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If there is a game 6 in the World Series it will start about 15 minutes later to accomodate an ad by Barack Obama.
From the Hollywood Reporter.
Barack Obama might have the power to move the World Series by a few minutes.
To accommodate a half-hour Obama time buy on Fox on Oct. 29, Major League Baseball has agreed to move the start time of World Series Game 6 by about 15 minutes. That would move the start of the game from 8:20 p.m. ET or so to 8:35 p.m.
“Fox will accommodate Senator Obama’s desire to communicate with voters in this longform format,” Fox Sports said in a statement. “We are pleased that Major League Baseball has agreed to delay the first pitch of World Series Game 6 for a few minutes in order for Fox to carry his program on Oct. 29. If requested, the network would be willing to make similar time available to Senator McCain’s campaign.”
Along with CBS and NBC, Fox was approached by the Obama campaign last week to purchase the 8-8:30 p.m. time slot Oct. 29. If a Game 6 is needed, Fox is obligated to carry the game. That prevented the network from agreeing outright to carry the commercial, which was cleared by CBS and NBC last Thursday.
The blessing from MLB clears the way for Fox to air the promo and collect upward of $1 million in ad revenue for the half hour, more than what either CBS or NBC was charging.
While a big network ad buy from a presidential candidate is rare, it’s not unprecedented for a network and sports league to move the start time of a sports event to accommodate a political broadcast. In early September, the National Football League moved up the kickoff time of the opening-night game — which aired on NBC — to 7 p.m. to make sure that the game would be over before Sen. John McCain stepped up to the podium to accept the nomination of the Republican party during the RNC.
Considering the generally righward tilt of Fox this isn’t about helping Obama but about the money they will collect by airing the Obama ad. In this tough ad climate it is all about the Benjamin’s.
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3 Comments for Obama Ad to Delay World Series
Well wouldn’t if be “fair” if the network gave John McCain equal time?
These are seemingly accurate accounts of what fox representatives have stated
“Fox will accommodate Senator Obama’s desire to communicate with voters in this longform format,” Fox Sports said in a statement. “We are pleased that Major League Baseball has agreed to delay the first pitch of World Series Game 6 for a few minutes in order for Fox to carry his program on Oct. 29. If requested, the network would be willing to make similar time available to Senator McCain’s campaign”
“Our first pitch for the world series is usually around 8:30 anyway—so we didn’t push back the game, it was really just about suspending the pre-game—you know, Joe Buck,” said the account executive, Joe Coppola. “That’s all we did”
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/fox-we-didnt-push-back-wo_n_138705.html)
Yeah, but it is also that your “right-leaning” Fox is leaning further and further to the left as time passes. Barack Obama slams Fox at every opportunity – because the haters in his base love him to do it, yet he knows if he wants to get his message out, the one remaining news outlet is Fox that people wanting balance will watch.
Why put it on a MSM outlet that are in the tank for Obama – the only idiots that watch those are the idiots indoctrinated into socialism already and all will be voting for Obama anyway. Of course he is putting his national show on the others also besides Fox as it is a way for him to pay them for their campaign services and get around campaign finance laws.
If law was followd in America, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC, and CNN would have to file as a 527 corp for their advertising (they call it news) for the election of Obama. This way they get paid by Obama for doing it.
Anyone for MORE campaign finance reform?
I wonder, if John McCain wanted to postpone the World Series for 15 minutes, if MLB would pander to him as they have to Obama? Yeah, I agree, they would not. Ironic, it is Obama and leftists that constantly drop the race card, but they are the only racists in the race – and MLB is scared they will yell racism if they do not pander to the racist left of Obama.