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Media Blitz in Sunshine State

Media Monitors Releases Latest Spot Data

White Plains, NY (January 30, 2012) – Media Monitors released its study of radio spots that were run in Florida leading up to tomorrow’s Primary Election. Media Monitors captured data in Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach for Radio, Cable and TV. In addition to those markets, Ft. Myers’ data was also included for the Radio analysis. We pulled spot counts from January 1 to early morning January 30, 2012 for this survey.

As most people know, the field of Republican candidates has been narrowed to Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.

Radio Advertising

Looking just at RADIO spots that were run by the candidate’s campaigns, you can see that Mitt Romney ran 2,196 spots, while Newt Gingrich ran 492 spots. Rich Santorum and Ron Paul ran no radio spots in the Florida cities we surveyed. Obama For America did run 25 spots in the month of January, 2012.

TV Advertising

On TV, Mitt Romney’s campaign ran 4,930 spots against Newt Gingrich’s 638 spots. Again, there were no Ron Paul or Rick Santorum spots in this media

Cable Advertising

On Local Cable in the markets surveyed, Romney once again ran the lion’s share of Cable spots at 1,862, while Newt Gingrich only cleared 79 spots. Ron Paul did run 6 spots in January, while the Obama campaign ran 12 spots.

Now we get to the Super PACs and their impact on the campaigns. As you may be aware, Super PACs are not connected to the candidates and are free to buy as much time as they want to promote issues and candidates. Here is how they promoted themselves:

Super PAC Radio Ads

Restore Our Future is a Super PAC that to date has been pro-Romney. They ran 234 radio ads that attempted to denigrate Newt Gingrich. Winning Our Future is a Super PAC that helps promote Newt Gingrich or position anyone running against him negatively. They ran 1,537 Pro-Gingrich ads and 1,796 negative ads putting down Romney. SEIU is the Service Employees International Union and they ran 247 ads against Romney. The American Family Association ran 438 radio ads helping Newt Gingrich.

Super PAC TV Ads

On TV, the pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future ran 3,443 spots against Gingrich, while the Super PAC Winning Our Future pro-Gingrich ran 250 spots against Romney. The pro-Romney PAC Restore Our Future also ran 405 spots against Rick Santorum. The Super PAC AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) ran 412 TV spots against Romney.

Super PAC Cable Ads

On Local Cable, the PACs were very active. Restore Our Future ran 1,018 attack ads against Newt Gingrich, while Restore Our Future ran 147 spots against Rick Santorum. Winning Our Future only ran 40 pro-Gingrich spots on Cable in the last month and 61 spots against Mitt Romney. Super PAC for America ran 19 spots against Romney. The AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) ran 85 Cable spots against Romney.

And finally, the Republican National Committee ran 15 Cable spots against Obama.

We thought it would be interesting to combine the spot count data and break the media blitz down to show what the total impact of all the spots that ran on the two front-runners. If a Super Pac was anti-Romney, we aligned those counts with Newt Gingrich, and of course, if a spot was negative toward Newt, for this approach, we added those spots to Romney’s totals. We then added in the spots that were run by their campaigns. Here is what we found:

Impact of All Spots: Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney

On Radio, spots helping Newt Gingrich totaled 4,510, while spots helping Mitt Romney totaled 2,430. On TV, spots helping Gingrich totaled 1,300 while spots more positive for Romney added up to 8,778. On Local Cable, Newt spots totaled 284, while Mitt spots totaled 3,027 ads. The effect of all this will be revealed when they count the votes.

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Media Monitors is the nation’s leading network and local monitoring company, serving the media and advertising industries with near real-time intelligence on radio, television, cable, print and display internet. For radio, Media Monitors is the only provider of spot occurrence data in the US. Media Monitors is accredited by the MRC for its US radio, local network and cable television spot monitoring services. Outside the US, Media Monitors tracks a variety of media in major markets including Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, India, New Zealand, Malaysia and South Africa. Media Monitors holds multiple patents for its monitoring and data modeling technologies.

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