[georgiegirl]

My husband and I were surprised to see CNN ads on Fox News. What's up with that?

[USMA83]

CNN paid FOX's asking price for ad space?

[Keith]

Your local cable station is putting them there....bastards.

[dmz]

Spell it with me...M-O-N-E-Y

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

These "crossover' ads were explained by an insider on another thread. The advertisers now also buy national ad blocks with the cable companies and have only a few restrictions on where and when they show. It all sounds haphazard to me, from the advertisers standpoint.

[garyb]

My husband and I were surprised to see CNN ads on Fox News. What's up with that?

I'm also seeing the CNN ads on FNC. The ads that I'm seeing are in the "local" time block windows available to cable companies and satellite providers. Specifically, I'm seeing them on Dish Network.

Dish may have a (not so) subtle reason for the jab, so they may or may not have sold the time to CNN. They could just be running them as promotions during their time blocks.

Dish's main competitor is DirecTV, which is owned by News Corp... the parent company of FNC.

[ReignOfError]

My husband and I were surprised to see CNN ads on Fox News. What's up with that?

There are two kinds of ads on cable networks -- those sold by the network and the cheaper ads sold by the local cable provider. CNN, Fox and MSNBC -- along with other non-news cable networks -- make local buys on each other's stations.