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Best coverage of mid-terms

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searadiofreak

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OK, I was waiting for someone to start this thread...who had the best coverage of the mid-term elections tonight? I know it isn't over, but by now, the big 3 have offered their product...who is most compelling, who have the best graphics, and who is just telling the story the best?

My vote is CNN, although the mass commentary is getting a little tiring. I like their "virtual" graphic walls, though.
 
CNN. I gave up on MSNBC when Maddow and Olbermann decided to go off on Rand Paul, saying he might single-handedly send the entire world into an economic disaster. Other than the commentary, MSNBC's coverage was good. FOX News was pretty good as well, but I didn't watch them for long. Didn't watch ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX at all.
 
NBC, CBS (both did updated broadcasts for the West Coast) and CNN had the best overall coverage as always.

ABC? Who cares!
 
As I was channel surfing, I found the BBC World News coverage of this election on PBS. I thought it was odd seeing British people covering an American mid-term election. Also, Ted Koppel was there. I had no idea he was working with them now.

I really didn't stay on one channel long enough besides PBS to see who had the best coverage.
 
ABC's desk-sharing thing with Diane Sawyer and George Stepha ... Stephanop ... with George, was quite awkward. CNN had solid coverage.
 
I don't have cable :-[ But as far as the "Big Three" are concerned, NBC was head and shoulders above CBS and ABC. Better coverage, better analysis, better overall presentation. I didn't include FOX (the entertainment network); I don't think they had any coverage.
 
whitfm said:
ABC's desk-sharing thing with Diane Sawyer and George Stepha ... Stephanop ... with George, was quite awkward. CNN had solid coverage.
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When he was working in the Clinton White house, a conservative Bay Area radio talk host (Jim Eason) referred to him as George Stephan-awful-stuff.
 
Al Timiter said:
I don't have cable :-[ But as far as the "Big Three" are concerned, NBC was head and shoulders above CBS and ABC. Better coverage, better analysis, better overall presentation. I didn't include FOX (the entertainment network); I don't think they had any coverage.
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Fox's lineup was very odd: (times AZ)

6pm Fox national coverage
7pm Glee (what in the world!?)
8pm Fox 10 local coverage (continued through their 9pm and 10pm news)

I should have tried to catch the BBC coverage. Personally I much prefer the BBC's news output to other organizations.
 
For your information Fox had over 7 million viewers. MSNBC had a measley 1.5 million. I guess we know who won that battle.
 
Don't know who was the best since I didn't get a chance to watch all of them. CNN was good, fox was surprisingly good too. Worst however had to be MSNBC. People talk about Fox's right wing bias, but for hard news they atleast have journalists anchoring. MSNBC decided to have their nightly mouth pieces do election coverage together. It was a said joke as they forecasted doom, but at the same time tried to play off the GOP pick ups as not that big. When Rand Paul was declared the winner, they all went on about how he is singlehandly gonna bring the entire world into a great depression. When Harry Reid was declared the winner Rachel Maddow went on some sort of rant about how the GOP actually lost (the overall election), because Reid was the guy they wanted to beat more then anyother, and it showed a collapse on the republican side.

Stuff like that was said back and forth all night. I think I actually watched MSNBC the most because of how bad its coverage was. Imagine if FOX had Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, & Glenn Beck anchoring their coverage. The blogs would be on fire about how blatantly biased they're.
 
Didn't watch any of 'em. I did my duty and voted, and then watched local coverage at 9pm. I looked at the internet the next day. Since it wasn't a Presidential election, I wasn't going to waste my time listening to the bloviators do their thing.

But I saw on NewsBusters the Chris Matthews interview with Minn. GOP Rep. Michelle Bachmann, where he asked her if she had been "hypnotized" and she responded by asking him how the "thrill" up his leg was doing. Priceless, but I wouldn't have wanted to sit through hours of Bathtub Boy, Madcow, and Tingles to see it.
 
I watched about 15 minutes of Fox's coverage and it was awful. PBS had good coverage during the NewsHour. BTW I am right of center.
 
flytrap said:
...Fox (News Channel) had over 7 million viewers. MSNBC had a measley 1.5 million. I guess we know who won that battle.
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Not exactly a surprise. Especially since nearly 4+M of the Fox Audience was 55+. Old white scared voters tune in, lock in, and doze off, clickers in hand.

Fox did nearly triple its regular 25-54 demo, peaking at 2.6M when all time zones are in primetime (10PM ET 7PMPT). MSNBC could only muster 600,000 in the 25-54 range, which I think is roughly 5X their nightly viewing.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/the-scoreboard-tuesday-november-2_b38240#more-38240

I was without cable access on Election Night, so stuck with the broadcast coverage. NBC was clearly the leader in coverage, staying live until 1230AM PT. I tend to like CBS, but their coverage was pretty miserable. The one time I switched to Network FOX, Chris Wallace was waving a white board. Huh? Is it 2000?

Most network affiliates probably hijacked most of the coverage to show local speeches/results. Even little po-dunk Media Market #195 bored us to death with an hour of reading AP-wire copy and showing months-old B-roll from 1055PM-1155PM PT.
 
The channel lineup

KRMA 6 (PBS)
KMGH 7 (ABC)
KUSA 9 (NBC)
KTVD 20 (MyNetwork TV)
KDVR 31 (FOX)

In Denver, the coverage was like this

7:00-9:00 PM

6) Vote 2010 (Co-Produced along with by KMGH 7 who also had NewsChannel 247 on Comcast Channel 247 on cable)
12) Campaign 2010 (Co-Produced along with by KCNC 4)
20) Decision 2010 (Produced by KUSA 9)
31) Local coverage (Starting at 8:00 PM, airing NO FOX coverage at all)

9:00 PM

7) Vote 2010 (Moved over from KRMA 6)

By 10:00 PM, 4, 7, 9 & 31 were all providing coverage on their primary channels & continued into the wee hours in the morning when it became all to obvious the Bennet/Buck Senate Race was not going to be settled that night.

Not sure if KWGN 2 provided any coverage during its 7:00 PM news (I doubt it since that's when the polling places had just closed & they would've been in simulcast with KDVR 31 through much of the night instead of going to CW Primetime at 8:00 PM like they usually do nowadays) I was watching C-SPAN at this time (They too had interesting coverage)

In short, I think we saw where each of the four news operations would turn to as a backup if in the event the stations here had a massive transmitter failure like what happened in New York on 9/11.

As an aside, I peeked in on FOX Business Network & saw Neil Cavuto anchoring the coverage there. Is it just me or did he sound like he either had a cold or was about to lose his voice in the wee hours of the morning?

Cheers :D
 
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