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Networks Likely To Turn Down Obama Primetime Request
imdb.com ^ | May 8, 2009

Posted on 05/09/2009 1:33:20 AM PDT by paudio

After losing some $30 million from advertisers while they covered President Obama's three primetime news conferences in recent months, the major television networks are likely to follow Fox's lead and turn down the White House when it asks them to preempt a primetime time period any time soon, the Hollywood Reporter reported today (Friday), citing several unnamed network executives. "We will continue to make our decisions on White House requests on a case-by-case basis, but the Fox decision gives us cover to reject a request if we feel that there is no urgent breaking news that is going to be discussed," one network exec told the trade publication.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: bho44; foxtv; msm; networks; obama; second100days; television; tpd; tv
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Yeah, at one point, they realize how stupid they are to basically subsidizing 0bama all the time when they don't get much from him.

The paragraph is from imdb, and there's nothing more there.

1 posted on 05/09/2009 1:33:20 AM PDT by paudio
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I suppose he’s going to “bail” them out for this and then impose his will and force them to put his face 24-7, mafya knee breaker loan shark style.


2 posted on 05/09/2009 1:37:59 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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He's very dependent on the goodwill adoration of the networks. I don't know if he realizes this, though.
3 posted on 05/09/2009 1:40:18 AM PDT by MetaThought
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Reminds me of Fidel Castro and Chavez.


4 posted on 05/09/2009 1:41:24 AM PDT by This Just In
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"Networks Likely To Turn Down Obama Primetime Request"

I wouldn't bet on it. They've sold their souls to Ø, and he's not about to give them back. He owns them.

5 posted on 05/09/2009 1:50:01 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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What a bunch of cowards using FOX to protect themselves from the tyrant BO.


6 posted on 05/09/2009 1:52:01 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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"Reminds me of Fidel Castro and Chavez."

They're amateurs compared to this guy. For them tyranny is just a diversion. For Ø, it's his passion, his raison d'etre.

7 posted on 05/09/2009 1:52:04 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: This Just In
Soon the recalcitrant Pubbies will be the least of Obie's concerns. Battle lines are being drawn by Dems who ran as Conservative Dems and who want to be reelected along with the MSM. It will be interesting to see how the Pontificator in Chief handles this two from war.
8 posted on 05/09/2009 1:52:24 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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To: This Just In

What we see is not much different from many dictators in the 3rd world countries. Sometimes we forget that many—if not most—of them also came to power through election. Not unlike in those countries, in today’s America it is common that we go to bookstores, T-shirt stores, and other places and see the picture of Our Great Leader there.


9 posted on 05/09/2009 1:54:28 AM PDT by paudio (Conservatism is a word with various meanings. To win, we need unified issue and message.)
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Oops

two front war!!!

10 posted on 05/09/2009 1:56:56 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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BO going for total saturation. Unfortunately, America isn’t completely made up of sponges, although, there are a few.


11 posted on 05/09/2009 1:58:17 AM PDT by This Just In
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IMHO the key phrase of the article is:

“the Fox decision gives us cover”

This sums up the MSM’s approach to everything - pact mentality at its worse.The big name reporters of the past going all the way back to Poor Richard’s Almanac must be spinning in their graves.


12 posted on 05/09/2009 3:09:57 AM PDT by Nip (Islam - a religion of piece (your head and life). Truth depends on the spelling)
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Obama is on TV almost everyday now. He never has anyhting new to say, so I just change the channel or go do something else. I wonder if these White House PR guys ever heard of “over saturation”.


13 posted on 05/09/2009 3:21:14 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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Bull crap. They are Hussein worshipers through and through. They’ll bow their knees before him and obey.


14 posted on 05/09/2009 3:27:55 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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You're right, but tyranny is too sophisticated a word.

They're in it for personal aggrandizement and the power high.

They love to reach out and make something happen. Cook County Dems are the Emperors of Control.

Control freak is just too tame a word.

15 posted on 05/09/2009 4:18:44 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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OBAMA: BAD FOR PROFITS


16 posted on 05/09/2009 5:01:04 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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“They love to reach out and make something happen”

And here in lies the problem. Change for change sake is never a good thing unless you know what you’re doing. If you don’t you may change things in ways no one could ever imagine. Sometimes the best course of action is to do nothing, which is something that “progressives” never understood.


17 posted on 05/09/2009 5:44:23 AM PDT by RU88
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To: paudio
Networks take a big hit when they pre-empt their normal schedule like this. Not only are they losing the ad revenue as the article states, but they're losing one important thing that provides "brand/product differentiation" for them compared to other media outlets: their prime-time programs.
18 posted on 05/09/2009 6:23:40 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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He’s fired CEO’s and nationalized our auto industry. Think that he will let a few media bigwigs stand in his way?


19 posted on 05/09/2009 6:27:05 AM PDT by listenhillary (Rahm Emmanuel slip - A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
He is on TV almost everyday now. Have they made a horizontal bobble-head of him yet?
20 posted on 05/09/2009 7:01:43 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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