Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.misc From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Cable, Local TV Vie With Networks on Vote Results Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 06:47:12 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: Cable, Local TV Vie With Networks on Vote Results Publication Date: Tuesday November 3, 1992 BYLINE: STEVEN HERBERT Although ABC, CBS and NBC still figure to draw the overwhelming share of the audience, cable television networks will have more of an impact than ever before during coverage of today's election. Not only will four cable networks provide forms of coverage--doubling the two that did so in 1988--but elements of cable also will find their ways into the broadcasts of CBS and KCBS-TV Channel 2. Aping the interactive nature of Cable News Network's "Larry King Live" and other television phone-in shows, CBS' Dan Rather and his colleagues have a call-in segment planned between 9 and 11 p.m. This is the first time the network has included viewer comments in its presidential election coverage. KCBS, meanwhile, has added comedian Elayne Boosler to its election-night team, following the lead of Comedy Central, which has covered both major party national conventions and the vice presidential debate. Changing technology is also allowing local stations in on a traditional function of the networks. KABC-TV Channel 7 and KCAL-TV Channel 9 are both taking advantage of low-cost satellite feeds to dispatch reporters to the national campaign headquarters of President George Bush, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and (in KABC's case) Ross Perot. ABC, CBS and NBC will begin their coverage at 4 p.m. The first results of exit polls from the first states where the polls have closed--Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia--figure to come in a few minutes later. ABC, CBS, CNN and NBive programming at 1:30 p.m. with "Inside Politics '92." A special edition of "Larry King Live" follows at 2 p.m. "The World Today" gives an election preview at 3 p.m. Bernard Shaw and Catherine Crier will anchor the next six hours of coverage from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., with Patrick Greenlaw and Susan Rook handling the duties from 10 p.m.-2:30 a.m. KCET-TV Channel 28 will carry 4 1/2 hours of election-night programming from the Public Broadcasting Service and will produce 2 1/2 hours of its own. "The Finish Line," hosted by Hodding Carter and Ken Walker, airs from 5-8 p.m., followed by the "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour Special Election Report" from 8-9 p.m. An updated "MacNeil/Lehrer News-Hour Special Election Report" airs from 11-11:30 p.m. KCET and KCRW-FM (89.9) will simulcast "Life & Times California Election Night Special" from 9-11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.-midnight. Warren Olney, who hosts KCRW's "Which Way L.A.?" joins "Life & Times" regulars Patt Morrison, Hugh Hewitt and Ruben Martinez, for a panel discussion on the results. Various community leaders, reporters and Times Poll Director John Brennan will also comment. C-SPAN, cable's public-affairs network, starts its coverage at 3:30 p.m. with a 90-minute call-in program that will also include portions of local nightly newscasts from Dallas, Houston and Little Rock, Ark., the three cities serving as the hosts for the election-night headquarters of the major presidential candidates. From 5 p.m. to midnight, C-SPAN will devote the first 15 minutes of each hour to reporting on the presidential race, with the remainder of the hour devoted to the so-called battleground states in the presidential election and key U.S. Senate races. Stations in Denver, Sacramento, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia and Portland will share their coverage with C-SPAN. Susan Swain will anchor the presidential coverage with Brian Lamb handling the individual states and the Senate. Comedy Central is devoting five hours to election coverage. Political satirist Will Durst and comedian Bill Maher host an hourlong edition of "Short Attention Span T This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM