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Article: MTV's Carson Daly Sues Motorola
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- September 1, 2001
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09-01-2001
MTV's Carson Daly Sues Motorola
NEW YORK (AP) -- MTV personality Carson Daly has sued Motorola, claiming the company backed out of $1 million deal to promote cell phones, pagers and other products.
The breach-of-contract lawsuit, filed Thursday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, accuses Motorola of breaking a promise to renew a contract with the host of ``Total Request Live'' because of economic woes.
The company, ``motivated by declining earnings and the effect of the same on its advertising budget, reneged on its agreement,'' the suit says.
Daly claims that as part of a tentative agreement reached in January, he agreed to not make commercials for any of Motorola's ...