From <http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2029058,00.html>:
"Carphone Warehouse has ended its deal with Channel 4 to sponsor Big
Brother, two months after the Shilpa Shetty racism row engulfed the
celebrity version of the reality show.
The company has held the £3m a year sponsorship contract for the hit
show for the past three years.
In January it pulled all of its sponsorship idents from around Celebrity
Big Brother in reaction to the negative media coverage of alleged racist
bullying in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
Carphone Warehouse was still contracted to sponsor this summer's Big
Brother series but, following further talks with Channel 4, the phone
retailer and broadband provider has decided to pull out of sponsoring
the show altogether."
--
Martin Jay
Phone/SMS: +44 7740 191877
Re: Carphone Warehouse ends Big Brother sponsorship
"Stephen (Sausagefans.com)" <usenet@sausagefans.com> wrote
in message news:MPG.205a97ac1dcd2318989bbd@news.zen.co.uk
> In article <BIT3YYFrQI8FFwOc@spam-free.org.uk>,
> martin@spam-free.org.uk says...
> > From
> > <http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2029058,00.html>:
> >
> > "Carphone Warehouse has ended its deal with Channel 4
> > to sponsor Big Brother, two months after the Shilpa
> > Shetty racism row engulfed the celebrity version of the
> > reality show.
>
> Clever!
>
> I, for one, didn't even know they were the sponsor and
> now they get some exposure for no cost!
They can expose themselves all they like, I for one will never buy
anything from them..!
Re: Carphone Warehouse ends Big Brother sponsorship
On 8 Mar, 21:46, Martin Jay <mar...@spam-free.org.uk> wrote:
> From <http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2029058,00.html>:
>
> "Carphone Warehouse has ended its deal with Channel 4 to sponsor Big
> Brother, two months after the Shilpa Shetty racism row engulfed the
> celebrity version of the reality show.
>
> The company has held the £3m a year sponsorship contract for the hit
> show for the past three years.
>
> In January it pulled all of its sponsorship idents from around Celebrity
> Big Brother in reaction to the negative media coverage of alleged racist
> bullying in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
>
> Carphone Warehouse was still contracted to sponsor this summer's Big
> Brother series but, following further talks with Channel 4, the phone
> retailer and broadband provider has decided to pull out of sponsoring
> the show altogether."
> --
In the last week of CBB it was a relief not to see those poxy mowbli
ads
Re: Carphone Warehouse ends Big Brother sponsorship
Martin Jay wrote:
> From <http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2029058,00.html>:
>
> "Carphone Warehouse has ended its deal with Channel 4 to sponsor Big
> Brother, two months after the Shilpa Shetty racism row engulfed the
> celebrity version of the reality show.
>
I think their piece of shit fucking awful broadband service does more harm
to their brand reputation then anything to do with BB.
Re: Carphone Warehouse ends Big Brother sponsorship
"Stephen (Sausagefans.com)" <usenet@sausagefans.com> wrote
in message news:MPG.205c6cc3fae43fe4989bc7@news.zen.co.uk
> In article <55d3s5F24fhrtU1@mid.individual.net>,
> ivor@despammed.invalid says...
> > They can expose themselves all they like, I for one
> > will never buy anything from them..!
>
> Previous bad experience?
That, and the overwhelming nmber of posts in this group over the last
couple of years or so agreeing with me..!
Re: Carphone Warehouse ends Big Brother sponsorship
Martin Jay <martin@spam-free.org.uk> writes:
> Carphone Warehouse was still contracted to sponsor this summer's Big
> Brother series but, following further talks with Channel 4, the phone
> retailer and broadband provider has decided to pull out of sponsoring
> the show altogether."
Why does Big Brother need any sponsorship? Surely the massive profits
from the premium rate phone and text voting lines should be more than
sufficient to make the programme more than pay for itself without
needing (financial) input from a sponsor.
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:24:24 +0000, Graham Murray
> <newspost@gmurray.org.uk> wrote:
>
> >Martin Jay <martin@spam-free.org.uk> writes:
> >
> >> Carphone Warehouse was still contracted to sponsor this summer's Big
> >> Brother series but, following further talks with Channel 4, the phone
> >> retailer and broadband provider has decided to pull out of sponsoring
> >> the show altogether."
> >
> >Why does Big Brother need any sponsorship? Surely the massive profits
> >from the premium rate phone and text voting lines should be more than
> >sufficient to make the programme more than pay for itself without
> >needing (financial) input from a sponsor.
> Why does Big Brother need to be transmitted at all it is yet another
> load of crap that the independent programmers decided to foist upon
> us .I have decided when my present licence is at an end no more will
> be bought stuff TV it is nothing but sport and rubbish programs like
> the one mentioned these days licenses are not worth paying 100 pence
> for never mind over a hundred quid .
