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When the 1991 Parliament incorporated the phrase “natural program breaks” into the SBS Act it specifically intended this would restrict advertisement placement to:-
- half-time in a soccer match . . . in effect what will happen is that advertising will top and tail programs (Mr Smith Liberal).
- let us not try to get the advertising revenue that will make the SBS another commercial channel. If we do, again, that will change its character, and I do not think that is really what we are about (Mr Sinclair National).
- advertisement–at the beginning and the end of the sponsored program. In that way the viewers were not disturbed and were not constantly interrupted, as is the case on some of the commercial television programs (Mr Lee Labor).
