I saw a Trump superpac commercial. No Hillary commercial.
Clinton postpones Weather Channel ads in Florida
Source: Politico
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said Thursday that it is asking cable systems in Florida not to run its advertisements on the Weather Channel with Hurricane Matthew bearing down on the state — after Republicans seized on the planned ads as opportunistic.
On Wednesday, POLITICO reported, as part of a larger cable-television buy in the battleground states, Clinton’s campaign had reserved airtime on the Weather Channel in a number of states, including $63,000 earmarked for Florida.
“Earlier in the week we made changes to our TV ad reservations across hundreds of stations in several battleground states including Florida,” Clinton campaign spokesman Jesse Ferguson said Thursday. “Less than 1 percent of those changes included the Weather Channel. We have requested that stations in Florida delay any of those ads on the Weather Channel until after the storm passes.”
Ratings for the Weather Channel typically spike during major events, and the potential for the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States in nearly 11 years should draw more eyeballs to the channel. Both Clinton and Donald Trump have advertised on the channel earlier in the campaign, during more normal weather episodes.
