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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMedia Executives Are Salivating Over Big Money Flooding the 2016 Election Cycle
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/22/one-group-americans-drool-wall-wall-presidential-campaign-ads-next-year-media-companies/At least one small slice of the American public looks forward to the non-stop, sleazy political advertisements set to inundate viewers during the 2016 elections: media executives and their investors.
Peter Liguori, the chief executive of Tribune Company, said earlier this month that the next presidential campaign presents enormous opportunity for advertising sales. Speaking at a conference hosted by J.P. Morgan Chase, Liguori, whose company owns television stations, referenced Super PAC spending as a key factor for why he thinks Tribune Co. political advertising revenue will rocket from $115 million in 2012 to about $200 million for the 2016 campaign cycle.
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In 2012, Les Moonves, president and chief executive of CBS, memorably said, Super PACs may be bad for America, but theyre very good for CBS.
His views appear unchanged. In a February investor call, Moonves predicted strong growth with the help of political spending, particularly on television. He added dryly, looking ahead, the 2016 presidential election is right around the corner and, thank God, the rancor has already begun.
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In spite of declining television advertising revenue expected this year, credit rating agencies recently gave broadcast companies a sunny two-year outlook. The reason, Carl Salas, Moodys senior credit officer, told the Los Angeles Times, is that political ad spending is expected to boom next year thanks in large part to the Citizens United decision. Political advertising revenue defies gravity, Salas remarked.
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The clown car raises money for the MEdia in the end, and the more the merrier.
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Media Executives Are Salivating Over Big Money Flooding the 2016 Election Cycle (Original Post)
deminks
May 2015
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kentuck
(111,103 posts)1. I bet they are!
You don't want to see your favorite "talking head" fired from your favorite "talking head channel", do you? It's all part of the huge campaign circus...
enough
(13,259 posts)2. Which ensures there will never be any serious media coverage or discussion
of the effect of Citizens United on our democracy and political system.