The equal-time rule specifies that U.S. radio and television broadcast stations must provide an equivalent opportunity to any opposing political candidates who request it.

He also argues that the networks violated the equal-time rule by not letting him buy 45-minute slots immediately after the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates set for next month.

PEROT: Is there an equal-time rule here tonight?

Political advertising and most direct forms of issue-related advertising are usually not aired during the Super Bowl due to equal-time rules or other factors.

The federal equal-time rule has little force these days, but the principle behind it remains sound: broadcast television should not use its tremendous influence for partisan purposes in an election.

If he did enter the race, he would create a complication under the Federal Communications Commission's equal-time rule.

An Independent, he first appeared on Weekend Update under the equal-time rule when John McCain hosted on October 19, 2002.

Hispanics, Asians, women, Mormons, Pentecostals and just about everybody else get some discussion in a historical application of the equal-time rule.

A forerunner of the "equal-time rule" was stated in section (18) of the Radio Act of 1927 which ordered stations to give equal opportunities for political candidates.

It is not such a great leap from "Democrat wars" to the crackpot assertion that Ms. Couric was violating equal-time rules by asking about his exoneration of nicotine.