Miss Universe Gaffe Shows Peril Of Live TV
IMG and The Miss Universe Organization announced today that Fox in December will broadcast the Miss Universe pageant, an event that had aired the previous dozen years on NBC.
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama is joining several other Latin American nations in dropping out of the Miss Universe pageant in protest over Donald Trump’s comments about immigrants. The Miss Panama Organization and the Telemetro television channel say that this year they won’t participate in or broadcast the Miss Universe contest partly owned by Trump. […]
The media giant says its decision comes in the wake of “disrespectful” remarks by Donald Trump that the company says offended the entire Mexican population.
The network issued a new statement late Thursday distancing itself from the TV personality and presidential hopeful.