Idle hands are the devil's playground, but really busy hands.....
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Idle hands are the devil's playground, but really busy hands.....
That escort service spot would certainly be considered illegal and a violation of the station license rules if found to be connected with prostitution. That said; just because one might get away with it, doesn't mean it isn't against the rules, or put the station license in jeopardy.
Maybe your scuzball GM got away with it back in 1973, as Michael points out the year range, but it doesn't mean something like that would fly in a modern age of 'Me too'.
Legal or not, is there a big hurry for marijuana ads on radio/TV? (Tobacco cigarette ads have been banned since the early 70s, and I haven't seen any cigar or smokeless tobacco ads in years...)
Are you asking a question, or making a statement?
Question. Even if MJ becomes legal at the federal level, will there be an effort to ban advertising for it on broadcast radio/TV?
Various public groups of the day managed to eventually get tobacco products banned from radio and TV. Whether that happens assuming someday pot is no longer a federally controlled substance that's sold like tobacco products, remains to be seen. One could argue that pot and pot products would be similar to alcoholic beverages, which so far haven't been banned from radio or TV.
The tobacco ban was related to the surgeon general's announcement that smoking causes cancer. So far, no such dire warnings for CBD.
I live in a city where the top sports talker has a sponsored "Sexy Traffic" bit where the anchor does an innuendo-laden traffic report brought to you by a strip club with a 70s era porn music bed undeneath. It's kinda terrible, and they've been doing it for 15-20 years now.
Somehow, I don't think Bonneville is going to steal that bit for Seattle.
I've heard radio ads for smoke shops. They don't specifically mention any tobacco products, but from the name it's obvious what they sell.
Others will provide a "PSA" style ad regarding some social cause and then tag "This reminder brought to you by...." (fill in weed shop)
Wasn't TV advertising of alcoholic beverages once limited to beer or beer and wine? Ads for bourbon and such are now commonplace on TV, but IIRC, that wasn't the case a couple of decades ago, I think the same thing went for radio.
7th Heaven had an extensive record department and sold concert tickets. The head shop part of it wasn't even half the store.
Thanks for the info, I‘ve never been there. Usually I went to The Music Exchange or Wherehouse Music (RIP to both) and sometimes the Love Garden in Lawrence (which despite the name is a music store).
Yep, remember that one, plus Kief's.
To make up for the dismal state of music on Kansas City radio in the early 90s (except for the short lived Planet Q on KBEQ), I bought so many CDs at Kief's and at 7th Heaven that they would save hard to get British indie pop and dance for me.
If anyone ever wants to do a shoegaze format, I'm your guy!
It did.
I remember, when moving to Reno, having to deal with some interesting lines. We could do spots for casinos, but couldn't reference gambling. We could advertise their in-house bars and mention beer and wine, but not hard liquor.
That was mostly a network standards thing; there was no FCC (or other) prohibition against it.
Also, the liquor companies themselves decided not to advertise over the air back then, it seems: Why You Couldn't See a Liquor Ad on TV For Half of the 20th Century
Same thing with (prescription) medicine ads, lawyer ads, etc.-- at first, TV stations and networks would stay away from them, but loosened up as time went on.
The first ban, effective Jan 1, 1971, only applied to cigarettes. Other tobacco products like cigars, cigarillos ("little cigars") and smokeless tobacco ("snuff") weren't banned from the air until the mid-80s.
What do tobacco advertising restrictions look like today?
While tobacco TV ads and physician-recommended cigarettes are a thing of the past, marketing restrictions may not be as far-reaching as you think.
This is an aggressively stupid thread, and it makes me think less of so much about this site. I say this as someone who has quietly been here since the radio-info and kokomo days. Good. Lord.
And yet here you are. Good lord. 🤪
That was in the NAB Code which was determined to be a form of collusion and dropped.
I ran hard liquor ads in Puerto Rico going back to 1970: Rum, of course and some of about everything else.
Again, it was code. Broadcasters feared that running hard liquor would make the FCC or other entities ban all liquor ads, cutting off beer.
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