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Ian David

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2. Late into the Stop "Doctor Laura" campaign, we started pressuring the public service advertisers...

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Thu Mar 8, 2012, 11:47 AM

Mar 2012

... to stop running their free ads during her TV show.

This is the first I've heard of them dropping a PSA without prompting.

Eventually, the local station had to resort to running tests of the Emergency Broadcast System three times each episode, in place of commercials.

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Late into the Stop "Doctor Laura" campaign, we started pressuring the public service advertisers... Ian David Mar 2012 #2