ABC Airing Pushing Daisies Instead Of Obama Ad

ABC will air Pushing Daisies in its usual time period on Wednesday night instead of the Barack Obama ad. The Obama campaign bought a half hour of airtime on NBC, Fox and CBS on October 9, spending about $1 million per network. ABC was absent from the list and the network remained silent about its programming intentions. With ratings for Pushing Daisies slipping, some have wondered whether the network would air the show as usual, also air the Obama ad, or run something else entirely. ABC reportedly offered the airtime, but the Obama campaign, for whatever reason, declined to buy an ad.