Bulgaria’s Council for Electronic Media decided to slap Darik Radio with a hefty fine for airing a recorded Madonna invitation to her fans in Bulgaria, because in the invitation, the pop-star spoke English, Bulgarian daily 24 Chasa daily has reported.
According to chapter 12 article 1 of the Radio and Television Act, all advertisement in foreign languages are forbidden, and so the commission has ordered Darik Radio to pay a penalty, the amount of which is expected to be in the range of 2000 to 15000 leva. Should the radio station repeat the broadcast, the fine will be doubled.
The 10 second message from Madonna to her fans in Bulgaria said; “Hello Bulgaria, this is Madonna and I expect to see you at the August 29 show in Sofia in Vassil Levsli Stadium”.
A spokesperson for Sofia Music Enterprises, the Bulgarian organisers of Madonna’s concert, said “this is normal procedure and it is used in all countries. Any time Madonna has a concert in a country, she records a message for her fans, and it is always in English. There is no way that an exception will be made just for us.”
Konstantin Vulkov, program manager of Darik Radio said the station “apologies that Madonna is not proficient in Bulgarian.”
Darik Radio will have to stop the offensive broadcast, unless Madonna brushes up on her Bulgarian.
source: sofiaecho
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I would ask where do you live – the Communist party, renamed to Socialist party, has been ruling the country in the last 8 years. A few years earlier it lead the country to a national catastrophe (with average monthly income of $3-10). It still keeps the power in the country. Don’t try to twist it by talking about another small party with that name. I think the society in that country needs to do a lot more things before growing up enough to have a Madonna concert in the country. I definitely think it does not deserve one.
Who do you think you are to verdict where and when someone should go? So sorry for you man… You claim to be a Madonna fan but you didn’t get anything from her music and her way of thinking. Live in ignorence as you prefer, sad, sad human being…
You will get who am I. Definitely it’s not Madonna’s way of thinking to support slavery and repression in any form like the ones you do in your forum. Seems it’s you who don’t get her way of thinking. So sorry for you man… It’s you who support a communist forum owned by an adviser of the former Prime Minister from the communist party who led the country to a major bankruptcy and a national catastrophe a few years ago. You did nothing to change the situation, it was me who has been doing it for years. Live in ignorance as you prefer, sad, sad human being…
Come to the only one free forum YourMadonna.com and explain yourself.
Online, my dear, where do you live? The fact that there is a stupid media institution in Bulgaria does not put the country near your sick description of it. By the way, the Comunist party have around 0.2% votes in the last parlamentary vote ;)
One thing for sure, bulgarian audience is incredible and you may be calm that this will be one of the craziest and most remebered concerts from the tour. ;)
I don’t want to make this topic about arguing, but remidelino, i can give you a few very stupid american laws as example that stupiditi could be find anywhere in the world. Let’s respect each other, let’s respect more the people from different countries. Ecpecially if you don’t know much about them…
This is the smallest problem. This country is still ruled by the communists and the Turks. It has been enslaved by the Turks for 500 (five hundred) years not so long ago. This law is a protection against the continuous slavery by the Turk scoundrels. This particular Turk is ruling the country:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnnHG7X1dvg
He is a spy of the Bulgarian and Turkish secret services. Turkey is ruling the country, not the people from Sofia. Take a look how impudent he is.
There is no democracy, only communists and Turks. The Communism has not fallen in this country! I wonder why Madonna would visit such a country at all. She should not go at the moment there until the situation improves. It’s even dangerous for her as the mafia is still strong. Her security has to be very strict anyway.
ARE YOU CRAZY??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? THE COMMUNISM IN BULGARIA HAS FALLEN AT 1989! “ONLY COMMUNISM AND TURK”-”TURKEY RULING THE COUNTRY”…..???????YOU ARE VERRY SICK.DO YOU THING THAT YOU UNDERSTAND ,BUT IT’S NOT TRU.WHEN YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT BULGARIA,FIRST LEARN ABOUT HIS HISTORY!!!
Just watch the video above that I posted. The communists are still in power – they are the same scoundrels from the same party, they only changed their name to socialist and became capitalists but these are the same people from the same party. Most of the time after 1989 they have been ruling the country, they have full control on it now too.
thank god i don’t live in america
o dear. idiotic things like this remind me to be thankful i live in america.
WHAT A STUPID DICK SUCKIN COUNTRY.
u should respect other people and other countries…..
That’s so stupid
The real reason is that she mentions the current old name of the country which is not approved of and has to be changed. If she said Sofia instead, it would not be a problem. Guy Oseary has been informed about the problem but she did not re-record the message and it has been stopped.
G-SUS…
how stupid is this law….
http://www.amazon.fr/gp/bestsellers/dmusic/ref=sv_dmusic_1 madonna is #1 in amazon france
That’s so weird. Do they want Madonna to speak their language? No way!
Wow… The notion of a foreign language ban is shocking.
i thing that’s not true……last year i was in bulgaria-beautiful place.one of the best my holiday!!!
but when this is true……it’s toooooo stupid!!! Madonna you are the best and i will always love you!
I am from Brazil, and I understand the Bulgarian law, they want to keep their values, i totaly respect that. The radio should know this and do not put the ad. livve on the radio.
what a country… thanx God i dont live there..