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"Comcast reserves a certain fraction of advertising time for local ads on myriad of the stations it carries. Not just local news which reaches a limited audience. Have you never seen an ad for some car dealership in your area while watching, oh, say, The Weather Channel?"
I understand that, Mom. But if a television station which is also carried by Comcast or any other cable provider accepts and runs this ad, would not Comcast be obligated to run that ad as a part of its rebroadcast of that particular station? Unless they used their "reserved" advertising time to replace the offending ad, wouldn't the ad still be carried by Comcast as a part of their rebroadcasting of the local station's programming?
Even if the ad does make it through Comcast's refusal to run the ad directly as part of their "reserved" time, the customers of Comcast should still be able to view the commercial via local channel access.
If that's not the case, I'd like someone to tell me how Comcast can refuse to "air" the ads as provided by one or more of their local channel lineup.
