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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by jandrese on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:08PM (#16065159)
Money being spent on advertising is a bit of a dubious figure coming from an advertising company. If Comcast is putting local ads on their cable channels saying "vote no", then quoting the retail price of those ad spots is going to inflate the figure. Sure they may be giving up some potential revenue, but the actual cost to the company is not what is quoted.
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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by breatheoften on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:16PM (#16065800)
I wonder if they get to claim a tax deduction for “donating” air time in this manner ...?
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Re:After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with... by jandrese on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:41PM (#16066066)
They would be donating it to themselves, so I hope not. One could maybe imagine a situation where they setup a super pac and have that organization spend the money on political advertising, but that seems so easy of a dodge that the IRS must have a way to detect it.
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