Vanity Publishing: Difference between revisions

* The broadcasting equivalent to vanity publishing is [[Brokered Programming]]; the placement of a show on a commercial station as a [[astroturf|paid, program-length commercial]]. Most of these are clearly [[infomercialInfomercial]]s or [[Product Placement]] and (because of the pesky [[payola]] laws which govern over-the-air TV and radio) must carry a disclaimer as such. Brokered programming is plagued with for-profit [[televangelism]], where the purpose of the program is to solicit monetary donations. This sort of content often appears on [[Struggling Broadcaster|low-powered or marginal stations]]. A few nominally religious organisations have bought or constructed radio or TV stations as satellite-fed rebroadcasters to transmit self-serving propaganda, solicit donations or engage in self-promotion. Some of these use or abuse "non-commercial educational" frequency allocations, placing them in direct competition with public broadcasters (like [[NPR]], America's national public radio) for increasingly-scarce spectrum.