Re: Commercial facility names on non-commercial stations

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

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From: "Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@suscom.net>
To: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>;
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Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: Commercial facility names on non-commercial stations


>> Yes, the Denver Post refused to mention the Broncos' new stadium by its
> sponsored name, "Invesco Field at Mile High." Instead, they call it The
> Stadium at Mile High, or something like that.

When I produced the morning show on WGAN, the Portland Press Herald would
occasionally mention how a local issue was a big topic on the local morning
talk show, but they almost never mentioned the station's call letters or the
name of the show.  As a result, Jim Crocker would not allow any mention of
the Press Herald on the air.  He would refer to "the local daily newspaper"
or the ldn for short.  I think he still does it, more than a decade later.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine