47. Except when they deem the ads "inappropriate" or some other such excuse...
The "reality", as has been thrown around a lot in this thread, is that equal time rules are SELECTIVELY litigated by the stations - depending on the political viewpoint of the person/group applying for the equal time. I must have missed all the free time they gave Arnold Schwarzenneger's 200 opponents in his first run for governor. That must have been a hell of a lot of free air time.
This rule has been corrupted/bent as much as any other part of participatory democracy in this country these days.
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