Football manager adverts on BBC

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

I hate TV adverts and so I rarely watch any of the commercial
channels. That means I tend to watch BBC channels all the time. Every
time a football manager or player is interviewed the wall behind them
is covered in product logos that have nothing to do with football. I
give up!

Steve

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Neural Network Software for Windows http://www.npsnn.com

[Max Demian]

On Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:44:59 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme
<st...@easynn.com> wrote:

> I hate TV adverts and so I rarely watch any of the commercial
> channels. That means I tend to watch BBC channels all the time.
Every
> time a football manager or player is interviewed the wall behind
them
> is covered in product logos that have nothing to do with football. I
> give up!

I'm surprised they don't blur or pixelate them like they do
(annoyingly) for car number plates, faces and TV programmes in the
background.

--
Max Demian

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

That is annoying. I don't know why they do that.

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:55:12 -0000 (UTC), "MC" <a...@any.any> wrote:

>Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
>
>> I hate TV adverts and so I rarely watch any of the commercial
>> channels. That means I tend to watch BBC channels all the time. Every
>> time a football manager or player is interviewed the wall behind them
>> is covered in product logos that have nothing to do with football. I
>> give up!
>>
>> Steve
>

>Like the McDonalds, Mars, various motor vehicle manufacturers etc... on
>the hoardings surrounding the pitch. Hoardings which have been the
>mainstay of football pitches for eons.
>
>MC

The pitch usually belongs to the team. Where are the interviews held?

[br...@somewhere.ac.uk]

Stephen Wolstenholme <st...@easynn.com> wrote:
>
> The pitch usually belongs to the team. Where are the interviews held?

In an interview area belonging to the team! As ALL teams have these - and they
are the same size and format - it must be allowed (or required?)
by the various leagues.

[michael adams]

"Stephen Wolstenholme" <st...@easynn.com> wrote in message
news:mlq24cd7i75e6bu5e...@4ax.com...

>I hate TV adverts and so I rarely watch any of the commercial
> channels. That means I tend to watch BBC channels all the time. Every
> time a football manager or player is interviewed the wall behind them
> is covered in product logos that have nothing to do with football. I
> give up!

They're the people who sponsor the Premier League
and so without showing the logos in the background
the Beeb would presumably need to agree pay even
more for the rights to just show just the highlights.

Basicaly if the Beeb don't want to play ball then there
are plenty who will.


For many people who don't watch football they're
already paying too much for those rights. Which would
be even worse if they had to pay even more for logo free
backgrounds. Which presumably they think are acceptable
for people who already want to watch MOTD on the Beeb.


michael adams

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[Max Demian]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:55:12 -0000 (UTC), "MC" <a...@any.any> wrote:
> Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

> > I hate TV adverts and so I rarely watch any of the commercial
> > channels. That means I tend to watch BBC channels all the time.
Every
> > time a football manager or player is interviewed the wall behind
them
> > is covered in product logos that have nothing to do with
football. I
> > give up!

> Like the McDonalds, Mars, various motor vehicle manufacturers
etc... on
> the hoardings surrounding the pitch. Hoardings which have been the
> mainstay of football pitches for eons.

I thought those were all done electronically these days. So they
could be suppressed.

--
Max Demian

[Max Demian]

It was better when the Beeb weren't even allowed to say 'Cornflakes'.

--
Max Demian

[jbm]

It was even better when the Beeb didn't say "Strictly" or "Bake Off"

[Jim S]

Then there was the time when BBC prenters were not allowed to appear in
adverts.
--
Jim S

[damdu...@yahoo.co.uk]

On Fri, 02 Dec 2016 23:25:03 +0000, Max Demian
<max_d...@bigfoot.com> wrote:


>> Like the McDonalds, Mars, various motor vehicle manufacturers
>etc... on
>> the hoardings surrounding the pitch. Hoardings which have been the
>> mainstay of football pitches for eons.
>
>I thought those were all done electronically these days. So they
>could be suppressed.

I expect they are to stop interference.

G.Harman

[damdu...@yahoo.co.uk]

On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 00:31:05 +0000, Jim S <j...@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:


>> It was better when the Beeb weren't even allowed to say 'Cornflakes'.
>
>Then there was the time when BBC prenters were not allowed to appear in
>adverts.

