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Related: About this forumIf you listen to WCPT please email them to stop playing those annoying ass commercials for
Adam Kinzinger. I know they don't have a lot of money but this shit about the "Obama and Pelosi way" is getting on my nerves.
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If you listen to WCPT please email them to stop playing those annoying ass commercials for (Original Post)
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2012
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If they're campaign commercials the station doesn't have a lot of leeway to say no.
Gidney N Cloyd
Mar 2012
#1
I keep forgetting that. I didn't vote early so I have to make sure to get back from my day trip
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2012
#4
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)1. If they're campaign commercials the station doesn't have a lot of leeway to say no.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,748 posts)2. Yeah that's what they are. Why is that BTW? nt
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)5. It's the "Reasonable Access" provision of the Communications Act.
I'm real rusty on this stuff and probably oversimplifying but stations have to allow legitimate candidates (maybe just federal offices) to buy advertising time and they have to give them the rock bottom rate, too.
mopinko
(71,652 posts)3. it's all over tomorrow anyway.
be glad cpt is getting the money. they need it.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,748 posts)4. I keep forgetting that. I didn't vote early so I have to make sure to get back from my day trip
on time to vote.