Granite Broadcasting Giving Candidates Free Airtime

GRANITE BROADCASTING GIVING CANDIDATES FREE AIRTIME
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: Alex Weprin]
Granite Broadcasting will continue its tradition of granting free airtime to qualified candidates for public office in the six weeks leading up to the presidential election. The program -- first established in 1998 for that year’s congressional elections -- is designed to “serve the public interest by facilitating an open and vigorous exchange of ideas.” Participating stations will give the candidates two minutes to respond to an issue of local or national importance and will make their production facilities available to them. The responses will be highly publicized on local news programs and will be available in full online.
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