Exactly. You have a choice. So stop whinging.
--
Bob Eager
begin 123 a new life...take up Extreme Ironing!
Re: Carphone Warehouse ends Big Brother sponsorship
"Graham Murray" <newspost@gmurray.org.uk> wrote in message
news:87ejnv247r.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk...
> Martin Jay <martin@spam-free.org.uk> writes:
>
>> Carphone Warehouse was still contracted to sponsor this summer's
>> Big
>> Brother series but, following further talks with Channel 4, the
>> phone
>> retailer and broadband provider has decided to pull out of
>> sponsoring
>> the show altogether."
>
> Why does Big Brother need any sponsorship? Surely the massive
> profits
> from the premium rate phone and text voting lines should be more
> than
> sufficient to make the programme more than pay for itself without
> needing (financial) input from a sponsor.
>
You are probably right there. However, as a broadcaster, if someone
came to you and offered large stacks of money to sponsor your show,
would you refuse them even if you didn't need it ?
Re: Carphone Warehouse ends Big Brother sponsorship
In article <ud98v2leb56beiab1kj5qkcrv0eg1vo8lu@4ax.com>, clavox@btinternet.com
says...
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:24:24 +0000, Graham Murray
> <newspost@gmurray.org.uk> wrote:
>
> >Martin Jay <martin@spam-free.org.uk> writes:
> >
> >> Carphone Warehouse was still contracted to sponsor this summer's Big
> >> Brother series but, following further talks with Channel 4, the phone
> >> retailer and broadband provider has decided to pull out of sponsoring
> >> the show altogether."
> >
> >Why does Big Brother need any sponsorship? Surely the massive profits
> >from the premium rate phone and text voting lines should be more than
> >sufficient to make the programme more than pay for itself without
> >needing (financial) input from a sponsor.
> Why does Big Brother need to be transmitted at all it is yet another
> load of crap that the independent programmers decided to foist upon
> us .
>
Because the revenue from the show accounts for 20% of C4's annual budget.
--
Re: Carphone Warehouse ends Big Brother sponsorship
In uk.media.tv.misc Dom Robinson <Usetheaddress@inthesig.com> wrote:
> Because the revenue from the show accounts for 20% of C4's annual budget.
But in the time BBB (before big brother) Ch4 did exist and so must somehow
have survived without the income from BB. Perhaps if they hadn't paid 4
trillion pounds an episode for some as yet unbroadcast episodes of The
Simpsons we could return to the point where actual TV programs could be
broadcast rather than the BB crap.
Re: Carphone Warehouse ends Big Brother sponsorship
On 12 Mar, 22:09, <n...@buffy.sighup.org.uk> wrote:
> In uk.media.tv.misc Dom Robinson <Usetheaddr...@inthesig.com> wrote:
>
> > Because the revenue from the show accounts for 20% of C4's annual budget.
>
> But in the time BBB (before big brother) Ch4 did exist and so must somehow
> have survived without the income from BB.
In the time before Big Brother (even if it was only six or so years
ago) there were a lot less channels and a lot less competition for
advertising revenue.
> Perhaps if they hadn't paid 4
> trillion pounds an episode for some as yet unbroadcast episodes of The
> Simpsons we could return to the point where actual TV programs could be
> broadcast rather than the BB crap.
I may think BB is crap, you may think BB is crap, but more people
watch it than anything else on C4 and for them to drop it would
decimate funding for all the worthwhile programing it produces.
Re: Carphone Warehouse ends Big Brother sponsorship
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:56:14 UTC, "Peter King" <peter.a.king@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 12 Mar, 22:09, <n...@buffy.sighup.org.uk> wrote:
> > In uk.media.tv.misc Dom Robinson <Usetheaddr...@inthesig.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Because the revenue from the show accounts for 20% of C4's annual budget.
> >
> > But in the time BBB (before big brother) Ch4 did exist and so must somehow
> > have survived without the income from BB.
>
> In the time before Big Brother (even if it was only six or so years
> ago) there were a lot less channels and a lot less competition for
> advertising revenue.
>
> > Perhaps if they hadn't paid 4
> > trillion pounds an episode for some as yet unbroadcast episodes of The
> > Simpsons we could return to the point where actual TV programs could be
> > broadcast rather than the BB crap.
>
> I may think BB is crap, you may think BB is crap, but more people
> watch it than anything else on C4 and for them to drop it would
> decimate funding for all the worthwhile programing it produces.
I think they'd probably lose more than 10% of their revenue.
--
Bob Eager
begin 123 a new life...take up Extreme Ironing!
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