Party political broadcast
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A party political broadcast (also known, in pre-election campaigning periods, as a party election broadcast) is a television or radio broadcast made by a political party.
In the United Kingdom the
A similar format exists in the Republic of Ireland, though for smaller parties, because a greater number of them are represented in the Dáil, their allocated time may be as little as one or two minutes each.
In Canada, the Canada Elections Act includes provisions for free-time election broadcasts (in addition to paid advertising) during Canadian federal elections, on all licensed terrestrial television and radio networks; notably, however, none of Canada's main English-language private television networks (CTV, Global and Citytv) actually operates under a network license anymore, meaning that in actual practice in the 2020s this provision applies only to the CBC's main radio and TV networks, and the private French-language networks TVA and Noovo.[4] CBC Television formerly broadcast the regular weekly series The Nation's Business, in which Members of Parliament from all parties could give a short speech on a political issue, but this series no longer airs.
In Asia, party political broadcasts have existed in Singapore since 1980, where they are known as political party broadcasts. In Japan, party political broadcasts are known as seiken hōsō (政見放送). In Brazil, party political broadcasts are known as horário político. In Chile, party political broadcasts are known as franja electoral.
See also
- Zendtijd voor Politieke Partijen — Netherlands equivalent
- Franja electoral — Latin American equivalent
- Ministerial broadcast — representing the government rather than the governing party
- Cadena nacional — a similar Latin American equivalent
References
- ^ UPM Binaries Corwin.com [dead link]
- BCAP code. Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice(BCAP). Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- ^ "10 Prohibited categories". BCAP code. Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP). Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- ^ "Allocation of Free Broadcasting Time". Elections Canada.
Cross,S. and Wring,D. (2017) The Longest Running Series on Television: Party Political Broadcasting in Britain, in Holtz-Bacha,C. and Just, M.(ed) Routledge Handbook of Political Advertising, Routledge Handbook of Political Advertising
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