On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 01:56, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 23:18, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:So, the few times I did manage to catch Wimbledon, the three dark green letters plastered over the light green wall of the court just happened to be the same 3 letters used in the logo of the main sponsor? Oh wait, it looks like it might just be a non-blue version of their logo ... well what do you know, isn't that a coincidence?
Adam Williamson wrote:Sponsors are not adverts. Sponsors get to say they are the "official
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 16:36, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:Someone should tell their sponsors then.
Do you ever watch sports? Take the US Open that just wrapped up last weekend.Yeah. But for the tennis, I far prefer watching Wimbledon. They don't
take adverts.
http://championships.wimbledon.org/en_GB/about/sponsors.html
supplier of X to The Championships Wimbledon" on the packaging of their
products, and in some cases their actual *products* appear at the
championships. There are, though, no advertisements there.
Huh? I really don't remember seeing that. Maybe I just didn't
notice...don't suppose you could find a picture anywhere?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/wimbledon_2003/photo_galleries/3038554.stm
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