From Deseret News archives:
Utah college chiefs want liquor-free sports TV
The group includes the presidents and athletic directors at Brigham Young University, Utah State University and Southern Utah University, as well as the president and football coach at the University of Utah.
So far, 60 Division I college presidents, 240 athletic directors and 101 football and basketball coaches have signed letters calling for the NCAA to add beer to a list of products that cannot be advertised during college games. That list includes cigarettes, guns, nightclubs and gambling.
The petition is sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which sent the letters to NCAA president Myles Brand Monday in anticipation of Thursday's annual meeting of the NCAA executive committee and Division I board of directors in Indianapolis.
The effort is dubbed the Campaign for Alcohol-Free Sports TV.
U. President Michael Young and football coach Kyle Whittingham signed the letters, which call for a review of the NCAA alcohol advertising policy and suggest that phasing out beer commercials over three years would be relatively painless.
Now 81 percent of college presidents ban alcohol from some portion of college dorms. They are motivated by tens of thousands of alcohol-related injuries and sexual assaults in which alcohol is a factor. A 2005 Boston University study found that 1,700 college students die each year of alcohol-related causes.
Beer companies are major players in the television sports advertising game. Anheuser-Busch and Coors spent nearly $400 million on TV sports ads in 2007. Anheuser-Busch and Miller Brewing spent nearly $30 million to advertise during the 2007 NCAA basketball tournament, according to TNS Marketing Intelligence, and beer was the second-largest advertiser behind automobiles. Still, beer-commercial revenue accounted for only a fraction of NCAA tournament broadcast revenues about 5 percent.
Young doesn't anticipate that banning those commercials would make a major dent in TV revenue for networks, the NCAA or college athletic programs.
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