4 November 2006

Coup for local ABC TV employee

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An employee at ABC Television has managed to get five minutes of straight advertising for a commercial venture onto ABC television, where the major multinationals have failed all these years.

She’s having a commercial sale of vintage clothing this weekend (with an entry fee) all of which was shamelessly spruiked by the program Stateline on Friday evening, including the date and venue.

The item had no content or comment other than a parade of the clothes on sale, and a thin “interview” about how she acquired the stock.

Is she going to be asked to pay for the unique advertising opportunity, or will the producer of the show be disciplined?

Doesn’t this contravene the ABC’s code of practice?

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ABC advertising? An employee at ABC Television has managed to get five minutes of straight advertising for a commercial venture onto ABC television, Canberra news site The RiotACT reports. They held a commercial sale of vintage clothing over the weekend (with an entry fee) that was promoted on Friday’s Stateline. — Christian Kerr

“ABC advertising? An employee at ABC Television has managed to get five minutes of straight advertising for a commercial venture onto ABC television, Canberra news site The RiotACT reports. They held a commercial sale of vintage clothing over the weekend (with an entry fee) that was promoted on Friday’s Stateline. — Christian Kerr”

Unfortunately not Kerces – I’m one of these tidy types whose deleted emails vanish when logging off. Must be another RA/Crikey subscriber who can oblige?? Hang on, maybe I can do it from their website…

and you can’t go through your email’s garbage bin to dredge up a copy and paste of those two lines for us?

*sigh*
to link:
[a href=”http://URLHERE.com”] linky linky[/a]

but use SHIFT+, and SHIFT+. (angle brackets) instead of the square brackets

BTW, it was authored by one C. Kerr.

Just a 2-liner headlined something like “Advertising on ABC?” or similar. They then drew attention to the RA post. Unfortunately I’ve already deleted it; and still don’t know how to do the link thing – despite trying to follow the Maelinar/Kerces corresp over the weekend…

What did crikey say Terubo?

They churlishly have ceased our freebie despite the masses of content they lift from us between their ravings about the end of the world.

Uh-oh. Expect more flagellation for Auntie now that Crikey! has linked to this story…

was she at any stage identified as an abc employee ?

She was also on 666 this morning.

Whatever – it worked. There’s a queue halfway around the building.

They have to cover something – every time they show a new exhibition at the NAtional Gallery or smaller local galleries etc that is a form of unpaid advertising. It would also fit under their ‘grassroots local community’ push.

I have to say that the ABC’s given me some scope to plug my own enterprises so I personally have no objection.

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