TV Stations in New Hampshire, Iowa Cash In on Early-Vote Status
Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Iowans who tuned in to WHO-TV on Dec. 11 got an extra dose of presidential politics with their 6 o'clock news. The half-hour program contained eight spots for candidates, two for Barack Obama, and one each for Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo and Mike Huckabee. A union weighed in with a plug for Clinton.
... With the Iowa contest three weeks away, the candidates are ramping up their saturation of the airwaves. In one ad broadcast during the Dec. 11 evening news, Obama, an Illinois senator, highlighted a speech he gave in Des Moines on Nov. 10. In another, he touted his education plan. Clinton, a New York senator, focused her message on her strength and experience.
...The influx of spending has a downside for local advertisers. Television stations are required by law to make a ``reasonable'' effort to provide time to candidates, elbowing local retailers off the air during the political season.
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I think this article is important because if it wasnt for advertisers and television we would most likely be lost in the campaign. No a days everyone believes what they hear. But it amazes me how the canidates are on the telivision now to tell everyone that there going to do this and that, well how come there not going on the telivision when they arnt running for an election adn say there going to help out.
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