Post-Newsweek to Offer Free Airtime to Candidates

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Post-Newsweek said Wednesday it would again offer free
airtime to candidates and pledge a minimum amount of local political news
coverage.

The station group owner has six TV stations in key
battleground states -- Florida, Texas and Michigan.

The stations have, for several years, offered free air
and Web time to candidates in the 30 days before general elections. In
addition, each station will devote at least 10 minutes per day to locally
produced political news coverage.

Stations will also look for opportunities to televise
debates and town hall meetings and put get-out-the-vote spots at the front of
the line in their PSA rotations.

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.