Archive for 'On TV & Radio'

How U2 Got Involved with ESPN Again

Bono didn’t write the words he says during that ESPN/FIFA World Cup TV commercial that features his voice. That’s one of the interesting bits of information in an interview on Examiner.com with ESPN’s Seth Ader. Ader explains that ESPN approached U2 last fall: We just believe in their message, not only their music, but their [...]

Bono Voices an ESPN/FIFA World Cup Commercial

Following up on our home page news bit from last week about U2 being included in several ESPN/FIFA World Cup TV commercials, the ESPN YouTube channel has just added another one of those spots. This one is called “United,” and I’d say yer man has a bright career ahead of him in TV voiceover work [...]

U2 & NASCAR: What’s up with that?

U2 on a NASCAR TV commercial? That’s the question on a lot of people’s minds these days. Our Marylinn Maione wondered about it in her OTR column last night. Fans in our forum are asking WTF? Heck, even the LA Times is blogging about it: Pop & Hiss has reached out to the U2 camp [...]

Who Needs A Playlist?

While traveling to Durham for the U2 Conference yesterday, Jet Blue had a wonderful selection of satellite music for me to take advantage of. For a U2 fan who didn’t feel like hitting “random” on her personal music device, the airline’s XM Radio did a great job in finding obvious and obscure tunes by U2 [...]

U2 @ 30 - RTE Retrospective-30 years of U2 clips 1978 to 2009

RTE has put together 30 moments of U2 in an extensive range of video and audio clips. These are taken from appearances on Irish television and radio. 1978 to 1986 1986 to 1993 1994 to 2009

Like comparing Apples to…Blackberries?

Sean Fallon over at the Gizmodo blog makes a strong case about how the new Blackberry U2 ad, currently appearing in movie theaters and on network television, strongly resembles a certain Coldplay Apple ad. View the two videos (click the link above) and weigh in on the similarities in our comments field.

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