Word: halpin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into third gear"--an implied threat to launch a boycott. That got CompUSA's attention. The company complained to the ABC Radio Network, which syndicates Joyner's show, about the false letter Joyner had read. It's not clear what happened next. Though CompUSA's president and CEO, James Halpin, says he never told ABC he was planning legal action against Joyner, ABC got weak in the knees. According to Joyner and Smiley, the network's president, Lyn Andrews, warned them that if they did not stop talking about CompUSA, then ABC might "pull the plug on the show...
...word would be out that if you call ABC, [it] will make us shut up." The next day, with Joyner's blessing, Smiley blasted ABC for threatening to cancel the show. ABC's and CompUSA's switchboards were overwhelmed with angry phone calls from Joyner's fans. Last week Halpin appeared on Joyner's show and promised to hire a black-owned ad agency and to give a 10% discount to those who had sent in CompUSA receipts. Everyone's happy now. But why do black consumers have to go to such extreme lengths to get companies to take them...
...agency The Geppetto Group and CARU Business Advisory Committee member Julie Halpin says she believes that the program is effective in regulating advertising...
...People want to do what's right, and they're happy to follow the [CARU] rules," Halpin says...
...reason we use psychologists is to be responsible in creating advertising to children," Halpin says...