Posted
6:21 PM
by Gene
It's not just the Oscars'® ratings that got clobbered.
The NPCAA Ad Festival (also known as
College Basketball for Dummies) is taking a licking too. You can blame that on the war, but I still say every institution that's hitched its wagon to the TV star, from Miss America to the World Series, has seen the star work loose from the reins and fall away, the wagon following -- because so many people can't stand the TV biz, and because so many people can't stand the advertisers.