Could we get Noggin on a technicality?

I just thought off something.

Noggin has never once admitted to editing 'Daria' episodes. There's no disclaimer before the show, or during the few commercials they show (ie: "'Daria' has been edited from its original version for time and content"). Couldn't this be considered false advertising, and thus, illegal? Granted they've never said they're full eps either, but it's usually understood that full eps are being shown if there's no disclaimer. That is not the case here.

Anybody wih a broader law knowledge care to comment?

~LEXI "Hello fans. Or if you prefer to be addressed in standard MTV vernacular: Yo wassup dawg"-Daria

LEXI asked:

I don't recall any such disclaimers being applied to anything other than movies that were shown theatrically first before airing on TV (the basic cable or broadcast networks, not the premium cable channels).

You know, the notices that state a movie has been reformatted to fit your TV screen & has been edited for time and content. (This is more to appease the Directors' Guild of America & the Screen Writers' Guild.)

Reruns of syndicated shows have been edited for years without any notice to viewers. Ever see a disclaimer before an ep of "Gilligan's Island" or "Brady Bunch" or "I Love Lucy" or "Seinfeld?" Probably not. Editing a rerun seems to be expected, especially by local affiliates, who MUST be able to cram in as many car dealer commercials as possible in order to survive. (It's enough to make Happy Herb ill.)

If I get a breather from the cases I'm working on (yeah, RIGHT!), I'll do some checking on whether the disclaimers apply to TV show reruns as well as movies. (If there are any other lawyers out there with the answer, the floor is yours! :-) )

Chirping through the night (& ending all my paragraphs with parenthetical phrases -- I don't know why!),

Cricket