MCC sues TV station for refusing ad.WGN-TV has deflected de·flect intr. & tr.v. de·flect·ed, de·flect·ing, de·flects To turn aside or cause to turn aside; bend or deviate. [Latin d questions about its ethics after a Metropolitan Community Church parish slapped the Chicago-based station with a lawsuit on October 27 for refusing to run a pro-gay infomercial in·fo·mer·cial also in·for·mer·cial n. A relatively long commercial in the format of a television program. [info(rmation) + (com)mercial.] Noun 1. . The 30-minute paid program, produced by the Cathedral of Hope Cathedral of Hope may refer to:
WGN White Gaussian Noise WGN World's Greatest Newspaper (Chicago, IL, USA) WGN World Gastroenterology News WGN We Got Nomar WGN World's Greatest Network WGN Wireless Network Gateway WGN Wagon , which is carried on cable systems nationally, scheduled five showings of the infomercial and accepted a check for the first payment in July. A week later the check was returned. "We just wanted to make our voice heard against the overwhelming onslaught of people using the media to say how bad gay people are," the Cathedral of Hope's reverend Michael Piazza told The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. "We wanted mostly to reach out to lesbian and gay teenagers but also people living in rural areas." Phil Rozansky, who brokered the deal between WGN and the church, told the Times that TV stations often reject infomercials with sensitive themes and that WGN has turned down paid programming that had gay-bashing themes. |
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