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Posted on 08/22/2012 11:54:36 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Ann Romney may not make prime time during next week's Republican National Convention.
The three major television networks — NBC, ABC and CBS — are not airing prime-time coverage of the RNC on Monday, the opening night of the convention and the night that Ann Romney has been scheduled to deliver the keynote address. So in order to get Mitt's wife onto television, the campaign may have to scramble and reschedule her speech.
CNN, which will cover the speech, first reported earlier this week that Ann Romney is expected to headline the kickoff. The three networks all confirmed to POLITICO today that they would not be airing prime-time coverage of the RNC on Monday.
The Romney campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
UPDATE (1:23 p.m.): The networks will cover all three nights of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
Correction: An earlier update incorrectly stated that the networks would not cover the opening night of the Democratic convention. The Democratic convention, unlike the Republican convention, is only three nights — all of which will be covered in prime time by the networks.
I agree. I like the banner-less screen C-Span presents.
I’ll be watching GBTV convention coverage.
They have given up even pretending to be fair. Dis-freakin’-gusting of all of them!
The GOP is too stupid to use this to their advantage. They could change their programming to have people give talks about studies on media bias and how it adversly affects our political process.
How spin and air head network media leave the public without a clue of the issues facing the Nation because they are busy running the latest talking points and empty slogans (propaganda) out of the White House and DNC. How they revise the history we actually lived through. Show clips of them in action. Make fun of them...these are the supposedly “smart” people in America.
Suggest people turn ‘em off.
“Could someone set me straight on this? Are the networks giving equal time to both conventions or not?”
I don’t get this either. I thought they had to give equal time?
Why are you so fast to hit your caps-lock key? The R convention is 4 days, so they are trying to give equal time to both.
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