That may have just influenced my vote. > Even better, on NBC it will be during Knight Rider, so it looks like it will air a comedy after the Obama ad instead.
and Obama is getting the time cheap because they have to sell political ads at the lowest cost. He'll probably be able to raise more money than it cost. They will probably show the website url and ask people to sign up for text message updates. "According to papers available at CBS's headquarters in New York, the campaign agreed Monday to pay $961,000 for the entire 8-8:30 pm time period. It wasn't clear whether that was in pattern, meaning it would run across all time zones at that period. NBC will sell Obama the half-hour time buy for $891,250 gross and $775,000 net, according to documents from NBC available at its 30 Rock headquarters... The campaign's ad buyer GMMB of Washington, D.C., first approached CBS as well as NBC, ABC and Fox for half-hour time buys on Thursday, Oct. 30, Sunday, Nov. 2 and Monday, Nov. 3 -- the latter just one day before the election. But Sunday's "roadblock" of ads had been deemed unworkable due to NFL football on NBC during primetime and possibly late-running games on both CBS and Fox. The Thursday and Sunday buys would have been more costly, with CBS quoting the campaign a lowest unit cost of $1.5 million for 8-8:30 pm and $1.8 million for 8:30-9 pm. On Sept. 25, a CBS internal communication suggested that the campaign wasn't interested "as of now" in the Thursday spot..." http://hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ib51a5e93dda16ab7fb73c509a16deaf3 -- Steve Rhodes http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos http://twitter.com/tigerbeat http://del.icio.us/tigerbeat interesting articles & sites --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
