These 10 TV Stations Alone Have Pulled in $132.9M in Presidential Campaign Ad Spending

The Ad Age Presidential Campaign Ad Scorecard is sponsored by The Trade Desk Editor's note: Here's the 19th installment of the 2016 Presidential Campaign Ad Scorecard. The chart below represents a collaboration between the Ad Age Datacenter -- specifically, Kevin Brown, Bradley Johnson and Catherine Wolf -- and Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG). Some context from Simon Dumenco follows. --Ken Wheaton • First of all, ICYMI: Last week in Campaign Scorecard we covered a sudden surge in pro-Trump PAC spending on traditional broadcast advertising, thanks to a FOD (Friend of Donald). Given this week's news about the sorry state of the Trump campaign's finances, we'll be watching closely in the weeks ahead to see if pro-Trump PAC spending can begin to narrow the gap between the Trump campaign and Hillary Clinton's much better-financed campaign. • Also ICYMI: My colleague Kate Kaye offers a closer look at Trump's campaign expenditures here and examines his new email fundraising strategy here. • Our interactive Campaign Scorecard charts, which are designed by Ad Age's Chen Wu, have typically looked like this. But this week we're taking a break from that format to deliver a special, straightforward breakdown of the real winners of the presidential race so far: the broadcast TV stations that have pulled in the most money from ads for presidential candidates. Because, despite all the hype about this year's campaign being a turning point for digital ad dollars, it's still a very good time to be a traditional broadcast media owner... in certain markets (until now, generally states with early, influential primaries or caucuses). • The money spent and/or booked on presidential campaign ads to date (from April 5, 2015 through Nov. 7, 2016 -- because we track advance bookings too) on just the 10 stations listed below adds up to $132.9 million. • In the weeks and months ahead, as the advertising action shifts to swing states, we'll be closely tracking a new set of political ad-dollar recipients.

These 10 TV Stations Alone Have Pulled in $132.9M in Presidential Campaign Ad Spending

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