From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage –

UPDATE -- The Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault says its ad featuring Gov. Sean Parnell won't be aired anymore, but not because of Ralph Samuels' objections.

It was a decision made before Samuels raised his objection, according to the group's director, and was based on its other ads being more effective.

The Samuels campaign for governor is calling for a stop to the advertisement, arguing that the ads are political promotion of Parnell by a group that gets state and federal grants.The ad features Parnell talking about domestic abuse.

Samuels’ campaign manager, Suzanne Armstrong, sent the Parnell campaign a letter Friday saying the Samuels campaign made inquiries with KTUU Channel 2 about the ad, then learned after doing so that it was being pulled from the station. The Samuels campaign said the ad had "been removed from future airing at KTUU television in Anchorage after the Samuels campaign questioned their appropriateness.”

Samuels spokesman Willis Lyford said he saw firsthand the ad being removed from the KTUU schedule Friday after the Samuels campaign raised its objection, and that it must have been on orders of the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. But Lyford said he was told it was still airing on at least one cable channel as of this weekend.

Northern Lights Media Sales Director Andrew MacLeod says KTUU wouldn't pull the ad on its own, although the advertiser obviously can do so.

“After checking with the FCC’s political advertising enforcement division, we advised the Samuels’ campaign that while the ad constituted a use of the airwaves available to all legally qualified candidates, the use was not free but a paid schedule. As such, the Samuels’ campaign had the same access to the quality and quantity of airtime used, at the same rate, as did other gubernatorial campaigns and no action would be taken by the station,” MacLeod said in an email.