor," but the world's largest automaker said Wednesday that the decision had nothing to do with the reality show's controversial decision to divide its contestants in the upcoming season by race and ethnicity.
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Next year's series of Celebrity Big Brother is being scrapped in the wake of the show's race controversy.
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Protests from seven safety groups  prompted General Motors Corp. to pull a television ad that  shows a young boy driving a Corvette sports car so recklessly  that it goes airborne, officials of the automaker said on  Wednesday.
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For the second time in a week, an automaker has agreed to stop running a television commercial that activists complained made light of suicide.
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DaimlerChrysler AG says it has dropped its title sponsorship of Donald Trump's TV show "The Apprentice" because of a price increase from NBC. The second season starts Sept. 9.
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Chuck Guite says the normal contract process was never used to award contracts to agencies in the sponsorship program. The former manager of the federal sponsorship program says agencies were &quot;prequalified
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The final four "Survivor: China" contestants kept their alliance intact all season long, but only self-proclaimed schemer Todd Herzog was able to win the CBS reality show's $1 million prize Sunday.
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General Motors Corp. has decided to end its sponsorship of CBS' hit series "Survivor," but the world's largest automaker said Wednesday that the decision had nothing to do with the reality show's controversial decision to divide its contestants by race and ethnicity.
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Auto racing Anheuser-Busch will end its title sponsorship of NASCAR's No. 2 series after the 2007 season. The parent company for Busch beer cited the desire to reassess all of its NASCAR marketing as its reason for pulling out of the Busch Series. The company just celebrated its 25th season as title sponsor. The decision, confirmed by series officials yesterday, ...
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NEW YORK, September 23  - Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO.NYS) has reached an agreement with Mark Burnett, the producer of the popular reality TV shows &quot;Survivor&quot; and &quot;The Apprentice,&quot; to develop a new prime-time TV series featuring
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"A social experiment like never before," host Jeff Probst declared. Three weeks after unveiling a new "Survivor" gimmick &#151; its rival tribes would be split along racial lines &#151; the CBS adventure-game show returned Thursday to let viewers see if this was a crass ploy for ratings or a welcome new twist after a dozen previous editions.
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Mounting backlash  against an upcoming BET series accused of trafficking in racial  stereotypes has prompted at least two advertisers to pull out  of the premiere episode on the Viacom Inc.-owned channel.
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DAVID STERN LIKENS an NBA season to &quot;1,200 episodes of reality programming.&quot; In tomorrow&#39;s presentations of &quot;Survivor, NBA Arena,&quot; Shaq promises to be a brick wall when Kobe the Corvette drives the lane, after the Pistons drop in on an Indianapolis crowd
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The major car manufacturer backs out of a controversial CBS show.
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General Motors Corp  on Friday  said it had terminated a $4.1 billion standby credit agreement  with a syndicate of banks, saying it had sufficient liquidity  without the borrowing arrangement.
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Some prominent advertisers have pulled their sponsorships for NBCâs strike-subdued Golden Globes coverage, media buyers said.
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ABC has dropped Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a TV outlet for the first time in 50 years.