Analyst: Political Ads on TV Stations Top $1 Billion

Television advertising up 26% in September

It doesn't take a pollster to see that political spending on local TV has already begun to accelerate as Election Day nears. By the end of September, political spending in local TV (expected to get more than 54 percent of all political ad spending) topped $1 billion to $1.15 billion, according to a Wells Fargo analysis of data from Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group.

Spending for September climbed 26 percent from August to $304.6 million and doubled the $141.9

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