{"id":166,"date":"2005-09-03T03:11:44","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T07:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=166"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:57:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:57:28","slug":"no-to-tvs-in-subway-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/09\/03\/no-to-tvs-in-subway-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"No to TVs in subway cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publicspace.ca\/images\/eyettc.jpg\" alt=\" \" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, TTC commissioners voted 4 to 3 against a pilot project that would place TV screens with endless commercial loops in our subway cars. Hats off to councillors Adam Giambrone, Olivia Chow, Joe Mihevc, and Howard Moscoe for doing the right thing. If you&#8217;d like to know more about the debate surrounding TV ads on the TTC then go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicspace.ca\/ttcvideo.htm\">this web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We at <em>Spacing<\/em> think this is a smart move because it reflects the public&#8217;s weariness of ad encroachment. Canadians see or hear over 3,000 advertisements a day (about one every 20 seconds). A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrester.com\">Forrester Research<\/a> study found that 81% per cent of  us would love a device to skip\/block TV ads. On the subway, you don&#8217;t have control of the TV remote. <\/p>\n<p>The next possible form of bundled infrastructure the outdoor ad industry will try to buy its way into is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D8C2C42O0.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&#038;chan=db\">tunnel advertising<\/a><\/strong>.  Check out the tunnel ad experiments going on in each of these cities: <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/03\/04\/BAGSDBKDTU1.DTL\">San Francisco<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medialifemagazine.com\/news2001\/apr01\/apr09\/4_thurs\/news3thursday.html\">Atlanta<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/globe\/articles\/2004\/08\/18\/next_stop_ad_buzz\/\">Boston<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, each article contains very little public commentary or critical analysis. There are more words used to malign anyone who dislikes this form of ad creep. Check out this quote from Boston University&#8217;s dean of communications: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some civic do-gooder types might rattle cages because they see cities becoming one more Disneyworld of commercialism. 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If you&#8217;d like to know more about the debate surrounding TV ads<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/09\/03\/no-to-tvs-in-subway-cars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;No to TVs in subway cars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759,2,8],"tags":[11,629,630,499,627,631,633,330,552,628,21,576,632],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-politics","category-transit","tag-ad-creep","tag-adam-giambrone","tag-atlanta","tag-boston","tag-boston-university","tag-dean","tag-forrester-research","tag-howard-moscoe","tag-joe-mihevc","tag-olivia-chow","tag-other-cities","tag-san-francisco","tag-tunnel-advertising"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No to TVs in subway cars - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/09\/03\/no-to-tvs-in-subway-cars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No to TVs in subway cars - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Wednesday, TTC commissioners voted 4 to 3 against a pilot project that would place TV screens with endless commercial loops in our subway cars. 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