sparky wrote:A couple of weks ago CTV was covering some skiing event at Whistler. Anytime Perry did a report from Whistler, an ad for GM Pontiac popped up on the screen. Were these reports paid for by GM and were they in reality commercials for Pontiac that were being passed off as news stories?
Marke Driesschen wrote: Sparky..
The event was the Pontiac GMC Canadian Championships featuring the Canadian Alpine Ski Team. The "ad' you saw was not an ad but the event logo, which GM paid lots of money to sponsor and has the right to put their corporate logo on it. Just like the Telus Ski and Snowboard Festival, The Scott Tournament of Hearts, the ScotiaBank CFL Championships and so on. That includes using their name on signs, printed material, merchandise, etc.
But that's where it ends.
Top Dog wrote:Did someone not say WX had about 50 people in the newsroom. Could not one of those positions be full time digging - each reporter given two months to work on projects before switching to another. Be good for george gordon to prove he is in news and not advertising.
Top Dog wrote: Shilling for lawyers on TV - it is difficult for me to take him too seriously. And Yes I noticed that once Garrett
was no longer on the beat he was shilling for the truck association or something.
Stn Brk wrote:
Somehow I suspect I'm not the only one bitching about the Canucklehead marathon on CTV-9 last week and there were more than a few calls of complaint to the station. I notice CTV has NOT led with the Canucks the past few nights. If the games are so important, why aren't they still 'top of the cast'??
Stn Brk wrote:I have it on good authority that Global led with a health care story Wednesday night. No idea what the lead was on Thursday. Perhaps someone at Global can fill us in.
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