Stations Won't Air Conservative Ads Attacking Comcast-Time Warner Merger
The conservative battle against cable continues.
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Nine days ago, the Conservative War Chest PAC set out to run TV ads in swing-state markets. They took the form of two-minute jeremiads against the political slant of some MSNBC hosts, ending with appeals to watchers (and voters) to call their affiliates and get them to oppose the proposed merger of Comcast (which owns NBCUniversal) and Time Warner Cable.
Nine days later, no station has taken the ads. It wasn't Plan A, but it'll do.