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I think this has more to do with inherent superiority of the consumer defence laws. BTW ads are an almost unmitigated nuisance: when France banned ads after 8P
by wazoox 7y ago
I think this has more to do with inherent superiority of the consumer defence laws.
BTW ads are an almost unmitigated nuisance: when France banned ads after 8PM on its public channels, their audience numbers soared (so the project which was an obvious gift from Sarkozy to his media mogul friends, badly backfired).
- perl4ever 7y agoBanning ads was a failure, because it harmed the media? I thought the media was who sold ads. Also, public television in the US doesn't have the same level of ads as other channels.
- wazoox 7y agoThe idea was to ban ads on public TV to augment the price of ads for the private channels by reducing the market size. But instead people watched the no-ads channels more, so the price of ads on the private channels didn't soar but fell instead.