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- Apr. 12, 1993: What's Up, Doc?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- BUSINESS
- What's Up, Doc?
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- <body>
- <p>It's Bugs Bunny vs. Mickey Mouse in a tiff about theme-park
- ads
- </p>
- <p> Ever since Six Flags began running TV commercials last year
- touting its theme parks over Disney land, Disney chairman
- Michael Eisner has been steaming. He complained to Gerald Levin,
- chairman of Time Warner, which owns 50% of Six Flags. When the
- commercials kept running, Eisner pulled Disney's planned
- advertising (worth about $6 million) out of Time Inc. magazines.
- Six Flags refused to back down. A subsequent ad portrayed two
- dogs: a happy pup whose family had gone off for the day to visit
- Bugs Bunny at the local Six Flags park, and a lonely pooch whose
- owners had left town for Mickey Mouse's place in California. The
- message: "Get home in time to feed your dog." Last week a
- seething Eisner threatened to review deals under which Time
- Warner distributes Disney records, books and magazines. In
- response Time Inc. canceled a marketing conference at the Disney
- Yacht Club near Orlando. Wall Street was wondering when the
- companies would make up and say, "That's all, folks."
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- </body>
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