Posted on 02/06/2009 5:50:22 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
President Obama's desire to talk -- and talk, and talk -- to the American public could cost broadcast networks millions, and millions, and millions of prime-time TV dollars.
Broadcasters are bracing themselves for the likelihood of three prime-time interruptions in three weeks, totaling at least three hours of prime time -- and ad breaks -- yanked.
"His economic stimulus package apparently does not extend to the TV networks," one network exec noted.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well, gee, big TV wanted him, and now it’s time to pay the piper. Sniff......
I don’t believe there is a law that says they have to carry his speeches. The answer is simp0le play something else. Myself, I will be watching cable.
Well just say no, networks! No one is forcing you to drop everything and air this airhead’s blather.
How many times did you refuse to give George W. Bush air time when he requested it? And patted yourselves on the back for your courage?
Sorry, I hope he asks for free air time every other day for the next nine months. If you network bigwigs are too dumb to say no to him, you deserve to be bankrupted.
I don’t care, I won’t be watching. Neither will anyone else.
“No one is forcing you to drop everything and air this airhead’s blather.”
Yet.
My mistake. I forgot about that Dear Leader will simply declare martial law and take over the airwaves and send trucks with loudspeakers into every neighborhood to air his airheaded blather.
Good old ‘Spiffy.’ Wasting American Tax Dollars AND blowing Advertising Revenue Dollars at the very same time. It’s a Two-Fer!
What a guy. *SMIRK*
It’s getting real good now.
Is he adding Death To Amerika at the end of his speeches yet?
I think Zero is tooooo expensive for America.
Like a kid who has gotten his first job. All that money to spend and so little time and they want it all and they want it now.
I still can’t bring myself to watch that child speak. Thank goodness I have my FR to bring me all the updates!
The networks should have thought about this before they went into the tank for Obama.
For myself, its a good opportunity to catch up on the WWE, reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies or other quality programming.
This president just isn’t that entertaining.
That’s okay, don’t watch TV anyway. Hope TV viewers gets tired of the interruptions and starts to complain...loudly and often.
Indoctrination time.
I think he is as entertaining as all get out, just not in a positive way. ;-)
The article quotes a tv suit who predicts that Americans are already tired of seeing this guy on tv 24/7.
And predicts that his never ending tv presence is going to cost him a lot of goodwill.
I don’t think 3 hours is enough time to rehypnotize the public.
This is peanuts. Hugo Chavez gives 4 hr televised speeches at least once a week, and Fidel, until he got too sick to do so, used to have 5 hour speeches where attendance was mandatory.
Hope the networks enjoy turning into the Bambi Propaganda Network. They did it to themselves by promoting somebody they didn’t know a darn thing about, just because he was the right color and they hated George Bush.
Can’t these televsion networks simply refuse to air it?
I’ll be watching cable, so it won’t matter ;)!
The executive order is coming. We are now under Communist rule. I know many will not believe this, but we the people are no longer part of the equation.
Perhaps just terms that are carelessly ignored as being "insignificant". An infinite number of those tend to make spikes on the cart.
I agree. They created him; they can have him. Whether they will eventually start to play their game of "We built him up; we can tear him down," or whether they have entirely too much invested him him to make that switch is something only time will tell. We are starting to live "in interesting times", aren't we.
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