MLB Moves For Obama

7:32 pm EST October 15th, 2008 | Media | 4 Comments

Roadblock

Major League Baseball has moved back the scheduled start time of game six of the World Series so Fox can join CBS and NBC in airing a half-hour Barack Obama advertisement on Oct. 29, network and league sources said.

A network spokeswoman confirmed the buy and said MLB had agreed to the network’s request for the delay.

Wonder how come they seem to have left ABC out in the cold?

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4 Responses to “MLB Moves For Obama”

  1. beemer says:
    October 15, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    Could it be The Path to 9/11? The Disney Corp has been pro-Republican for years.

  2. joe says:
    October 15, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    off topic, but I hope someone here can press michelle malkin to count john mcains “blinks” in the debate tonight. Just saying.

  3. Matt says:
    October 16, 2008 at 1:24 am

    ABC has three one-hour dramas on Wednesday night. Selling 30 mins of time requires taking Pushing Daisies off for a week and finding something else to fill the 8:30 PM EDT half-hour slot that can still compete with CBS’s comedies and the World Series.

    NBC only had to pre-empt Knight Ryder, and really, they probably would have paid either campaign to have an excuse to do that.

  4. Jon says:
    October 16, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    Oh come on, Matt! I mean, just because there are boring, structurally valid scheduling reasons for ABC not to be included, that’s no reason to not go conspiracy theory! Let’s see… maybe something like:

    I hear that ABC is missing out on a million dollars of Barack Obama’s campaign lucre because the Obama campaign is still pissed off over this:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041700013.html

    </sarcasm>

    Seriously, though – how long before the cable news media (and perhaps even ABC) starts asking the same question but feeding their viewers some fake “Obama is a spiteful, spiteful man” story? It’ll be the “fake equivalence” they’ve been looking for to counterbalance Sarah Palin’s neo-fascist refusal to hold a press conference.