Advertising Age:
NBC Universal is expanding a ban on ads promoting unhealthy food from its Qubo block of original children's programming to similar shows on the local stations it owns, putting more pressure on other networks to follow.
The network announced today that 26 owned-and-operated stations of NBC and Telemundo Networks would stop taking the ads effective June 1, 2008.
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Well, it's about time they stopped making their
kid shows feed troughs for Madison Avenue oinkers...
This is a terrible infringement on corporate rights to use targeted advertising to sell children food that is manifestly harmful to them. Of course, it's another corporation doing that.
Just how will this story be used to attack liberals? I can't wait to find out.
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First Posted: 09-27-07 10:22 AM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:45 AM