Posted on 10/27/2008 7:25:04 PM PDT by DocT111
ABC will air "Pushing Daisies" in its usual time period on Wednesday night -- not the Barack Obama ad.
The news ends a guessing game that's been going on for nearly a month. The Obama campaign bought a half hour of airtime on NBC, Fox and CBS on Oct. 9, spending about $1 million per network. ABC was absent from the list and the network remained silent about its programming intentions. With ratings for "Daisies" slipping, some have wondered whether the network would air "Daisies" as usual, also air the Obama ad, or run something else entirely.
One source said ABC offered the airtime, but the Obama campaign, for whatever reason, declined to buy an ad.
Perhaps the campaign decided ads running on three broadcast networks was sufficient, or decided to pour the money into, say, West Virginia.
The move gives Obama near-domination of the major broadcast networks at 8 p.m. Wednesday evening less than a week before Election Day. Spanish-language broadcaster Univision will also air the ad. Fifth broadcaster the CW will counter program with its usual show in the time period, "America's Next Top Model."
Obama's increasingly mysterious special has not yet been delivered to networks. Sources say the ad is almost certainly taped, rather than a live telecast, and can be submitted as late as the morning of its broadcast. The special was parodied this weekend on "Saturday Night Live
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Here’s hoping that Daisies wins its time slot.
pushing up daisies will be our lot if obamao is elected.
Everyone will be tuning in to the non messiah channel.
Guess this means we have to watch this show.
There's something almost poetic about this, lol.
Fox News should announce that they will be having Sarah Palin on for 30 minutes to discuss the election during the same time period.
Time to watch a new show. Hello Daisies.
Well, we could have a FReepathon instead!
Have the dems would tune in to that. Bambi would be so sad...
I can’t believe Fox is airing it.
ABC FOR ME WEDNESDAY NIGHT !!
What’s he going to be selling...the power juicer...Sham Wow...what??
I’l be checking out Pushing Daisies...
Helll yes
There is a Toyota commercial:
“Saved by Zero”
Pushing Daisies: The wife of a murdered chef, Bao Di, hires Emerson to investigate the death of her husband. So Ned, Emerson, Chuck, and Olive all go undercover at the Chinese restaurant where the murder took place. Meanwhile, Ned encounters a mysterious man who claims to have ties to his past, and Emerson is reunited with polygamist widow Simone Hundin.
Every other channel:
You're going to pay, pay, pay, pay, pay for your sins of living in boring suburbs. Your wealth will be redistributed and if you resist I'm going to give you the full Pol Pot treatment. Vote for me... or else! PS Biden says "hi!" and "we're all going to die on January 21..." What? Joe, shut up!
If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s quirky, to say the least.
My girlfriend was watching abc last night. I was pissed due to the lack of Monday night football and keeping myself busy. I can’t believe what I heard. I can but I really don’t want to.
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