Beijing Adult Entertainment: Chinese municipal news channel punished for airing obscene ad
… BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) — China’s state television regulator has issued
a half-month ban on all commercial ads of a municipal TV news channel in central
Hunan Province for airing an obscene advertisement.
All commercial ads and consultation programs would be suspended from July
27 to August 11 in the news channel of Zhangjiajie TV station for broadcasting a
“vulgar” advertisement, according to a recent notice posted on the Web site of
the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT).
The advertisement, featuring a female “sex worker” glamorizing the effects
of medical capsule in a night program called “men’s private conversation” was
“extremely indecent”, according to the notice.
SARFT ordered radio, film and television regulators at all levels to
examine sex-related ads and consultation programs and vowed to severely punish
violators of relevant rules and regulations.
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