Posted on 10/29/2010 11:02:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK – For TV viewers, this cutthroat election year is a riot of attack ads and media saturation made possible by big-money donors. For TV stations, it's a stimulus package.
One research group expects TV political spending to hit a record $3 billion. The windfall may continue well past Election Day because regular advertisers are getting squeezed out of the schedule and could spend their ad budgets later. Coming out of a recession that put some broadcasters in or near bankruptcy protection, political spending is emerging as a critical — but temporary — source of revenue.
Several factors created the upsurge: tea party enthusiasm, self-financed millionaire candidates, an unusually high number of toss-up races and a Supreme Court ruling in January that eased rules on corporate campaign donations.
Ad rates are going up overall because political campaigns are taking up much of the commercial time. Station managers say many regular advertisers aren't able to buy ads now. That frees up money to spend later.
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There ought to be a law.
“For TV viewers...”
They lost me, at that point.
Nah, our local conservative radio station is taking anti-Toomey ads. It’s makes me laugh cause I think, “Go ahead, waste your money suckers.”. I’m sure the station feels the same. If they want to pay for the time...
Good gosh I can’t wait for Nov. 2nd!
Campaign ads are the reason there’s a “MUTE” button on Remotes.
The ruling did no such thing - corporations still cannot give to federal campaigns. They can spend their own money to air political ads, but that's not the same thing as making contributions to campaigns.
Legacy media writing about legacy media appealing to legacy voters. ZZZZZZZ.
The MSM have done loads of stories about the Internet’s role in fundraising and organizing but they never seem to get round to discussing the way in which their own liberal bias is exposed and circumvented.
You know, Virginia radio and TV stations benefit from political advertising annually because every year Virginia has some election going on. There are Congressional elections every two years in even-numbered years and state legislature elections every two years in odd-numbered years.
Who cares?
I quit watching TV a couple of years ago.
I stopped watching TV news (99.9723% of the time) many years prior to that.
My news started coming from AM radio in 1989 when I first heard of Rush Limbaugh. Since then it was progressively supplemented with internet blogs.
I quit listening to public radio/TV news about 6 years after leaving Vietnam. I learned that news reporting had absolutely nothing to do with actual facts but rather the idealistic reporting from people who had absolutely no idea about life as it is and rather life as “they” wanted it to be.
I realized about that time that their sense of reality was contrary to everything logical and sane. It was not based on life’s true experiences but rather propaganda stuffed into their less then fertile minds. For everyone else they heaped their disgust and vile on thinks I knew to be good and (more or less) true.
It was Rush who gave me faith that there were others like me who felt totally different ab0ut just about everything.
I think it was the fact that my parents had been shamed by the liberal news reporters and would not even support my military service (either public or private). There were many like myself that just quit listening and learned to keep our opinions to ourselves.
No more!
When it’s raining soup, there’ll always be someone outside with a bowl.
just for fun, the GOP Congress should float a bill to adopt European laws giving both parties in the election free air time. The wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from the lamestream media would be just hilarious!
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