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Election Coverage

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser...election_night_with_best_night_ever_99785.asp

ABC won the night, followed by CNN and NBC (yes, NBC was beaten by cable...they are screwed).
Fox News beat CBS and Fox Broadcasting. MSNBC beat Fox Broadcasting.

ABC, CBS, and NBC has their anchors hosting with panels (all in HD). NBC had Tom Brokaw join Brian Williams. CNN had their team, and used special visual effects to create a "capital" on a CNN set with rotating graphics that looked lifelike (it was controlled by a huge touch-screen on the wall). They also had guests joining via "hollogram", in which guests appeared like they were in CNN's New York studios when they were not.

MSNBC had David Gregory and Keith Olbermann anchoring, with Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow commenting, NBC and MSNBC has virtual sets for Ann Curry and Chuck Todd (on the Microsoft Surface).

BBC America had a simulcast of BBC World News, with Ted Koppel offering commentary. C-SPAN took calls and interviewed newspaper reporters, while C-SPAN2 simulcast the CBC from Canada, and C-SPAN3 simulcast CBS Radio.

PBS had Jim Leher and his staff. CNBC had their team (their coverage focused on the economy).

TV One and BET had their own coverage, obviously focused on Obama. Fixed Noise, Fixed Business, and Fixed Broadcast did their thing.
 
I think the fact that CNN beat NBC says a lot about cable's role in the TV business these days.

On another note, I was watching NBC during Obama's victory speech and the audio kept dropping out. It sounded like when they bring down the audio on live TV if someone curses. Not sure if it was my cable or a network-wide problem, but it wasn't good timing at all for that to happen.
 
radioguy555 said:
On another note, I was watching NBC during Obama's victory speech and the audio kept dropping out. It sounded like when they bring down the audio on live TV if someone curses. Not sure if it was my cable or a network-wide problem, but it wasn't good timing at all for that to happen.

I watched the speech on MSNBC and don't recall any audio or video issues. I'm assuming MSNBC and NBC used a common feed from Grant Park so the problem must have occurred on your local feed.
 
I watched several hours of Fox News and was annoyed by all the technical problems. The often graphics didn't show what the talent was talking about. I watched a few minutes of the CBS News webstream and was much more impressed ... didn't try any of the others. CNN.com didn't work all night long.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
I watched several hours of Fox News and was annoyed

Cut. Print. Quote of the year! ;D

PTBoardOp94 said:
CNN.com didn't work all night long.

I fired up CNN.com/live to watch the Obama speech, it took a good five minutes but it loaded.

jal41 said:
MSNBC had David Gregory and Keith Olbermann anchoring, with Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow commenting, NBC and MSNBC has virtual sets for Ann Curry and Chuck Todd (on the Microsoft Surface).

I thought that the partnership with Microsoft was no longer in effect - after all, how often these days are the acronyms of cable networks actually relevant? (MTV? CMT? Bueller?)

radioguy555 said:
I think the fact that CNN beat NBC says a lot about cable's role in the TV business these days.

I beg to differ... I think it was the prospect of seeing Paul Begala in HD that put CNN over the top! :eek:
 
When Fox News found out Obama won, I'm suprised the anchors didn't scream loudly NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! SOUND THE ALARM, WE ARE ALL DOOMED!
 
ABC's victory on Election night was a testament to their approach in covering the night. They had a more respectable approach to journalism that included conservative graphics, a bucking of the "in your face" attitude of cable and its analysis, and fair reporting on both sides with analysts that respected one another and allowed for lively, yet unbiased, analysis throughout the evening. NBC's loss, in large part, was an unfortunate result of the loss of Tim Russert. As we have all seen in the past few months, NBC/MSNBC has lost much of its direction after losing Russert. Perhaps some of Tuesday night's losers will take a note from ABC and Gibson.
 
I Can Handle the Truth

I watched ABC and gave Charlie & George high marks for their election night coverage. Personally I have no idea why Diane Sawyer was included in the broadcast, but hey I'm not in charge of ABC's news operation.

However over at CNN Wolf Blitzer and CNN's Vice President for News were boasting they had more viewers than any of the other cable or network news operations. So the question is, whose telling the truth here?

Does anyone have a breakdown of the overnight ratings to post so we can see who actually had more viewers?
 
jsu5381m said:
When Fox News found out Obama won, I'm suprised the anchors didn't scream loudly NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! SOUND THE ALARM, WE ARE ALL DOOMED!

All anyone has had to do to see that is to watch "Fox & Friends" after the election. The way those three, uh, hosts talk, you would think our country's been taken over by a foreign power.

The way Gretchen Carlson talks, she reminds me of old recordings of Axis Sally.
 
RicoGregg said:
jsu5381m said:
When Fox News found out Obama won, I'm suprised the anchors didn't scream loudly NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! SOUND THE ALARM, WE ARE ALL DOOMED!

All anyone has had to do to see that is to watch "Fox & Friends" after the election. The way those three, uh, hosts talk, you would think our country's been taken over by a foreign power.

The way Gretchen Carlson talks, she reminds me of old recordings of Axis Sally.

Keep beating that drum. The one network NOT dominated by liberal bias is the one that's bad. ::)

Personally, I found the absolute fawning of Obama and celebratory atmosphere presented on GMA, Today and the Early Show to range between annoying and nauseating. The local TV news here in Chicago was even worse with the outright celebration of the results. Almost as bad as Oprah.

When compared with all that, Fox news seemed to keep things on an even keel. That's where we fled by 7:05 am on Wednesday.
 
Fox may be the only place to go during the Obama administration; the rest will still be in awe and never ask a tough question.
 
jsu5381m said:
When Fox News found out Obama won, I'm suprised the anchors didn't scream loudly NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! SOUND THE ALARM, WE ARE ALL DOOMED!

Fox didn't do that, but I sure did.
 
On the network side, I thought NBC was the best, including their graphics. I mean, they were trying to maintain their election night quality left behind by Tim Russert. CBS was also good with their "low-key" approach, but ABC? They didn't impress me.

Cable? I was tuned to CNN mostly (never cared about Fox News); as for international coverage, CBC was a bit better than BBC because of Peter Mansbridge and the gang (except for Keith Boag and the "At Issue" panel).
 
I felt ABC was the best on the broadcast side, but the overall best coverage was Comedy Central's Indecision 2008. Colbert's spot-on channeling of the McCainiacs dismay at realizing the GOP was being thumped was priceless. ;D
 
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