• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Donald Trumps TV attack ads spending

Ideology aside, the point is if he loses the election he will simply not have an audience for a television program. He will just go away as far as people are concerned.
 
Last edited:
But Trump will still probably be around to stir up trouble in some form. I just hope that in 2020 the Republican party has the sense to stop him from hijacking the election like he did this year.
 
landtuna said:
This was also Bill Mahar's opinion on a recent interview.
Click to expand...

No - don't think so. If Trump's defeat ends up being as humiliating as the polls are indicating, he will have no credibility with the Republican Party, or with the electorate, beyond his base of rabid supporters. It's also going to be hard to claim the election was "rigged" if it's a landslide. By comparison - it has been rumored for 50 years + now that the 1960 election was rigged for Kennedy and against Nixon - possibly by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley who made sure "dead people" voted for Kennedy. But that election was the closest of the 20th century, unless you insist that Bush/Gore 2000 was still the 20th century.

The best Trump can hope for is to form some kind of Trump Network on cable to keep his political aspirations in public view, but its hard to imagine that he will get many investors if he loses badly. Again - there is already a conservative news network - Fox News.

Most likely outcome- Donald makes some noise, then quietly returns to being just another (alleged) billionaire real estate mogul.
 
LKellerIII said:
If Trump's defeat ends up being as humiliating as the polls are indicating, he will have no credibility with the Republican Party
Click to expand...

That's actually the situation now, which is partly why he isn't getting party support in advertising or elsewhere. I believe it will continue long after the election, just as his various personal feuds have continued. He's a publicity hound. He's always been a publicity hound. That won't end.
 
RadioPatrol said:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-tv-venture_us_5804d13fe4b0e8c198a8f3cb

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/politics/donald-trump-tv-jared-kushner.html?_r=0

http://www.recode.net/2016/10/17/13307340/trump-tv-will-fail

Apparently there's a "Supposed Plan" to have a Trump TV Network but im not sure how a new network is going to fit in todays media landscape where Youtube, Amazon, Netflix, Crackle, Vimeo and dailymotion.
Click to expand...
are the new places to watch TV.

But as others have said hype for now.
 
TheBigA said:
FYI both of your examples are specifically aimed at local ballot initiatives, not candidates.
Click to expand...

Depending on what state you live in the superpacs and lobbyists who write in the state and municipal initiatives. Some of the ads will say this (Prop 61 is backed by Bernie Sanders) the proposition in California for pharmaceutical prices. In other words the people supporting ballot initiative will say a member of congress, state legislatures and or Board of Supervisors/city councils support or against a law to boost support on your side.
 
http://www.expressnews.com/news/loc...C-spends-big-in-Hurd-Gallego-race-9984409.php

Note Superpac ads are going to Congressional races in the state congress or national congress.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/gop-super-pac-doubles-2014-spending

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/clinton-senate-funding-229959

https://www.cpr.org/news/story/2016-political-advertising-lags-past-years Note actual political ads spending may vary where you live and how contested that congressional seat is.
 
LKellerIII said:
No - don't think so. If Trump's defeat ends up being as humiliating as the polls are indicating, he will have no credibility with the Republican Party, or with the electorate, beyond his base of rabid supporters. It's also going to be hard to claim the election was "rigged" if it's a landslide. By comparison - it has been rumored for 50 years + now that the 1960 election was rigged for Kennedy and against Nixon - possibly by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley who made sure "dead people" voted for Kennedy. But that election was the closest of the 20th century, unless you insist that Bush/Gore 2000 was still the 20th century.

The best Trump can hope for is to form some kind of Trump Network on cable to keep his political aspirations in public view, but its hard to imagine that he will get many investors if he loses badly. Again - there is already a conservative news network - Fox News.

Most likely outcome- Donald makes some noise, then quietly returns to being just another (alleged) billionaire real estate mogul.
Click to expand...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0NVk7VZEUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGKMXK_NYGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hjwj7GpyXw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0NVk7VZEUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBmhpiM7Udk

If Trump were to have his own supposed cable network he would have to run his talk shows like Wally George did. By the Way for those of you outside of Los Angeles If you are wondering who Wally George is? He's the talk show host that Trump has somehow manage to copy from the way Wally George Looks and his political rants. I cannot even prove a connection between Wally George and Trump or even Morton Downey Jr. Yet the Way Trump does his rants on Cable shows are like these two hosts.
 
Last edited:
Why buy TV ads when you can do your own TV show without being asked tough questions?

Answer: Because the only people who will watch this Facebook feed are already converted.

But he can rant all he wants, and if he makes news, it'll get reported by everyone else.
 
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/98835/political-turns-out-as-a-net-plus-for-meredith

Meredith released their statements on political revenue.

Widely-reported concerns about lower spending in the presidential contest have not been a factor for Meredith Corp., which anticipates making good on political guidance, key executives told analysts at a conference call regarding the group’s fiscal first quarter 2017 results. And while strong political spending put a damper on core results, the effect was largely limited to four markets.

Results for Meredith’s Local Media Group, where the company’s television assets reside, have never been better. Revenues of $153 million, operating profit of $51 million and EBITDA of $60 million represented respective gains of about 20%, 70% and 50%, and were all record-setting performances. Chairman-CEO Stephen M. Lacy said the Local Group’s $16 million political take was also record-setting and added that gains in retransmission consent income was also a key positive factor.
Click to expand...
 
I'm pleased to report there were a number of positive ads, and now that it's official, I hope he turns out to be like those ads said he was.
 
While President-elect Trump was successful with much less ad spending than his opponent and even Mitt Romney in 2012, I believe, I don't think this sets a precedent. He was unique in his ability to get the media to cover him almost non-stop giving him coverage without the cost.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom