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TV advertising deal-making could be pushed back amid coronavirus outbreak

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Jeanine Poggi
March 19, 2020 09:30 PM

The coronavirus outbreak is poised to upend the way TV ad dollars are negotiated this spring, pushing deal-making to later in the year, according to multiple network and agency executives.

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