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Re: commercialism (was REVIEW...)

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From: Joel A. Caughran
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 00:00
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960808141327.23670E-100000@panther.Gsu.EDU>, Sam
Callan <gs02sdc@panther.Gsu.EDU> wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Stephen Curry wrote:
> 
> > Kudos to ACOG for eliminating all advertising and sponsor logos from the
> > venues themselves. It was a refreshing sight.
> > 
> > -- 
> > sacurry@mindspring.com     http://www.mindspring.com/~sacurry
> > 
> > 
> IT has been the IOC's policy to have "clean" venues, not ACOG's policy.
> 
> In the past the venues for the Olympics have been clean.  The World 
> Championships and the US Trials are a different story and are run by 
> different groups.

The actual venues may have been clean, but I saw on CNN before the games
that they had developed technology to insert ads over green boards in real
time.

Joel

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From: caughran@sunchem.chem.uga.edu (Joel A. Caughran)
Subject: Re: commercialism (was REVIEW...)
Date: 1996/08/09
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