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BBC & Advertising

peteweaver

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Right, the BBC is banned from advertising commercial products, for instance coca cola, because it gets its revenue from the British Television Licence scheme.

Yet, commercial music (a market worth billions of pounds), which is for sale in record shops up and down the country, gets advertised frequently...

Is this a conspiracy to slip in advertising through the back door ? :)
 
Its not that it is banned from advertising commercial products since as you say it is not funded that way. (That is for UK purposes - it does carry commercial advertising on its websites that are accessible to Johny-foreigner and channels it is associated with abroad). What it is no meant to do is endorse any specific product over an other - so they can say "use tomato ketchup" in a cookery programme but will tape out the Heinz label on the bottle.

This has always meant that there is a double standard since they do review and even recommend some specific products - such as the latest film, book and so on.

Not so much a conspiracy just how the organization has evolved over the years.
 
Ok, in 1977 God save the Queen by the Sex Pistols was not referred to in the top of the pops top ten. Despite having the most record sales that week. Because of that the highest song listed in their chart was the number 2 place.

In 1996 Radio 1, ceased to be a "chart" radio show so that they could avoid playing Status Quo's single. Which a Radio 1 Dj remarked "was a rubbish song anyway"...

So yes there's a double standard.

I'm sure 'truthers' don't care about that, and are more angry that their idol (Avery) looked stupid on their programme "the conspiracy files" (which it could be argued, plugged Popular Mechanics rather excellent book debunking 911 myths).
 
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Its not that it is banned from advertising commercial products since as you say it is not funded that way. (That is for UK purposes - it does carry commercial advertising on its websites that are accessible to Johny-foreigner and channels it is associated with abroad). What it is no meant to do is endorse any specific product over an other - so they can say "use tomato ketchup" in a cookery programme but will tape out the Heinz label on the bottle.

This has always meant that there is a double standard since they do review and even recommend some specific products - such as the latest film, book and so on.

Not so much a conspiracy just how the organization has evolved over the years.
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We have the same thing in Aus with the ABC. The radio presenters go ape, for example, if someone mentions a name brand, but they frequently have authors/musicians on to spruik their product.
 
Yeah, the first series of 'Kath and Kim' was on the ABC and I think they used some pretty funny jokes on the labels of the products they used. I seem to remember the latter episodes just used normal products.
 
"We are living in a commericial world but I am NOT a commercial girl. They just make really spiffy frocks and I happen to like wearing them."

-- Auntie
 
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