{"id":11208,"date":"2011-09-18T12:49:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T16:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2011-09-18T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T16:49:59","slug":"chinese-censors-crack-down-on-talent-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/18\/chinese-censors-crack-down-on-talent-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese censors crack down on . . . talent shows?"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’ve become too popular, and the text voting for winners sets too much of a democratic example, so China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT)<\/a> is ordering talent shows off the air:<\/p>\n

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The latest run of the hugely popular Super Girl<\/em> contest finished on Friday. A spokesman for Hunan Satellite Television said it would not show any TV talent shows with mass participation next year because it had been accused of breaking time limits.<\/p>\n

“Hunan Satellite Television obeys the state watchdog’s decision and will not hold similar talent shows next year,” said Li Hao.<\/p>\n

“Instead, the channel will air programmes that promote moral ethics and public safety, and provide practical information for housework.”<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

SARFT decreed that talent shows could not be shown in prime time — between 7.30pm and 10.30pm — or screened for more than two hours a day. It also banned text voting — with some suggesting officials were concerned that the democratic method of choosing the winner was a bad influence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They’ve become too popular, and the text voting for winners sets too much of a democratic example, so China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) is ordering talent shows off the air: The latest run of the hugely popular Super Girl contest finished on Friday. A spokesman for Hunan Satellite Television said it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10,28],"tags":[459,101],"class_list":["post-11208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-liberty","category-media","tag-censorship","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2UM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11209,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions\/11209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}