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</head><body><p>Smooth Scotland, and presumably other Global stations use a sequence that has always struck me as sailing pretty close to appearing to have a commercial in the news in the form of the weather sponsor's message:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">Opening ident (<em>"From Global's newsroom..."</em>)<br><em>   News</em> (with no closing announcement/ident after final story, just straight into weather ident)<br>   Weather ident and sponsor's commercial message<br><em>   Weather bulletin</em><br>News reader namecheck and close (<em>"From Global's newsroom, I'm xxxx."</em>)<br></p><p style="">It's always seemed to me that the final tag makes it appear that the commercial message is within the news bulletin, but I guess they must have got it cleared.<br></p><p>Alex<br></p><blockquote type="cite">On 20 March 2017 at 16:13 Martin Steers <martin@martinsteers.co.uk> wrote:<br><br><div dir="ltr">Hiya,<div><br></div><div>I appreciate there is a big difference between sponsors and spot adverts, I was just raising caution. I have personally never heard a commercial station (or any station) run A news bulletin and described by yourself. But it could be a practice thats employed by other stations.</div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>