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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>That is perfectly legal, although I personally
don't like the way they wrap it.<BR><BR>The important part, is that the news
itself cannot be sponsored ("News brougt to you by XYZ Co"). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>An RSL was held in breach this week for doing just
that.<BR><BR>Sponsored weather, sport, showbiz etc is fine, as it is not news in
its pure sense.<BR><BR>-Nigel-</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=martin@martinsteers.co.uk
href="mailto:martin@martinsteers.co.uk">martin@martinsteers.co.uk</A> ; <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 20, 2017 7:53
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [cma-l] Sky/Fox Radio
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<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>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,
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<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>
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