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Campaign Coverage Statistics (Broadcasting & Cable)

I am embarrassed that the University of Wisconsin attached its name to the study performed by the UW-NewsLab regarding local television news coverage of campaign issues from Sept. 7 to Oct. 6 this year.

There is little use citing the statistics of the study�they look bad. They ignore morning and noon newscasts, and newscasts at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. (Central Time). It also didn�t count weekend public-affairs programming, free-time offers to candidates or debate co