p2pnet - rss feed: Non-stop ads on European TV
p2pnet.net news:- One of these days, someone with good taste and a lot of spare cash will set up an internationally available and completely commercial free alternative television network, and when he or she does that, he or she will make a fortune.
Until then, however, it looks as though we’ll be increasingly bombarded with unwanted outpourings from companies desperately trying to flog their equally unwanted product.
Canada has just announced it plans to completely do away with any kind of restrictions on TV advertising, starting in the year 2009, and now it seems Europe and is going in the same deplorable direction.
The European Union’s national governments has approved sweeping changes to the bloc’s television-broadcasting rules, extending the amount of advertising allowed and allowing product placement in TV shows, says The Wall Street Journal in a couple of teaser paragraphs which are completely obscured by a pop-up advertisement you have to click to do away with.
“Until now,” it says, “such product placement has been illegal in many EU countries, and that angered producers who saw their U.S. counterparts cash in on the practice. The new regulations also help broadcasters by allowing them to show advertisements more frequently.”
Also See:
completely do away - More ads for Canadian TV, May 19, 2007
The Wall Street Journal - EU Backs Rise In Advertising On Broadcast TV, May 24, 2007
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May 26th, 2007 at 9:22 am
“Until then, however, it looks as though we’ll be increasingly bombarded with unwanted outpourings from companies desperately trying to flog their equally unwanted product.”
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May 29th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
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October 29th, 2007 at 9:26 am
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