I'm Curious... Why Is CNN Advertising The Situation Room On MSNBC??

[ChiciB1]

What's the connection?? Several times in the last 3 days I thought I had the wrong channel on, but NO, MSNBC is running an ad for "The Situation Room!"

Are they doing it just so we'll pay attention??? I'm confused!

[arcos]

1. The Situation Room or The Situation? nt

[ChiciB1]

6. CNN's Situation Room

I thought they competed for ratings! It's not the show with Tucker Carlson... It's Wolfie!

[MissB]

2. I see advertisements for Faux shows on CNN and MSNBC

quite frequently. :shrug: They probably don't care where the advertising dollars come from.

[TimeToGo]

3. These are usually cable ads. n/t

[YDogg]

5. That's my guess - local cable ads.

Other than that, I got nuthin'.

[ovidsen]

4. Local avails?

I'm just guessing... but cable channels give time/space to local cable systems to sell spots for your local plumber, pizza place, etc. If the space isn't sold, promos for cable shows often run. Some local traffic manager may not care that promos for one channel are running on another.

[liveoaktx]

7. I've got Dish and saw it-not a local channel

[ovidsen]

8. So much for that theory...

Unless satellite TV services also have avails on Fox, CNN or MSNBC that they can sell, or plug promos into, and they don't care what promos run where either.

All I can say is that I don't see these cross promos on my cable system, and I switch between the news channels and C-SPAN pretty regularly.

But maybe I'm just missing them.