Comments on: New ABC mobile service to include advertising http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/new-abc-mobile-service-to-include-advertising/ now with extra source Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:37:24 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ozato http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/new-abc-mobile-service-to-include-advertising/#comment-22758 ozato Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-22758 "undermine the ABC’s reputation as a broadcaster untainted by commercial interests. " what a wank, the ABC, both radio and TV has been full of ads for years. The only difference between the ABC and the commercial channels is where the ads are placed. Why do you think the ABC is unable to run its TV channels to program times, because their timing is always skewed by the ads a la the commercial networks. SBS is even worse, given up watching that taxpayer funded commercial.<br /> “undermine the ABC’s reputation as a broadcaster untainted by commercial interests. ” what a wank, the ABC, both radio and TV has been full of ads for years. The only difference between the ABC and the commercial channels is where the ads are placed. Why do you think the ABC is unable to run its TV channels to program times, because their timing is always skewed by the ads a la the commercial networks. SBS is even worse, given up watching that taxpayer funded commercial.

]]> By: simon http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/new-abc-mobile-service-to-include-advertising/#comment-22759 simon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-22759 i wouldn't be surprised if they started slapping the commercial worm on any abc online content they deem as beeing "GOOD ADVERTISING" real-estate. the abc isn't concerned with content integrity anymore. i wouldn’t be surprised if they started slapping the commercial worm on any abc online content they deem as beeing “GOOD ADVERTISING” real-estate. the abc isn’t concerned with content integrity anymore.

]]> By: John Russell http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/new-abc-mobile-service-to-include-advertising/#comment-22760 John Russell Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-22760 After having lived in the German part of Switzerland for 31 years before retiring to Queensland... I never watch any channel 7,9 or 10 because of the infantile advertising, a good funny advert is always worth seeing but the standard here is like the USA in the 1970s. In Europe even the state owned channels have advertising varying from discreet " The Weather forecast is brought to you by Union Bank of Switzerland" or in Germany and Austria with a maximum 3 to 4 minutes at the END of a programme allowing a toilet break and certainly no in your face junk food. The Tyranny of Distance still applies so much to the Australian way of life. All the Motor car manufacture in Australia would not pass EC emission laws. All European countries have strict rules on advertising for alcohol, cigarettes and junk food is only consumed in the UK and advertising is banned until late evening. Why oh why doesn't the Rudd government send out a few embassy staff to see what happens in other countries.... plastic bags... gone years ago... except in the UK you have to bring your own bags to the shop or buy brown paper carriers at $1.50. After having lived in the German part of Switzerland for 31 years before retiring to Queensland… I never watch any channel 7,9 or 10 because of the infantile advertising, a good funny advert is always worth seeing but the standard here is like the USA in the 1970s. In Europe even the state owned channels have advertising varying from discreet ” The Weather forecast is brought to you by Union Bank of Switzerland” or in Germany and Austria with a maximum 3 to 4 minutes at the END of a programme allowing a toilet break and certainly no in your face junk food. The Tyranny of Distance still applies so much to the Australian way of life. All the Motor car manufacture in Australia would not pass EC emission laws. All European countries have strict rules on advertising for alcohol, cigarettes and junk food is only consumed in the UK and advertising is banned until late evening. Why oh why doesn’t the Rudd government send out a few embassy staff to see what happens in other countries…. plastic bags… gone years ago… except in the UK you have to bring your own bags to the shop or buy brown paper carriers at $1.50.

]]> By: Lisa http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/new-abc-mobile-service-to-include-advertising/#comment-22761 Lisa Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-22761 I thought that the ABC had to opperate under a charter as a public broadcaster that prevents commercial adverts, what happened to this??<br />Over the past two years ABC shop adverts have, combined with show trailers, taken up to 10 minutes in prime time, and they annoy the hell out of me. I have a tv guide and know where the ABC shop is I do not need daily reminders.<br /> I thought that the ABC had to opperate under a charter as a public broadcaster that prevents commercial adverts, what happened to this??
Over the past two years ABC shop adverts have, combined with show trailers, taken up to 10 minutes in prime time, and they annoy the hell out of me. I have a tv guide and know where the ABC shop is I do not need daily reminders.

]]> By: Gail http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/new-abc-mobile-service-to-include-advertising/#comment-22762 Gail Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-22762 Advertising somehow corrupts everything that is touched by it. From children's sport to the grown up sport industry. I don't want the ABC ever to be beholden to the creeps in the advertising industry and their clients who consistently fail to recognise that the consumer at the retail end is actually everybody's customer. If a kid writes a tag on a wall it's vandalism. When a large advertising budget writes their tags all over walls, fences and buildings, why aren't they considered vandals?<br /><br />Their entire industry is based on making hapless customers want something they don't need. Parasites. Please don't let them get their grubby little fingers all over the ABC. Advertising somehow corrupts everything that is touched by it. From children’s sport to the grown up sport industry. I don’t want the ABC ever to be beholden to the creeps in the advertising industry and their clients who consistently fail to recognise that the consumer at the retail end is actually everybody’s customer. If a kid writes a tag on a wall it’s vandalism. When a large advertising budget writes their tags all over walls, fences and buildings, why aren’t they considered vandals?

Their entire industry is based on making hapless customers want something they don’t need. Parasites. Please don’t let them get their grubby little fingers all over the ABC.

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