Lawmakers took steps toward regulating advertising on television and on the Internet yesterday.
On Thursday, the House passed a bill to prevent advertisers from jacking up the volume in commercials, reports the AP. Within one year the FCC will have to develop standards to match advertiser’s volume and regular progamming volume. The regulations will Read More
Kirsten Gillibrand is out with a new ad today touting her support for military veterans and pointing to her record in Congress to cut vets’ taxes and increase their benefits.
The ad is very much a general election spot, one which is designed to appeal to Republican leaning men. In the piece, Gillibrand is seen Read More
Congressman Mike McMahon is back on the air with another commercial that attempt to make his re-election campaign about local, rather than national, issues.
The thirty-second piece is called “First Priority,” and is about a major priority for many in McMahon’s home base of Staten Island–getting around an area that is choked by too much Read More
Congressman Mike McMahon has quietly posted to his Facebook page his first television ad of the campaign season. Called “Who Cares,” the ad gives the full Staten Island–McMahon leaning out over the ferry, clips from the Staten Island Advance, footage of Fresh Kills landfill and Ground Zero (where many many Staten Islanders died on 9/11.) Read More
The Schumer for Senate campaign sends along New York’s senior senator’s first ad of the 2010 campaign. The campaign says that the ad will play in multiple markets, including in NYC. The piece comes with some choice shots of Schumer as a young man. Script and video below:
CHUCK:
My parents always Read More
Rick Lazio rolled out a new ad this morning, attacking Andrew Cuomo as the personification of Albany, in an attempt to broaden his focus from what has been a mosque-centric campaign over the past few weeks. (Drawing rebukes from the Times and the Post, among others.)
It’s the first ad from Lazio’s Read More
Fresh on the heels of new advertising campaigns by Democratic attorney general rivals Kathleen Rice and Sean Coffey, Eric Schneiderman is out today with his first television ad. A campaign spokesman says they have not yet determined where this ad will run, how often, and if it will be shown on broadcast or Read More
Coming on the heels of Kathleen Rice’s major TV ad buy announcement last night, her opponent for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, Sean Coffey, is out with his own ad this morning.
The 30-second spot, called “Justice,” will run statewide on network and cable TV through the Sept. 14 primary, according to campaign Read More
Kathleen Rice is up on the air with the first network television ad of the 2010 attorney general’s campaign.
The 30-second ad, called “No Pushover,” highlights Rice’s claim that she is both a progressive and tough on crime, which could be a difficult needle to thread as AG candidates like Richard Brodsky and Eric Schneiderman Read More