Or with a BBC dog,
Hence John Noakes appearing in a commercial with a Dog called Skip
instead of Shep thereby confusing children and annoying the BBC
which showed what a dog's breakfast the rules were.

G.Harman

[michael adams]

"Max Demian" <max_d...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:almarsoft.5236...@news.plus.net...

>
> It was better when the Beeb weren't even allowed to say 'Cornflakes'.

ITV were equally strict as they didn't want competing
brands shown on screen as against brands which were
being adverised on their channel. So cereal packets etc.
would be shown with coloured cellotape - or rather "sticky
backed plastic" covering up the names on the packets.


michael adams

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[JNugent]

On 03/12/2016 15:43, michael adams wrote:

> "Max Demian" <max_d...@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>> It was better when the Beeb weren't even allowed to say 'Cornflakes'.

> ITV were equally strict as they didn't want competing
> brands shown on screen as against brands which were
> being adverised on their channel. So cereal packets etc.
> would be shown with coloured cellotape - or rather "sticky
> backed plastic" covering up the names on the packets.

Indeed. And a number of fake brands were created for high-visibility
items like cigarette packets, point-of-sale displays in shop scenes, etc.

I can remember "Playman's" cigarettes from the mid-60s (around the time
that cigarette adeverts were banned) and of course, there's always
"Newton & Ridley's".

[Moron Watch]

"JNugent" <jenni...@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:eagd48...@mid.individual.net...

You'd imagine that they'd have thought of that, right from the off.
But I can distinctly remember, it may have been on Corrie
in the B/W 60's a cereal packet with grey tape covering the
name. I only remember at all, because it looked a bit naff
at the time.

[GordonD]

On 03/12/2016 10:32, Martin wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 00:31:05 +0000, Jim S <j...@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:
>

> and weren't all multimillionaires.
>

Or sexual predators.
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

[GordonD]

Dave Allen once told a joke where he said the only brand names allowed
to be mentioned on the BBC were The Times, Rolls Royce and Harrod's.

"So I was being driven to Harrod's in my Rolls Royce, reading The Times
and drinking a bottle of that black stuff with the white head..."

[damdu...@yahoo.co.uk]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 00:54:26 -0000 (UTC), Gordon Freeman
<Gor...@freeman.invalid> wrote:


>>>> It was better when the Beeb weren't even allowed to say 'Cornflakes'.
>>>
>>>Then there was the time when BBC prenters were not allowed to appear in
>>>adverts.

>> Hence John Noakes appearing in a commercial with a Dog called Skip
>> instead of Shep

>Shep was his stage name.

I understood it was a different but very similar looking dog and
haven't found any evidence that it wasn't so I'll still hold to that .
Can't see a dog having two everyday names anyway,
Though a dog may well have a long one for registration if it is a
pedigree they usually have a simple one for calling them such as Max
as saying something like " Maxwell Murdoch of Bolton put that postman
down" is a bit of a Mouthful.
So would the dog easily respond to being called Skip most of the time
and Shep when on camera, it seems an unnecessary complication.
But if you are correct it just reinforces the fact that he could not
use the stage name for non BBC approved purposes even further.

G.Harman



G.Harman

[Max Demian]

Well the original Lassie (of Lassie Come Home fame) was really called
Pal, though he adopted Lassie as his screen/TV name. Fortunately
collies have long enough hair to conceal his sex change.

--
Max Demian

[GordonD]

On 05/12/2016 14:39, damdu...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 00:54:26 -0000 (UTC), Gordon Freeman
> <Gor...@freeman.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>>>> It was better when the Beeb weren't even allowed to say
>>>>> 'Cornflakes'.
>>>>
>>>> Then there was the time when BBC prenters were not allowed to
>>>> appear in adverts.
>
>>> Hence John Noakes appearing in a commercial with a Dog called
>>> Skip instead of Shep
>
>> Shep was his stage name.
>
> I understood it was a different but very similar looking dog

It was a different dog. Shep belonged to the BBC (though he lived with
Noakes) so they banned him from appearing in commercials. It didn't take
a genius to find a way round that, hence the lookalike called Skip. If
you weren't paying close attention (and who does, to adverts?) you might
mishear the dog's name and just assume it was the one off Blue Peter.