ABC radio orders its affiliates to blacklist some ads from Air America.

[splat@14]

Can't believe some of the spoansors aprticipating in this. Wal mart is no surprise, but the US Postal Services and the Navy? I Thought they worked for all of us?
Splat



An internal memo from ABC Radio Networks to its affiliates reveals scores of powerful sponsors have a standing order that their commercials never be placed on syndicated Air America programming that airs on ABC affiliates.

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Headlined "Air America Blackout" and addressed "Dear Traffic Director"—referring to the radio station staffer who coordinates programming and advertising—the memo gives the following order to affiliates:


Please be advised that Hewlett Packard has purchased schedules with ABC Radio Networks between October 30th and December 24th, 2006. Please make sure you blackout this advertiser on your station, as they do not wish it to air on any Air America affiliate.

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The list(http://www.fair.org/images/ABCmemo.pdf), totaling 90 advertisers, includes some of largest and most well-known corporations advertising in the U.S.: Wal-Mart, GE, Exxon Mobil, Microsoft, Bank of America, Fed-Ex, Visa, Allstate, McDonald's, Sony and Johnson & Johnson. The U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Navy are also listed as advertisers who don't want their commercials to air on Air America.


http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2983

[FormerDittoHead]

1. But they all will sponsor Rush Limbaugh. So much for the "free market" deciding.. n/t