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What do you do when your adult website gets turned down from advertising on national television – the Super Bowl to be exact? Send out a press release.
Booble.com (we will refrain from linking to the site for obvious reasons), an adult search engine had offered CBS $50 million at one point to advertise during the Super Bowl, one of the most sought-after programs on TV. CBS didn’t even call the company back after the ridiculous offer.
Interest in Carbs, Cookies, Crockpots and Cocktails Soared in 2004
Which people, moments, news and trends captivated Americans in 2004? AOL(R) Search, America Online’s popular search destination, announced the year’s top searches based on what people and topics received the highest volume of online queries on the AOL service and AOL.com.
The new rules would be used to aid investigations of indecency complaints, as they would require broadcasters to keep recordings of their content from 6 A.M. to 10 P.M. All this is occurring at the same time that federal law states that radio stations and television stations cannot make references to sexual and excretory functions.
The FCC has stepped up enforcement of indecency standards after this year’s controversial Super Bowl halftime show, with the “accidental” breast-baring of Janet Jackson during her performance with Justin Timberlake. Recently, the popular radio personality Howard Stern came under attack by the FCC for alleged indecency violations.
The new DVD player, manufactured under the RCA brand by Thomson Inc., comes as public debate is heating up over whether the media have pushed the limits of decency, especially after too much of singer Janet Jackson was bared during this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. The DVD player includes a technology that has riled Hollywood — a controversial program that can automatically skip sexual content, graphically violent scenes and language deemed offensive.
CNET is reporting that users of the TIVo service have been expressing concerns over privacy issues after TiVo announced that the Janet Jackson moment was the most “TiVoed” moment to date on its service.
TiVo said users had watched the skin-baring incident nearly three times more than any other moment during the Super Bowl broadcast, sparking headlines that dramatically publicized the power of the company’s longstanding data-gathering practices.
“It’s just sort of creepy,” longtime TiVo subscriber Sandra Munozshe wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com.
Read the whole story at ZDNET.
On Monday, Janet Jackson and the halftime show received 60 times as many searches as the Paris Hilton sex tape and 80 times as many searches as Britney Spears.
Lycos says that prior to this week, the most-searched event in the history of the Lycos 50 over a one-day period was the September 11 attack on America. Although it is very difficult to compare searches for the two events, it looks like the Super Bowl halftime show was the equal of September 11 when it comes to Internet attention.
Read the whole article at Lycos.com.
Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson stole the show during Sunday’s Super Bowl, attracting almost twice as many viewers as the most thrilling moments on the field, according to an annual measurementof second-by-second viewership in TiVo households.
The Jackson-Timberlake moment drew the biggest spike in audience reaction TiVo has ever measured. TiVo said viewership spiked up to 180 percent as hundreds of thousands of households used TiVo’s unique capabilities to pause and replay live television to view the incident again and again. Overall, the halftime extravaganza had a powerful grip on viewers. According to TiVo’s analysis of aggregated data from an anonymous sample of 20,000 households, viewership of the game’s intermission increased by 12 percent compared to last year’s halftime show.
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