Ad Council balks at FCC's 'nutty' PSA ruling.(News)(Federal Communications Commission's ruling on public service ads is challenged)

Advertising Age, November, 2002 by Teinowitz, Ira

Byline: IRA TEINOWITZ

The Ad Council plans to ask Congress to overrule a new Federal Communications Commission ruling, which could force $60 million of public service ads to be yanked, according to the council's livid leadership.

The FCC ruling, which looks sure to spark a major feud, states that public service ads run to meet the matching ad requirements of White House anti-drug campaign media buys must be tagged as ``from the government.''

Calling the decision ``nutty'' and in conflict with legislation creating the anti-drug program run by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Ad Council President-CEO Peggy Conlon argued that the tag would confuse viewers and undermine the messages of the organizations that participate in...

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