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Political Ads Now Filling The Air In Roanoke

Like a lot of other swing state markets, Roanoke, Va., is enjoying a windfall in poltical advertising this election season, even as viewers complain about the incessant spots. Jeffrey Marks, GM of CBS affiliate WDBJ, says the market is now expecting to get more than double the $5 million originally forecast from the presidential contest alone.

 

 


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Jeff Groves says:

September 28, 2012 at 4:59 pm

If I ran a Video Store I’d saturate the Newspapers with full-page Ads advertising my Store explaining how people could avoid the commercials by purchasing DVD Box sets of their favorite TV shows.

Teri Keene says:

September 29, 2012 at 8:29 pm

These people in this story have heard of a DVR, right?