{"id":2900,"date":"2012-05-23T14:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2012-05-23T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:39:17","slug":"campaigns-issue-groups-spend-millions-on-orlando-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/campaigns-issue-groups-spend-millions-on-orlando-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigns, issue groups spend millions on Orlando TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret to anyone who watches TV in Central Florida: More than five months before Election Day, the region is awash in an unprecedented \u2013 and expensive &#8212; flood of political commercials.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigns, political action committees and organizations with political agendas have spent more than $4.5 million in broadcast TV and cable commercials just since April 30, an Orlando Sentinel review of public records has found. That has bought more than 2,400 commercials on Orlando&#8217;s broadcast stations, plus more on cable TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That seems like an astonishing amount of\u00a0<a id=\"itxthook0\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.orlandosentinel.com\/2012-05-18\/news\/os-political-tv-20120518_1_priorities-usa-tv-ads-crossroads-gps#\">money<\/a> this early in the campaign,&#8221; said <strong>University of Central Florida political scientist Aubrey Jewett.<\/strong> &#8220;Typically you wouldn&#8217;t see ad buys like that until right after the [national party] conventions&#8221; in early September.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the advertising is fueled by so-called &#8220;super PACs&#8221; \u2013 which can raise unlimited amounts to advertise in support of a candidate \u2013 and advocacy groups funded by corporate contributions allowed under a recent\u00a0U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0decision. But the biggest single spender \u2013 more than $2 million this month \u2013 is the campaign to re-elect President\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/PEPLT007408.topic\">Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.orlandosentinel.com\/2012-05-18\/news\/os-political-tv-20120518_1_priorities-usa-tv-ads-crossroads-gps\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret to anyone who watches TV in Central Florida: More than five months before Election Day, the region is awash in an unprecedented \u2013 and expensive &#8212; flood of political commercials. 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