Does CNN _have_ to run Cialis ads while all these people are dying?

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Too much...

It's been how many days? how many THOUSANDS dead already?

Can't they put their ad time to some better use? Give some other, more disaster-oriented businesses or organizations some ad time?


Are you from NO with ED? Now you've got help ... from Cialis

They're making me vomit in my own mouth!

[Blue_In_AK]

1. The one I saw last night that blew my mind...

Was for some little SUV and how everybody needed to go buy one to "make your escape," or something like that. Ordinarily it might not be such a bad commercial, but in the middle of the news about people being trapped in NO it seemed insensitive in the extreme.

[stillcool]

2. News=Commercials......

they really are morphing into each other, and neither makes much sense.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. you just said what I have been screaming at my TV

they have even less of a clue than the president

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[whistle]

5. Cialis works even after the user has died.....

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20. So does FEMA Brown...

[AlCzervik]

6. CNN has to put food on their family.

[Horse with no Name]

7. Problem is

These are agency buys...they are contracted.
There isn't anything you can do--they were contracted to run way before Hurricane Katrina.:shrug:

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14. Are there some FEMA forms they can fill out? ;)

I know but I do think there is some leeway when there is the biggest disaster in the entire 229 years of American history... :)

[BringEmOn]

8. They're playing to a lot of flaccid little freeper weenies.

All this death and suffering makes them horny

[pretzel4gore]

9. CNN now known as CNNT

that cable news network traitors...
cnnt was leading the charge in the oj simpson case (which justified a racial ie black or white 'identity') then the clinton case, whitewater and so on....yet too many respect cnn as a news org...it isn't: cnnt hates the american people, the proof is? well there's lotsa proof imo...

[KT2000]

10. Horrendous Enzyte

commercials on msnbc.They look even more idiotic, if that is possible, while being run with coverage of such gravity.

[elare]

11. CNN isn't a not-for-profit organization.

And they've gotta pay the bills.

[mongo]

12. Thank you!

and I might add that if a Cialis commercial makes you vomit you have more problems than the policies of CNN...

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13. It is true ... but there are times they go without any advertising, so

it would seem to be that they have some control over the commercial messages.

It turns out this is actually an interesting thing to look at ...
this page has cost and revenue info for CNN for 2002 http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/chartland.asp?id=369&ct=col&dir=&sort=&col1_box=1&col2_box=1&col3_box=1

CNN (millions / year)
Programming Costs $221
Subscriber Revenue $385.7
Net Ad Revenue $411

which is a little more manageable by the minute (524160 minutes / year):

$421.63 / minute Total costs
$735.84 / minute "subscriber revenues"
$784.11 / minute "net ad revenues"

The subscriber revenue comes directly from cable operators (about 37 cents / subscriber / month) at $735.84 per minute more than covers the total costs of $421.63 per minute leaves an actual profit of $314.21 per minute without a single commercial advertisement. That's almost $165 million a year in profit. Add the advertising revenue of $411 million per year on top of base profit, brings up their fully advertised profit at $576 million profit

That's 2002, so its safe to say costs haven't changed much, nor subscriber revenue.

So maybe CNN has a little wiggle room it would seem.


Interesting too is in comparison, Halliburton had last quarter profits of $392 million derived from a gross revenue of $5,163 million subtracting total costs of $4,556 million. In other words their profit was just about 8% of revenue, while CNN'S profit is actually 72% .. that's pretty rich with CNN's annual profit at $575 million (in 2002) and Halliburton's at only about 3 times that.

I'm glad you brought it up! :)

on edit here's the Halliburton financial info: http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/fetchFilingFrameset.aspx?FilingID=3819519&Type=HTML

[Cleita]

18. That's true. They didn't do advertising for days after 911.

But I guess that's because 911 made * look good. (It was lost on me, but most of the country bought it._

[bluedawg12]

15. Floods cause ED. n/t

[jim3775]

16. Nobody on DU complains about KY jelly and summer's eve douche ads.

I'm sick of people complaining about ED pill ads.

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19. I know I know ... I'm just saying while there are still people being saved

Some extra numbers to look at things:

Number of minutes since Katrina struck:

HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF

Landfall 29 Aug, 2005 7:10 am

10 Days
16 Hours
9 Minutes
42 Seconds

or about 15,000 minutes ... Baton Rouge got 25,000 body bags ... if that's the case, that more than one death / minute

At that rate I'd simply wish to believe that CNN would consider that the gravity of the topic they are covering 24/7 and step up to the plate with a little more creativity in their revenue/advertising balance and content.

There is serious talk of capping oil/gas profits, what's wrong with CNN choosing to moderate their message during this exceptional time?

And hey I'm not asking for feminine hygiene products either ... do something innovative instead of being, um, RIGID! ;)

[Cleita]

17. It's business.

:sarcasm: Nothing trumps business, not your grandma, not your children. It's only the money that counts. :sarcasm:

[bamacrat]

21. Not only are the hoping to keep peoples spirits up but..........

not funny i know but...........