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Obama's Olympic-size ad buy

Barack Obama's campaign is spending millions to advertise during broadcasts of the Olympics.

Advertising Age reports that Barack Obama's campaign "will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal's Olympics coverage." The campaign has agreed to a $5 million package that includes ads on network television and cable.

Ad Age's Ira Teinowitz calls the deal "the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years," and notes that "the last network TV spot bought by a presidential contender was apparently a single multi-minute ad run by Republican Sen. Bob Dole in 1996."

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