Election Day Coverage
Colleen Shalby
Hi Everyone,
Tomorrow we’ll be switching over our homepage at 8 am for our Election coverage. It includes a live stream of 6 different channels (including 2 hatcams) and a live blog including bloggers from over 25 member stations (from Juno, Alaska to the Virgin Islands). Here’s the full rundown:
6-channelled live stream:
Main Channel: Tuesday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.: In-studio interviews with NewsHour political editor Christina Bellantoni and various experts, political insiders including White House videographer Arun Chaudhary on what it’s like on Election Day for the President and his close circle. Also discussions with NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan and election night anchors Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff.
6 – 7 p.m.: Newshour show
7 – midnight to 3 a.m. (depending on the state of the race): NewsHour Election Special
After the show: Hari and Christina will be on camera to answer Twitter questions and discuss the aftermath.
Live Studio Camera: Tuesday 6 p.m. – end of broadcast: Live shot inside the NewsHour election studio showing all the behind the scenes action
Hatcam 1 and Hatcam 2: Tuesday evening: Two channels live from DC area Obama and Romney HQs
Speech channel: Tuesday 7 p.m. until speeches are over: Replays of election speeches
Closed Caption stream: Tuesday 6 p.m. – end of broadcast: Closed captions
EMBED CODE: <iframe width="480" height="443" src="http://www.ustream.tv/embed/schannel/1134" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border: 0px none transparent;"> </iframe>
Live Blog: If you want access to the embed code, please email me. Scribble live has to create a trial account first that pulls in our blog to your site.
Look I Voted: A NewsHour labs experiment pulling in Instagram photos tagged w/ #ivoted http://lookivoted.com/
Map Center/Electoral Calculator:
http://to.pbs.org/NCz82W<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://to.pbs.org/NCz82W&usg=AFQjCNF...>
-Embeddable map codes (can see how individual states voted in past
elections):
http://to.pbs.org/N21g1h<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://to.pbs.org/N21g1h&usg=AFQjCNG...>
Political Party Quiz:
Over
1 million people have taken the political party quiz. Have you?
http://to.pbs.org/Rjl3K7<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://to.pbs.org/Rjl3K7&usg=AFQjCNE...>
Let me know if you have any questions!
Ad Maker using Facebook: Have what it takes to run for president? Make your own attack, bio or ZOMBIE ad w/ @NewsHour's Ad Maker and find out http://bit.ly/newshouradlibs
Catch up on the full Presidential and Vice Presidential debates: http://bit.ly/Udz0g2
SUGGESTED TWEETS
From Juno, Alaska to the Virgin Islands, @NewsHour’s live bloggers are covering ground on #ElectionDay http://to.pbs.org/byqWki #pbselection
It's Election Day! @NewsHour is live streaming and live blogging to keep you in the know http://to.pbs.org/byqWki #pbselection
(After 7) Get a behind-the-scenes #hatcam look at #election2012 happenings in DC http://to.pbs.org/byqWki
Check out @NewsHour’s 6-channeled live stream of speeches, behind-the-scenes moments and #election2012 updates http://to.pbs.org/byqWki
Let me know if you have any questions!
Colleen
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Colleen Shalby
PBS NewsHour | Social Media Editor