Scripps Giving Free Airtime to Candidates

SCRIPPS GIVING FREE AIRTIME TO CANDIDATES
[SOURCE: tvnewsday]
The E.W. Scripps Co. is launching Democracy 2008, a public discourse initiative that will make free airtime available to political candidates on the company’s nine network-affiliated television stations. They are: ABC affiliates WXYZ Detroit; WCPO Cincinnati; WEWS Cleveland; WFTS Tampa, Fla.; WMAR Baltimore; and KNXV Phoenix; and NBC affiliates WPTV West Palm Beach, Fla.; KSHB Kansas City, Mo.; and KJRH Tulsa, Okla. The Scripps stations will provide five minutes of free airtime to candidates nightly between 5 p.m. and 11:35 p.m. in the 30 days preceding the general elections. The stations also will provide free airtime as needed during the 30 days preceding primary elections. The Scripps television station had a similar free airtime policy during the national elections in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.
http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2008/02/27/daily.6/