Arthur J. Delaney has been appointed Chapter Coordinator of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. In this role, Delaney will supervise all chapter presidents across the nation and will oversee the development of new chapters; he will report to the league's vice president, Bernadette Brady. Delaney will work from his home office in Philadelphia [...]
Montgomery Ward has become the twentieth company to withdraw its sponsorship of "Nothing Sacred." In doing so it joins Isuzu, Weight Watchers, K-Mart, Benckiser, DuPont, Red Lobster, Ocean Spray, Sears, AT&T, Glaxo Wellcome, Ponderosa, Dunkin' Donuts, Scott's Liquid Gold, Chrysler-Plymouth, Honda, Arm & Hammer, Home Depot, Borden and Alberto Culver. The official statement from the department [...]
Alberto Culver has said that it will no longer sponsor the ABC show, "Nothing Sacred ." The company had sponsored FDS on the September 18 episode and Cortexx Hair Conditioner on the September 25 edition. There are now 19 companies that have withdrawn sponsorship of "Nothing Sacred." The others are Isuzu, Weight Watchers, K-Mart, Benckiser, DuPont, [...]
Borden, Inc. has officially notified the Catholic League that it is discontinuing its ads on the ABC show, "Nothing Sacred." On the October 2 episode, Borden advertised Classico pasta sauces. Today, it apologized for sponsoring "Nothing Sacred" and explained that it has an advertising policy that should have allowed its new advertising agency to say "no" [...]
Home Depot has become the 17th company to stop advertising on the ABC show, "Nothing Sacred." A spokesman for the home improvement center said that representatives of the advertising department previously previewed only part of the pilot program and were not sufficiently aware of the show's content. He said that the ad that was placed on [...]
Two ABC affiliates, WABC in New York and WCVB in Boston, have admitted that they ran unauthorized ads for the ABC show, "Nothing Sacred." On September 25, WABC-TV ran an ad for Chrysler-Plymouth that was never ordered by the auto manufacturer's ad agency, Bozell. On September 18, WCVB-TV ran an ad for Star Market that was [...]
Arm & Hammer has just announced that it will no longer advertise on the ABC show, "Nothing Sacred." The baking soda company advertised four times on the September 25 show but clearly will not be airing any more ads. Arm & Hammer is the sixteenth sponsor to pull advertising from "Nothing Sacred." The others are as [...]
Three recent incidents of Satanism have occurred and none of them has been given much attention by the media. The gruesome murder of eleven-year old Edward Werner of New Jersey got the coverage it deserved, but what was clearly underreported was the status of his accused killer. It was widely reported that the accused attended a [...]
American Honda Motor Co., Inc. has notified ABC that it will never again advertise on "Nothing Sacred." In a letter addressed to Catholic League president William Donohue, an official of the car company said that "it was our intention not to sponsor or run any commercials during the program." He explained that "Unfortunately, several local affiliates [...]
A spokesman for Chrysler-Plymouth said today that he was shocked that an ad for his company appeared in the New York market on the September 25 episode of the ABC show, "Nothing Sacred." He told Catholic League president William Donohue that the show was previewed by officials from his company this past summer and that a [...]
