Posted by Derek on July 07, 1997 at 11:57:20:
In Reply to: Authorities crack down on TV puppet posted by Clive on July 06, 1997 at 19:06:51:
And there's more. This segment was grabbed from the web page
listed at the bottom of this posting, regarding a study on
adverts:
> Australia had an average of thirteen minutes of commercials
> an hour. The U.S. had eleven, the United Kingdom had nine.
> Everybody else, like France, had less than six minutes.
> Norway had none.
>
> Even more interesting was the fact that in Australia food
> ads, especially junk food ads, were by far the most common.
>
> Soft drinks and cordials, lollies and chocolates, breakfast
> cereals, snacks, and of course fast food restaurants.
And here's that group Young
Media Australia, mentioned in one
of Clive's previous postings as having complained to the ABA:
> Young Media Australia study this sort of thing and they're
> concerned. They're also worried that in some shows the host
> helps promote even more products.
>
> Agro's Cartoon Connection
> "In what size pack of Thins will you find Space Jam Movie
> Motion Tazo's?"
>
> Obviously nobody's looking, looking, at twenty hour slabs
> of commercial tv and nothing else. Even so, many think
> it's time something was done.