• The Washington Post, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:58 PM

Confonted with a bounty of political advertising demand -- more than they have inventory to accommodate -- Washington, DC, TV stations are boosting their clutter levels by trimming back conventional programming and adding news content to squeeze in extra political spots.

"Washington’s TV stations are the beneficiaries of a record amount of political advertising this fall," reports hometown paper The Washington Post. "During a one-month period that ended Friday, the stations collected $58.6 million from political advertisers, a sixfold increase from the $9.8 million spent on political issues in the same period in 2008, according to an estimate by Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG), a tracking firm."

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