{"id":16752,"date":"2011-11-30T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=16752"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T16:00:26","slug":"can-this-be-true-i-love-it-no-more-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/can-this-be-true-i-love-it-no-more-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"Can This Be True? I Love It&#8230;No More Commercials&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline: China Will Ban Commercials During TV Dramas as Control of Media Tightened.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I am not in favor of censorship either&#8230; But the commercials these days are making watching television close to impossible. My family tried to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade, but we <!--more-->gave up as the constant interruption of \u00a0 ads became so annoying and so intrusive that no one could stand it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Bloomberg News<br \/>\nNov. 29 (Bloomberg) &#8212; China will ban television stations from airing commercials during broadcasts of TV dramas starting Jan. 1, as the government tightens control over media and the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Television stations may face reprimands or the loss of commercial broadcast rights if they air any advertising during the 45-minute episodes, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said in a statement on its website yesterday. The rule is meant to \u201clift the standards of public cultural services\u201d\u009d and \u201cprotect the people\u2018s basic cultural rights,\u201d\u009d the regulator said. It also designated January as a \u201cspecial month\u201d\u009d for enforcing the ban throughout the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline: China Will Ban Commercials During TV Dramas as Control of Media Tightened. Okay, I am not in favor of censorship either&#8230; But the commercials these days are making watching television close to impossible. My family tried to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade, but we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[483],"class_list":["post-16752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}