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Seeing triple

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

It’s not uncommon to see the same stories on all three network newscasts, even at the same time.

But last night was rather strange — the same person in the same room at the exact same time — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama being interviewed by Brian Williams, Charles Gibson and Katie Couric.

The screen grabs that follow were all taken with 10 seconds of 6:32 p.m. eastern time. By the way, NBC’s interview with Obama ran slightly longer than ABC and CBS.

Charlotte station uses Twitter to cover election

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Raleigh’s Belo-owned WCNC-TV set up reports with Twitter accounts and then feed all that data into one interface on its Web site, which allowed viewers to read a behind-the-scenes look at covering an election in an uncensored forum. Station execs say the trial run of the was successful.

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N.C., Indiana primaries bring tweaks at MSNBC

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

MSNBC has tweaked its election lower third for tonight’s coverage of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries.

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Checking out ‘America’s Election HQ’

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

We also checked in with Fox News Channel, which is using its recently-installed RP-heavy set. Combined with the circular anchor desk, this set does a good job of accommodating Fox’s panel of experts without the “temporary” feel of MSNBC and CNN’s panel anchor desks. Plus, the large scrolling text on the RP is a great, eye-catching feature that also reflects off the shiny surface of the table surface.

Quick peak: CNN

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Here’s a quick look at CNN’s Tuesday night election coverage…

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