Nets Abandon Primary Coverage
22 April 2008
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Nets Abandon Primary Coverage
The major television networks have no plans to interrupt their regular programming
to present reports about results in today's (Tuesday) crucial primary election in
Pennsylvania. NBC plans to move Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and other
correspondents who have been covering the campaign to its cable outlet, MSNBC, for reports
on the voting. CBS and ABC, which operate no cable news outlets, are likely to run
a "crawl" at the bottom of the screen for updates. Fox, which airs no regular news
programming at all, will leave coverage of the primary voting in the hands of its sibling
Fox News Channel. Sam Roberts, chairman of the University of Miami's broadcast journalism
department and a former CBS producer, told the Miami Herald that political coverage
has become "strictly a cable event." Local stations in Pennsylvania are expected
to air brief live cut-ins throughout the night, but Corrie Harding, news director
of NBC affiliate WPXI-TV, vowed during an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazet
te, "We'll really try hard not to mess up people's Law & Order: SVU
experience."
22/04/2008
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