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Film ratings and distributors

I'm looking for the websites of respective film classification boards in Luxembourg, Malta and Vietnam where I can find ratings and local distributor of certain theatrical film. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 03:22, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For Luxembourg that doesn't seem to exist. http://www.luxembourg.public.lu/fr/actualites/2010/07/05-CSCF/index.html (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 17:57, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Same in Malta. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 15:44, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Film at 11

"This is a later interpretation of the idiom, as news broadcasts were not counted in ratings during the time 16mm film was used in newsgathering and hence promotions typically took the form of "newsflashes" or "special reports" which simply conveyed the facts of the story." — What exactly do "ratings" and "newsgathering" refer to? I can't really make head or tail of this statement.--Tuchiel (talk) 19:37, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Ratings" means Nielsen ratings. "Newsgathering" just means the process of preparing a news report, such as learning the facts and filming the events.

That's a rather poor article you're linking to. I'm tagging it for NPOV. --69.159.60.147 (talk) 21:07, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much.--Tuchiel (talk) 17:22, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

PS: Actually, the whole sentence still does not really make sense to me: "and hence promotions typically took the form of "newsflashes" or "special reports" which simply conveyed the facts of the story." — Don't modern news reports convey the facts of the story, too? And what does "hence" refer to here – I mean why should the newsflash thing be an argument for the purported fact that news broadcasts did not count in ratings? Sorry if I'm blockheaded. Best--Tuchiel (talk) 17:34, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is all in reference to broadcast news, as opposed to on-demand news. Broadcast news is commonly delivered as a teaser and then, later, the story. A ridiculous example might be something like starting out as 6:03pm with "There are three things you probably have in your kitchen that are likely to kill you in the next month! Stay tuned in to find out what they are." Technically, they are delivering content, but only just enough to get you to listen to other stuff while you wait for the real story. This does not have to be limited to a single broadcast. Assume that a station has news at 6 and 11 (very common). The 6pm news show would want to let people know about the triple-murder that took place that afternoon, but they would also want you to tune in at 11pm to get more news. So, they would make a promise that there would be more information at 11 (the whole "film at 11" trope). So, in a nutshell, the 6pm news does a teaser, the team does "newsgathering" to prepare a better product that will be on "film at 11." 209.149.113.5 (talk) 14:30, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]