{"id":7883,"date":"2003-06-04T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T17:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/06\/04\/spike-wants-to-spike-spike-tv\/"},"modified":"2003-06-04T12:53:40","modified_gmt":"2003-06-04T17:53:40","slug":"spike-wants-to-spike-spike-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/06\/spike-wants-to-spike-spike-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike wants to spike Spike TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Filmmaker Spike Lee has sued Viacom Inc. over plans to rename its TNN cable channel Spike TV as part of its campaign to attract male viewers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8230;Viacom bought TNN in 2000, and said in April that it would change the channel&#8217;s name to Spike TV on June 16 in an attempt to increase the number of men in an audience that is already about two-thirds male. It said on Tuesday that it was confident the court would reject Lee&#8217;s claims to the name Spike.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/06\/04\/spikelee.spiketv.ap\/index.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Filmmaker Spike Lee has sued Viacom Inc. over plans to rename its TNN cable channel Spike TV as part of its campaign to attract male viewers.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}