"yep, it's sad Frank is pumping his own stock. You should not have your stock symbol on the bottom of a television network AD. Do you see anyone else doing this?"
CNN used to say "sunbsidary ot owned by our parent company AOL Time Warner" and show the stock symbol everytime they did an story related to AOL specifically or one of their higher profile properties such as Moviefone or WB.
I dont watch CNN anymore but I do know for sure it used to be done regularly to point of nauseum for me.