Friday, February 09, 2007

Cartoon Network Chief Resigns

Candace Lombardi writes on the C|Net Media Blog:

Turner Broadcasting has confirmed that Cartoon Network head Jim Samples resigned on Friday.

The general manager of the Cartoon Network said in a statement to colleagues that he was resigning in light of the Boston controversy over a marketing campaign gone awry.

The Cartoon Network is the television network owned by Turner Broadcasting responsible for the blunder in which devices for a guerilla marketing campaign for the Adult Swim cartoon show Aqua Teen Hunger Force were mistaken by Boston authorities for bombs.

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