> On Oct 15, 2016, at 6:37 AM, Melissa P <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think I was in graduate school just about the time advertising barriers > were coming down. A lot a people don't remember, but years ago, advertising > goods and services such as eyeglasses, lawyers, prescription drugs, and even > funerals wasn't permitted.
One thing I've been thinking about while watching the baseball playoffs is the fact that there used to be no TV advertising for hard liquor -- not due to FTC or other national government regulations, but because the manufacturers/distributors had agreed to it through their industry association. That voluntary ban ended 20 years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/08/business/liquor-industry-ends-its-ad-ban-in-broadcasting.html (The broadcast networks still don't accept hard liquor ads -- although some of their affiliates do -- but the baseball playoffs, being on cable up until the World Series, are rife with liquor commercials, mostly bourbon.) -- Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
