Francisque
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CN CEE "was" broadcast with an OFCOM license, as most other EMEA operations bar very few others like CN Italy (not since the beginning either, since CN Italy also had been broadcast with a British license), which meant there are huge restrictions with the junk food for children bans since 2006, hence why the "non-local" decisionsIt's funny, back in the 2000s most ads on the Hungarian subfeed of CN CEE were directed at children, but in the 2010s it became more general (various supermarkets, clothes, food and drinks... and of course, toilet paper). I never thought too much about it, in fact, I reckon we've even had adverts for alcohol on the channel, which wouldn't be too off-colour - if you visit Hungary, you can see various adverts for unhealthy food and drink products everywhere on the streets, so there's no point in policing it for children's channels specifically. Because even if you didn't show those adverts on TV, you could easily come across them whilst on the tram for instance.
EDIT: Though my stance on this is similar to my stance on cursing - older dubs for cartoons featured some cursing here and there... and I know that objectively speaking maybe they shouldn't have (though it doesn't feel very odd for something like Total Drama), I think children hear way worse cursing in their day to day lives, so at that point, it doesn't make a difference if a curse word can be heard in a cartoon. Couple that with the fact that many children watch adult shows in secret (especially Family Guy and South Park come to mind)... I'm not saying cartoons on CN should have cursing in them, I'm just saying that it's very noticable that the language is often toned-down.
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Total ban for junk food ads around kids' shows
10.45am update: Ofcom has announced a total ban on junk food ads around all kids' programming, plus shows that have a 'particular appeal' to under-16s. By Mark Sweney.
Some argue which is what killed children's TV in the UK, but I'm somehow doubtful, since, the deletion of children's TV presentation blocks and so on was already ongoing during such an era not just in the UK, probably moving towards higher Internet presence since 2005
As for the junk food bans: even in countries without too much of local restrictions, adverts for that kind of thing and children in general, are getting rarer and rarer