Primary Coverage

[Showjack]

KDWN - Roy Masters, no coverage, Embarrasing

KNEWS - Nothing, again, Embarrasing

KLAV - Nothing, again, Embarrasing

KDOX - Regular syndicated shows (Rusty Humphries, Hugh Hewit), But JD Wells gave updates during local commercial breaks

KXNT - The Evening host Casey Henderson was on all night with KXNT reporters and primary candidates. By far the best local coverage.

What will happen in November?

 

[LVRadioFan]

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I believe KXNT's evening host is Casey Hendrickson, not Casey Henderson. And Knews was using a simulcast of Fox 5 and KLVX for their election coverage all night long. Were you even listening? Embarrasing.

I think KDOX actually had the best idea for coverage, with cut-ins during local spot breaks. It's a closed primary... We don't need 4 hours of "Call in and tell me who you voted for," and we don't need a TV simulcast. Regular updates are just fine. Why blow off your programming for something that only a fraction of registered voters even cared about?

 

[MusicMaestro]

KDWN - Roy Masters, no coverage, Embarrasing

KNEWS - Nothing, again, Embarrasing

KLAV - Nothing, again, Embarrasing

KDOX - Regular syndicated shows (Rusty Humphries, Hugh Hewit), But JD Wells gave updates during local commercial breaks

KXNT - The Evening host Casey Henderson was on all night with KXNT reporters and primary candidates. By far the best local coverage.

What will happen in November?

Here is a possible solution to this: See if you can contact the station(s) program director, & ask them why their coverage was lacking, & what do they plan for November? Get straight answers if possible, & let him/her know that serving the community should be their focus on Election Day, not running syndicated programming! And that as a listener you expect better election coverage from a local NEWS STATION or that you will take your valuable listenership TO ANOTHER STATION that does!

 

[Jay F]

It was the day after the election, but I thought Tru Hawkins on KDWN had an excellent analysis of the results. He said there were no surprises at all, the good ol' boys (or who they endorse) all won, all the big tax and spenders won and none of the candidates who came from outside of the establishment won.

The only thing I disagreed with Tru about is his disgust that there was only a 31% voter turnout. Why bother voting when you know in advance who's going to win? I could have went up and down the ballot and correctly guessed the results of every race. I would also argue that if the 69% who didn't vote did make it out to the polls, they would be even more likely to vote for status quo establishment candidates and those with the highest name recognition.

Besides that minor point about voter turnout,, I agreed with everything Tru was saying and I appreciated the passion he has. I was in awe that there is actually another person who sees things the way I do. Then it hit me, especially because he was talking about his move to Texas, I feel sad that Tru Hawkins, a longtime fixture of Las Vegas radio, will be leaving and never heard again.

 

[LVRadioFan]

Here is a possible solution to this: See if you can contact the station(s) program director, & ask them why their coverage was lacking, & what do they plan for November? Get straight answers if possible, & let him/her know that serving the community should be their focus on Election Day, not running syndicated programming! And that as a listener you expect better election coverage from a local NEWS STATION or that you will take your valuable listenership TO ANOTHER STATION that does!

I still fail to see the major crime here. We've established that KXNT, KNEWS, KDOX, and KDWN all had various degrees of election coverage. Not every station on the dial needs to do a night full of "who did you vote for" talk or continuous updates on the race for Public Administrator. In a primary election the public does not need to know which candidate is leading the race 15 minutes after the polls close. Hell, they don't even need to know at 10pm that night! Local news updates or periodic cut-ins work just fine.

For the small percentage of political junkies out there who want up to the minute info on the Board of Regent district E race, there's the election department website or television crawls.