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10-16-2008, 03:31 AM
Obama buys time on the networks, pushing World Series back (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/10/obama-buys-time.html)
03:13 PM PT, Oct 15 2008
Major League Baseball agreed Wednesday to push back the start time of Game 6 of the World Series by about 15 minutes so that Fox Broadcasting Co. could sell Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/barack-obama) half an hour of prime time on Oct. 29.
The campaign also has bought (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/obama-primetime.html) the same time period -- 8 p.m. on Oct. 29 -- on CBS and NBC so that he can run a 30-minute program on all of the networks. Each network is selling the time for between $950,000 to $1 million. Buying time on all of the major broadcast networks would allow Obama to reach more than 20 million people on the Wednesday before the election. A spokesman for Fox said the network will make available a similar 30-minute block of time for the Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain (http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/john-mccain), if he chooses. Time for McCain would be either later that night (if there is no Game 6) or the following evening.
Major League Baseball did not have an immediate comment.
03:13 PM PT, Oct 15 2008
Major League Baseball agreed Wednesday to push back the start time of Game 6 of the World Series by about 15 minutes so that Fox Broadcasting Co. could sell Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/barack-obama) half an hour of prime time on Oct. 29.
The campaign also has bought (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/obama-primetime.html) the same time period -- 8 p.m. on Oct. 29 -- on CBS and NBC so that he can run a 30-minute program on all of the networks. Each network is selling the time for between $950,000 to $1 million. Buying time on all of the major broadcast networks would allow Obama to reach more than 20 million people on the Wednesday before the election. A spokesman for Fox said the network will make available a similar 30-minute block of time for the Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain (http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/john-mccain), if he chooses. Time for McCain would be either later that night (if there is no Game 6) or the following evening.
Major League Baseball did not have an immediate comment.