FirstCuts: 30 Rock Reminds Us About Olympics

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NBC is ... what’s the word? Completely and totally shameless in its cross promotion of products and events in shows. So although 30 Rock was wildly hilarious in its season finale this past Thursday, they did manage to slip in an entire storyline based around the upcoming Olympics in Beijing. This isn’t the first time NBC has used 30 Rock to promote something ... [link]

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NBC Ruins Perfectly Good 30 Rock With Beijing Olympics Promotion
Published 5/14/2008 by Eamonn Brennan at FanHouse
... Gone are the 1970's, when people had few entertainment choices other than the big three (four) networks, and pretty much any product that wanted to reach a TV audience had to do so by paying a king's ransom to NBC, CBS, and the like. Now I have 800 gazillion channels and Tivo, so I don't need to watch a single TV the rest of my life. It's awesome. So I know NBC has to square its own network promotion in its own shows. I get it. But that doesn't make it any less lame (via TSB): Seriously, NBC, just tell us you're ...

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