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Self Promotion Disguised As News
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When a TV news show runs a feature on a TV program that shows on the same channel, it is usually to promote said program. Some of these are more subtle than others. Common variations are; "Tropey the Wonder Dog is breaking all ratings records!" "The little-known true story behind critical darling Tropey the Wonder Dog!" "Awww lookit da widdle doggies they're training to appear in Tropey the Wonder Dog!" "The new season of Tropey the Wonder Dog is moving to our new streaming service!" See also Advertising Disguised as News, when a blatant advertisement for an outside product/service is presented as editorial content on a TV program/etc. |
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While holding its contest to determine the new opening theme of Hockey Night in Canada, CBC promoted the contest and the competing composers with coverage on its news site. | |
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Similarly, if an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition house was being built, you could expect no less than 10 minutes per newscast of live cut-ins of the building site from the local ABC affiliate. ABC affiliates do this with Dancing with the Stars. |
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This was already been parodied as far back as 1991 when one of the between-story squibs in Temps was a Sun article on "20 Things You Never Knew About Paranorms", and no. 19 was that there was a documentary about them on Sky One that night. | |
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One good example has come out of this; in the wake of the success of America's Most Wanted, some Fox affiliates have done their own, localized versions of the concept during newscasts, where lower-profile criminals not of national interest get highlighted to either turn themselves in or encourage members of the public call in tips to catch them. One such version, KCPQ's Washington's Most Wanted, still airs to this day as a standalone program, even with the cancellation of the original series. | |
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Occasionally slightly more justified when they're lead-ins to investigative journalism shows like Panorama. Then it tends to be more in the category of "genuine news story followed by in-depth investigative program on the same subject". | |
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Ditto for Good Morning America on ABC, which has shilled countless productions from Disney (ABC's parent company) and its other subsidiaries. Perhaps most notable of these is the Frozen (2013) sing-along in the wake of that film's massive Sleeper Hit popularity in early 2014. | |
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In a September 2011 episode of Media Watch, host Jonathan Holmes satirised and mocked this trope to hell and back when discussing how an ABC radio channel had devolved into doing it. | |
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The Talk is pretty much a Big Brother aftershow the day after eliminations. | |
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CTV's entertainment show eTalk did a special episode devoted to the Toronto premiere of the stage musical adaptation of Meat Loaf's iconic album Bat Out of Hell. What it failed to mention was that Bell Media has a stake in the production. | |
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CBS affiliates also love to air news stories about Survivor. Bonus points because, many times, the actual events happened months ago. | |
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If American Idol had a contestant from the vicinity of the local Fox affiliate, they would cover them in detail. For that matter, some affiliates aired fluff pieces about Idol regardless of whether or not there are any local contestants. | |
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During the buildup to the premieres of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and The Jay Leno Show the two hosts toured every NBC affiliate from Aberdeen to Yakima so NBC could kiss up to every local anchor they could find and promote the shows in interviews that made Byron Allen look like Edward R. Murrow. If they couldn't get the host to the site...they flew the anchors to an O&O station so they could still do the kiss-up interview. | |
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