Food for thought

Thanks to Kuttsywood for pointing out this story saying the Queensland government is considering a ban on junk-food advertising during children's television programming. I think it's the wrong approach. Instead, the government should be actively targetting the parents who buy the stuff, not the kids who try to pester them into doing it - which is what banning the ads would do. Perhaps the junk food companies who want to advertise in kids' TV time should also be forced to subsidise prime-time ads telling couch-potato parents about healthy eating.

Here is a more detailed

Here is a more detailed story- http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/qld-to-ban-junk-food-tv-...

But it leads me to wonder Brett, with two out of three Brisbane commercial stations with playout interstate, do you think they could circumvent a massive loophole? Could Seven for instance chuck on a Melbourne feed into Queensland homes, just to keep national advertisers like McDonald's, KFC and Red Rooster happy?

(Speaking of Brisbane television, Bruce Paige hasn't been on National Nine News since Monday with a lot of the reporters doing the afternoon updates Paige would have done if he was there. He is either sick (but Heather Foord has not mentioned anything, yet...) or do you think Brett, that his contract with Nine expires a lot sooner than we all thought. Frank's taken another vacation too, It won't help any ratings wars when you have your weatherman on vacation and your lead male anchor whose contract is expiring (possibly as early as September 21 judging by the date of http://blogs.news.com.au/couriermail/showbritz/index.php/couriermail/com... ), is gone suddenly.)

Speaking of Olympic events

Speaking of Olympic events (to get the couch potatos up and over the Gateway Bridge [ www.bridgetobrisbane.com.au/ ]) Brett, the Brisbane Television Olympics have just concluded.

(Warning- this is a attempt at humor.)

Here's some results.

Newsreading-2 Day Event- Gold Medallist Sharyn Ghidella (more here- http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24248710-5012980,00.htm... )[Note: article is a serious story!]

Weather presenting-Pentathlon- Gold Medallist John Schluter.
DQ'ed for not turning up to start line without limo, Frank Warrick.

Local programming- 5x30min relay- Gold Medallist Brisbane Extra.
DQ'ed for dropping the baton at the start, Channel 7.

And finally Local promotion- 1500 metres freestyle,
Gold Medallist- Channel Nine Brisbane-Nine For Queensland
Silver Medallist- Channel Seven Melbourne, I mean Brisbane- Love You Queensland

I hope you enjoyed my attempt at comedy...

Yes, I got a smile -

Yes, I got a smile - especially from the Frank Warrick limo mention.

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