The Obama channel

Channel 73 on the Dish Network is now The Obama Channel.

Obama's media buying strategy has been marked by a willingness to work the angles, and to try to pick up a few votes at the margins. The decision to go to everything from extensive radio buys to odd-hour infomercials reflects the fact that the campaign media buyers spend a lot of time thinking about how much persuasion any given dollar can buy, and given a very cheap format -- late night cable channels that need filler, for instance -- will settle for a thimblefull of persuasion.

The satellite channel is the latest of these marginal gambits: Three readers from different parts of the country email that Channel 073-00 on the Dish Network is now labeled OBAMA. ("What is up with Sen. Obama having his own channel?" asks a St. Louis reader.) The channel plays his two-minute ad laying out his economic plan on a loop, over and over.

The only explanation: The media buyers think they can reach enough people per dollar to make it worth the odd buy.

The channel's appearance has provoked scorn and alarm on conservative blogs, though, and some discussion on a forum for Satellite TV aficionados, where one user writes that a Dish Network executive emailed to reassure the user that it "is paid advertising by the Obama campaign and is not an endorsement of Senator Obama by DISH Network" and will broadcast through November 4.

Dish Network spokesman Parker McConachie confirmed the forum account, and stressed that the channel is paid advertising, and not a corporate endorsement.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/The_Obama_channel.html

CNN and MSNBC was not enough.....

CNN is the most neutral station.

Huh?

You got a better one?

CNN is far from neutral....although it may be more so than most. It has big tendencies to lean to the left. Not to mention they are trying like hell to convince people to vote for this retarded bill to bail out wallstreet.

But...they try. Have you found a more neutral station?

now I have a new channel to make fun off

Do you mean Channel 73?

But I have to watch it on a bad old TV.... I don't want to throw crap at my Good TV when Obama is on

You bad.

Duh, I am not going to make fun of the McCain Fox channel

I didn't know if you meant CNN.

Sheesh...who wants to watch any political info-mercial all day.

Obamadrones like Cindy Sheehan do

Not really when it comes the news...

That's the most unbiased that I have found too. I'm open to hear about other unbiased stations though.