Thanks to digital technology developed recently for commercial advertisers, advertising intelligence is moving into politics.

The basic rate is based on the price stations charge their most favored commercial advertisers.

It asked commercial advertisers to sign a testimonial against the need for a new newspaper.

Many commercial advertisers use this form of mass media when advertising in sports stadiums.

The commercial advertisers, they said, would focus on the broad, thematic commercials that may take weeks to produce.

Federal law requires that candidates get lower rates than commercial advertisers, but even this preferential rate is rising in the last weeks of the campaign.

CBS was able to make the cost of commercial advertisers up to $600,000 during the season finale.

In September the commission issued a report saying that at almost all the television stations, political candidates paid far more than commercial advertisers for advertising.

The regulations also require the stations to sell this time to candidates at the lowest rates paid by commercial advertisers.

"The Sopranos" attracted about 8.5 million viewers in that group, which is most favored by commercial advertisers.