If the media won't put RP on TV...we will!

[stljayhawk]

Here is just an idea I thought I'd throw out there into the Ron Paul world and see what feedback I get. I used to be the Paid Programming Coordinator at a TV station in St. Louis, MO. What is Paid Programming you ask? Well, usually it's those half hour infomercials. Religious groups buy paid programming as well as companies trying to "pitch their products". We've all watched them, and probably a lot of us have bought something from them.

Anyways, the rates to buy time for paid programming at my station in St. Louis were as follows:

Monday thru Friday 2 am or 2:30 am cost about $250
Saturday/Sunday Mornings cost about $2000

Those rates will buy you 28 minutes to put a pre-produced program on the air. We could easily edit together some of the best of the Youtube videos (when we get their permission) featuring Ron Paul, his record, his message, and his policies. The only thing we have to be careful of is copyrighted news clips...so we would have to go with things we can get the rights to. But, anyways, we could produce an infomercial length program about RP and his policies and start pooling money together to buy time in all of the major tv markets.

Just think if we bought a Sunday morning timeslot...right before or after This Week with George "you can't win" Stephanopolous.

Again, availability varies from station to station...and market to market...so do the rates. But, it is a relatively inexpensive way to put RP's message on TV...

We could also produce a thirty second spot and buy time. We could buy a tv ad package where we get the thirty second ad to run 20 times throughout the week for a couple thousand dollars total (it's called a rotator package, you don't buy a specific program or timeslot, they just put the ad in where they have room during the broadcast day), as well.

Just a thought.

Comments? Questions? Concerns?

 

[coboman]

Someone must take this idea seriously and run with it.

1) Ron Paul's ideas take time to explain and digest, 60 second TV spots are not useful here.
2) Infomercials can be seen by anyone with a TV.
3) It can include testimonials of people like you, with a great story to tell.
4) It can reach the people that currently know only about the candidates through MSM.
5) An infomercial can ask for contributions on the spot, making it easy to measure its effectiveness, and also help to make it pay for itself.
6) People can donate via telephone (which would reach a larger amount of people than the internet)

 

[Onyx]

Just put Ron Paul's speeches on TV, some of them are close to 30 minutes in length. Well worth $250 if you ask me!

 

[colecrowe]

THREAD AND POLL ALREADY GOING ON INFOMERCIAL:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=43186&highlight=infomercial

 

[penxv]

I think that infomercials are a good idea. And I think that between his speeches and all of the cool and original Ron Paul videos... an informative and entertaining infomercial could be made.

Plus... Billy Mays seems like a bit of a whore. I bet that we could get him.

He's good.

 

[colecrowe]

Billy Mays! You Must Be Joking....

That would do us in for sure. Not kidding.

I think that infomercials are a good idea. And I think that between his speeches and all of the cool and original Ron Paul videos... an informative and entertaining infomercial could be made.

Plus... Billy Mays seems like a bit of a whore. I bet that we could get him.

He's good.

 

[penxv]

Billy Mays can sell ice to an eskimo.

You've got to start thinking outside the box... because the box just effed Ron Paul in the poop hole.

If you don't like that... you are going to hate my idea of the Ron Paul campaign sponsoring MMA fighters.

Which would have to be one of the most cost effective ways to market Ron Paul in the midwest.

I don't think you fully appreciate how hard it can be to get through to people. We are on a race against the clock right now.