Belo Corp. announced that its stations provided free airtime to 151 congressional and gubernatorial candidates across the U.S. during the 2010 election season through the Company's "It's Your Time"
program. In addition, Belo said it broadcast more than 162 hours of political coverage on its 15 news-producing television stations in the seven weeks leading up to Election Day.
From
Sept. 19 to Nov. 1, Belo said its television stations aired an average of 72 local and national election-related stories each week. The coverage included 14 debates. Belo rebroadcast an average of 144
stories weekly on the company's six regional and local cable news channels. The company also streamed and archived election-related stories and the debates on its 20 station Web sites through Election
Day.
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