Citadel Renews Free Political Time Commitment

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Citadel Communications said Monday it will again set aside
five-minute blocks of free airtime to candidates to introduce themselves and
make their case to the voters.

The stations providing the time are WOI-TV Des Moines;
WHBF-TV Quad Cities; KCAU-TV Sioux City; KLKN-TV Lincoln, Neb.; and WLNE-TV
Providence, R.I./New Bedford, Mass.

It is the eighth year in a row the station group owner has
offered free time to candidates.

Citadel has also pledged to air "get out the vote"
PSAs, provide at least five minutes per day of election coverage across those
same stations, and several of the stations are teaming with the Sioux city
Journal and cable operator Mediacom to sponsor and produce an Oct. 9
congressional debate.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.