The upcoming TV show Playboy Club that frankly should have probably found a better home on HBO or Showtime due to the potential for inappropriate content ended up with NBC. Traditionally, most affiliates take on these national shows because they get much more advertising attention and because the mothership tends to all but force each local affiliate to do so. Not so in the case of the Salt Lake City NBC affiliate KSL.

KSL has deceided that they have the right and the ability to pass on the Playboy Club show on the grounds the show, "Promotes a brand that we just cannot support," said Mark Willes, president and chief executive officer of Deseret Media Companies (DMC)." Funny, later in the article Mark states, "I'm fairly liberal and I believe the marketplace decides, most of the time, but this is a no-brainer for me. We cannot in good conscience air a brand we don't believe in. There's a lot of creative, clever, fun entertainment out there. Let's look for that," I didn't think liberals let the market place decide anything. In any case, kudos to KSL for making a bold and appropriate decision.

In other related playboy news, Hefner is buying out the rest of the public shares of Playboy stock and taking the company private. Why is this significant? It isn't really. I just found it interesting that the Deseret News, also a part of DMC is running both stories while not claiming to promote the playboy brand. Why not, not talk about Playboy if you don't want to promote them? Just a thought guys.
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