Dropped Sponsors

http://stopbeck.com/dropped-sponsors/

Aegon (added 9/14/09)
Airmiles.co.uk (added 10/20/09)
Allergan (added 8/17/09)
Ally Bank/GMAC Financial Services (added 8/17/09)
Alpro Soya (added 01/11/10) (statement)
AmMed Direct (added 10/6/09)
Ancestry.com (added 8/24/09)
Applebee’s (added 8/27/09)
Ashley Furniture (added 8/28/09)
AT&T (added 8/24/09)
Bank of America (added 8/25/09)
Bell & Howell (added 8/27/09)
Best Buy (added 8/17/09)
Binder & Binder (added 9/2/09)
Blaine Labs (anti-fungal & scar treatments) (added 8/24/09)
Brez (anti-snoring strips) by Airware Inc. (added 8/21/09)
British Airways (added 12/14/09)
Broadview Security (added 8/17/09)
Campbell’s Soup Co. (added 8/24/09)
Capital One (added 9/2/09)
Citrix Online (added 10/6/09)
Clorox (added 8/23/09)
Closing.com (Closing Corp.) (added 8/28/09) (read statement here)
Concord Music Group (added 10/6/09)
CVS (added 8/17/09)
Dannon Co. (added 9/2/09)
Diageo (Guinness, Cuervo, Baileys’, etc) (added 10/5/09)
DirecTV (added 8/27/09)
Discover (added 9/2/09)
DITECH (added 8/24/09)
EggLands Best (added 9/21/09)
Elations Co. (added 8/24/09)
Equifax (added 10/6/09)
Eulactol USA (maker of Flexitol) (added 10/6/09)
Farmers Insurance Group
FreeCreditReport.com/Experian (added 8/24/09)
GEICO
General Mills (added 8/27/09)
GetARoom.com (added 10/6/09)
Healthy Choice (owned by CongAgra)
History Channel (added 11/11/09)
Hoffman La Roche (maker of Boniva) (added 10/6/09)
HSBC (added 9/2/09)
Humana (added 9/14/09)
ICAN Benefit Group Insurance (added 9/2/09)
Infiniti (added 9/2/09)
ING DIRECT (added 01/07/09) (statement)
Jack Daniels (added 12/28/09)
Jelmar (CLR cleaner manufacturer) (added 9/2/09)
Johnson & Johnson (added 8/24/09)
Jordan McKenna Debt Counseling Network (added 9/2/09)
KRAFT Foods (added 8/20/09) (read statement here)
KRAFT Foods (UK) (added 11/13/09)
Lawyers.com (owned by LexisNexis)
Lowe’s (added 8/24/09)
Luxottica Retail (parent company of Pearle & LensCrafters) (added 9/14/09)
Mars (maker of Snickers, M&Ms, Pedigree, etc..) (added 10/20/09) (read statement here)
Men’s Wearhouse
Mercedes-Benz (added 9/2/09)
Metropolitan Talent Management (added 10/6/09)***
Natwest (UK) (added 12/11/09)
Nestle (added 11/23/09)
NutriSystem (added 8/24/09)
ooVoo (added 10/6/09)
Overture Films (added 10/6/09)
Premier Foods (UK) (added 11/18/09)
Premier Inn (UK) (added 12/20/09)
Procter & Gamble
Progressive Insurance
PUIG Beauty (added 12/14/09)
Radio Shack
Re-Bath (added 8/17/09)
Reckitt Benckiser (UK) (added 12/04/09)
Regions Financial Corporation (added 8/27/09)
Roche *
S.C. Johnson
SAM (Store and Move) (added 8/27/09)
Sanofi-Aventis
Sargento Cheese
Scarguard (added 10/6/09)
Schiff Nutrition (maker of Tiger’s Milk & Fi-Bar) (added 10/6/09)
Seoul Metropolitan Government (added 10/6/09)
Simplex Healthcare (Diabetes Care Club) (added 9/2/09)
Sprint (added 8/23/09)
State Farm Insurance
Subaru (added 10/6/09)
Tesco (added 12/19/09)
Toyota-Lexus (added 10/6/09)
Travelers Insurance (added 8/27/09)
Travelocity
UPS (added 8/23/09)
United States Postal Service (added 9/14/09)
Verizon Wireless (added 8/21/09)
Virgin Atlantic (added 01/08/10)
Vonage (added 8/24/09)
Waitrose (added 10/4/09) **
Walmart (added 8/17/09)
Woodland Power Products (added 10/6/09)
Woodman’s (added 11/20/09)****
Wyeth Consumer Healthcare (added 9/14/09)

....wait... is this the Weekly Caption Contest......??

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NO body is forcing anyone to watch or spend their money with adds

the hottest adds in the country are the ones slinging gold ( and his spot is jammed with them ) its all about the money and he if bagging it on pallets

The truth is not a hard SELL and he is doing a bang up job BTW -- jz

Again, it's just TV entertainment for the masses; who cares?

I thought this was a thread about Tiger Woods.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

I doubt this guy is doing as well with the ladies... Unless he spends lots of time in trailer parks with his target audience.

Most trailer park dwellers are of the waiting for a handout democrat persuasion, so I doubt they are his target audience.

I don't know who that leaves for him, maybe some institutions with TVs in the day room?

Well, whoever it leaves there are certainly plenty of them as indicated by the ratings. I'm sure that peeves you but you can't deny the reality.

If network and cable television programming were foodstuffs, they'd have to come with warning labels about brain damage.

I give them 5-10 years to be gone. I don't know anyone under 30 who really watches TV or listens to terrestrial radio, especially news shows. My kids only use the TV to stream online media and watch movies from a hard drive or a DVD. They probably spend twice as much time chatting and gaming online as watching the "idiot box" (that may not be a "good" thing).

Actually, quite a few folks still watch or listen to news, but even FNC adamantly states that "The Factor" is not news, neither is Sean, Glen, or Greta, as they occupy the "infotainment" side of the network.

That would be an interesting social change, where programming becomes so fine tuned and personalized that there will be a diminishing population of people with a "shared experience." For instance, more people knew about the "Yada-Yada" episode of "Seinfeld" than the episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with Stephen Colbert. Broadcast versus cable. As content gets more pinpointed, there may be less of that common experience to discuss.

I think we are already there. I'm 51 and I watch more video podcasts than TV shows by a wide margin. I don't even listen to NPR anymore, I just collect the episodes of the shows I like on podcasts and listen to an ipod while driving. I haven't used my car radio (as a radio) for a couple of years. I get 90% of my news from news websites (I can scam a dozen websites in a few minutes). If I want to watch a current TV series, I just buy the entire season on itunes (without commercials), or watch it on hulu when I have time. I've never watched an entire episode of Seinfeld, but I have all 7 seasons of the Sopranos sitting on a hard drive.

My kids watch/listen to completely separate media from me. I think my daughter watches more video on here phone than on her TV. Most of their "shared experience" comes from various chat rooms. They almost never talk on their phones, in favor of texting and e-mailing. I don't think my kids have any idea who Jay Leno is. They spend a lot more time playing online games and chatting with the other players than watching TV.

The point is that media has already become very focused, the days of everyone watch Ed Sullivan on Sunday nights are long gone.