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Local Zimmerman Verdict TV Coverage

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Joseph_Gallant

Since there is no TV board for Orlando or Florida, I'm starting this thread here.

This past Saturday night (July 13th), just before 10 P.M. EDT, a verdict was announced in the trial of George Zimmerman.

I do know that several Orlando TV stations broadcast gavel-to-gavel coverage of the trial (as did HLN nationally), but can I assume that they remained on the air all night, and perhaps well into the day Sunday, with many hours of nonstop coverage of reactions to the verdict??

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Orlando TV stations continued nonstop coverage until the time their early-evening newscasts on Sunday went on the air. Given that it was the biggest news story in the history of the Orlando area, I suspect there may have been about twenty hours of continuous coverage Saturday night and Sunday and that such coverage was warranted.
 
Coverage for about an hour or so after the verdict. Interview w/O'Mara on WFTV Sunday morning public affairs program. Wrap up on evening news. One of them had an hour special on Sun. night.
 
It was still on Sunday night on some channels. I remember remarking that it is over, so why isn't it over?
 
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