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Networks May LIMIT Convention Coverage

politico.com — Major television networks are considering curtailing coverage of the Democratic National Convention due to "budget concerns"?

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  • Ridgeliner7, on 07/09/2008, -2/+2
    "Network executives expect Obama’s relatively late-breaking decision to speak at Invesco Field at Mile High, a 76,000-seat football stadium, could add hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs to already cash-strapped news divisions. Each network has budgeted millions to cover the political conventions, but that spending is already accounted for in specific costs ranging from hotel rooms to staffing to building convention platforms.

    For most networks, any additional outlays for the convention would come out of their 2008 campaign budget.

    Obama’s decision “makes it enormously more expensive,” said Paul Friedman, senior vice president at CBS News. “It does add to the overall question of how the networks should cover what is a non-news event.”
  • thirdcoastborn, on 07/09/2008, -1/+3they'd have more money if they would quit reporting celebrity news all the ***** time.
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