After claiming for months that he would join other top-tier GOP presidential candidates in running paid television advertisements, the real-estate mogul has reserved about $1.9 million for a seven-day ad blitz beginning Tuesday in New Hampshire and Iowa.
Sources in the Trump camp say they will soon launch a major ad blitz that could cost at least $2 million a week, and possibly several times that. The initial wave of ads will focus on Trump’s vision and his stance on key issues — no bio spots necessary for the celebrity candidate — but that could change if any GOP rivals target him with negative commercials.
In an extended discussion of Donald Trump‘s latest attack on Hillary Clinton, NBC’s Matt Lauer talked about Trump’s language as “demeaning” and “degrading” and “juvenile,” but he didn’t repeat the word that sparked the discussion: “schlong.”
The TV Networks’ Role In Trump’s Rise
Is it in the public interest for a calculating demagogue like Donald Trump to be granted such a large and powerful platform on which to present his increasingly alarmist world view?
Exclusives
After proposing to block Muslims from entering the U.S., Donald Trump made himself as available to the news media as he always does, despite espousing a plan more polarizing than any in a campaign that has thrived on confrontation. The stakes had perceptibly changed, though, and that made for electric, if not always informative, television moments Tuesday.
Univision lawyers filed papers in Manhattan federal court asking a judge to toss out the lawsuit Trump filed in July claiming that Univision unjustly broke a contract to broadcast beauty pageants, citing his “disgraceful allegations” about Mexican immigrants.
Donald Trump on Monday night threatened to boycott the next Republican debate unless hosting network CNN donates $5 million to a charity
A conference call Monday among ABC, CBS, CNN ,Fox and NBC to discuss issues related to press coverage of the Trump campaign reportedly ended without any set plans, and may lead to no formal action of any kind.
More than two weeks after Donald Trump’s performance on Saturday Night Live, NBC said John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, James Gilmore and Lindsey Graham each will get about 12 minutes of time to tout their candidacies during primetime on Friday and Saturday, and during this week’s Saturday Night Live.
Several broadcast networks are conferring on a possible response to recent actions by the Donald Trump campaign to insist that reporters covering its events remain confined to a holding pen, according to three television news sources — all of whom declined to comment on the record.
The Republicans say that Donald Trump’s appearance on Saturday Night Live entitles them to equal opportunity under the FCC’s rule.
NBC stations have begun filing the legally required notice about Donald Trump’s broadcast time on Saturday Night Live, noting that it lasted 12 minutes and five seconds.
‘Saturday Night Live’ Opens With 3 Donald Trumps
Trump’s 90 minutes in the SNL spotlight followed weeks of growing anticipation, increasingly sharp criticism and mounting calls for him to be dropped from the show. But the Republican presidential candidate hosted Saturday’s SNL as scheduled. And, at least in NBC’s Studio 8H, there was no more unrest — orchestrated or otherwise.
When Ratings Trump Princlples At NBC
NBC buried Donald Trump in June. After Trump’s cracks calling Mexicans rapists and accusing them of bringing crime and drugs to the U.S., the network couldn’t fire him fast enough. It kicked him off Celebrity Apprentice and banished his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants. “At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values,” the network announced righteously. Funny how those cornerstones crumble when it comes to ratings. The Donald is scheduled to host NBC’s Saturday Night Live tomorrow.
A coalition of advocacy groups delivered petitions to the network Wednesday calling for Donald Trump to be dropped from this week’s Saturday Night Live. The petitions delivered to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, home of NBC and SNL, marked the latest attempts to dissuade the network from allowing the Republican presidential hopeful to host the show, with the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda earlier asking that NBC reconsider the decision.
“We’re going to start advertising a little bit,” Donald Trump told Sean Hannity Tuesday night on the latter’s Fox News Channel program. This as a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed Ben Carson in the lead among GOP White House hopefuls at 29%, ahead of Trump at 23%, Marco Rubio at 11%, Ted Cruz at 10% and Jeb Bush at 8%.
In the photo on Instragram Tuesday, Good Morning America co-anchor Lara Spencer has one arm around Trump’s shoulder and the other across his midsection. The photo triggered comments that ranged from support for Spencer and Trump to attacks on her professionalism.
Donald Trump has resumed criticizing Megyn Kelly, threatening to disrupt the fragile, on-again-off-again truce between himself and Fox News. Trump took to Twitter during Kelly’s Thursday night broadcast to criticize her guests, as “dumb puppets.” He also claimed that he didn’t watch her show — which is doubtful, given his tweets — and retweeted users who disparaged the program.
Because of the FCC equal time rule, NBC could be put in a tough spot from one of Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination if the network follows through with plans it announced Tuesday to have Trump host Saturday Night Live on Nov. 7.
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has agreed to host “Saturday Night Live” next month. NBC said its former “Celebrity Apprentice” host will be the headliner of […]
The TV-turned-digital mogul says he will take any bet that Donald Trump will not be the next president of the United States. His campaign “is a phenomenon of reality television as politics and I think that that is how it started. Reality television, as you all know, is based on conflict… All he is is about conflict and it’s all about the negative conflict… He’s a self-promoting huckster who found a vein, a vein of meanness and nastiness.” See the video.
Donald Trump has found his kind of Christians. In a bid to consolidate support among evangelicals and keep his momentum from ebbing, Trump is courting charismatic televangelists who believe God wants you to be rich.
Donald Trump and senior editorial execs at Fox News Channel intend to meet to work out their differences, according to a statement released by the Fox-owned network.
Some argue the danger in the outsized media attention Trump draws in fact creates political momentum for his campaign. Many journalists, on the other hand, have maintained their professional innocence, instead pegging his rapid ascent to popular anger toward the Washington establishment.
