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By Staff on November 8, 2011

By Janie Amaya Capitol Ad Watch is back this week. The ads winner for Nov. 8 is the Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care, which placed four ads in the National Journal, National Journal Daily, Politico and The Examiner. The group’s ad message is largley aimed at urging lawmakers in…

Capitol Ad Watch

By Elianna Mintz on August 2, 2011

This edition’s winner: Lightsquared (5) Runner Ups: General Motors, T-Mobile and AT&T (4) August 1 and 2 showed a plethora of different ads sponsored by various companies among four of the biggest Capitol Hill newspapers. The majority of ads, however, came from the communication industries. The company with the most…

Capitol Ad Watch

By Staff on July 29, 2011

This edition’s Winner: Nuclear Energy Institute (4)Many Companies With 3 Ads For July 27th and July 29th, the Nuclear Energy Institute had the most advertisements among surveyed publications with four total ads.  The Nuclear Energy Institute, while always present, has never finished a survey period with the most ads.  Fellow…

Capitol Ad Watch

By Staff on July 19, 2011

By Phillip Bunnell This Week’s Winner: Freight Rail Works (8) Honorable Mention: US Chamber of Commerce (5) July 14 through the 18th, not counting the weekend, saw a concentrated burst in defense ads in the National Journal — many Freight Rail Works ads — and an increased presence from Economy…

Capitol Ad Watch

By Staff on June 30, 2011

This Week’s Winner: Light Squared with four adsRunnerup: AT&T and Corn Farmers Coalition with three ads each This week’s (6/27-6/30) advertisements saw yet another high yield for the communications industry, with Light Squared, Sprint and AT&T all having multiple ads in Capitol Hill publications. These message from these ads has…

Capitol Ad Watch: Monthly Roundup

By Staff on June 6, 2011

By Philip Bunnell Almost one month ago, Talk Radio News Service launched a new feature tracking advertisements in the large Capitol Hill publications, namely, Politico, The Hill, the National Journal, and the National Journal Daily. Today, we look at the compiled data for a month of ads and see how…

Capitol Ad Watch

By Staff on May 31, 2011

By Philip Bunnell This Week’s Winner: General Electric with 13 ads This Week’s Honorable Mention: The Defense Industry with 15 ads (6 from GE) Last week’s Capitol Hill publications saw a sharp rise in advertisements from the defense industry, with a blitzkrieg of public relations campaigns from Lockheed Martin, Sierra…

Capitol Ad Watch

By Staff on May 20, 2011

By Philip Bunnell This week’s winner: General Electric (10 ads)Runner up: Light Squared (7 ads) The energy industry dominated the pages of Capitol Hill’s top papers between May 13 through the 20th. Out of 130 advertisements surveyed from National Journal, National Journal Daily, Politico, Roll Call, and The Hill, 31 of…

Capitol Ad Watch

By Staff on May 16, 2011

By Philip Bunnell This week, Talk Radio News Service is launching a new weekly feature tracking advertisements in the large Capitol Hill publications, namely, Politico, The Hill, the National Journal, and the National Journal Daily. This Week’s Winner for Most Ads: The Sprint Network with four full page ads. Second…