News Releases > KERA Election Night Coverage

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 29, 2008

CONTACT: Meg Fullwood
214-740-9377
mfullwood@kera.org  

 
 

KERA Offers Comprehensive Election Night Coverage On-Air and Online
November 4, 2008 from 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.

DALLAS/FORT WORTH - KERA in partnership with PBS and NPR will offer extensive election night coverage of the national, regional, state and local races from 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 4, 2008. NPR and PBS will deliver in-depth coverage, analysis and up-to-the-minute election results of the national and regional races on television and radio.  The KERA news team will provide election results and analysis of the local and state races.

                                  • NPR coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. on KERA-FM

                                  • KERA coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. on KERA-FM.

                                  • PBS coverage will begin at 8:00 p.m. on KERA 13.


KERA’s Shelley Kofler will be joined by election analysts in the studio and in Austin. KERA reporters will deliver updates from campaign watch parties. KERA-FM can be heard at 90.1 in Dallas/Fort Worth/Denton, 88.3 in Wichita Fallas, 100.1 in Tyler and 99.3 in Sherman. Visit KERA’s Voters’ Voice page at www.kera.org/votersvoice for links to the latest state and county election results.

All Things Considered hosts Michele Norris and Robert Siegel will anchor NPR’s election coverage from 7:00 p.m. to midnight. Scott Simon, host of Weekend Edition Saturday, and congressional correspondent Debbie Elliot will anchor from midnight to 2:00 a.m. (CT). NPR’s analysts, correspondents and reporters will cover national and regional results from more than two dozen sites across the country, carry major speeches and update its online election map as states are called. Election Night coverage will be streamed live at www.NPR.org and will include the first ever live-captioned radio broadcast from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. (CT).

 
The NewsHour’s Jim Lehrer will anchor PBS’ election coverage with political analysis by Mark Shields and David Brooks. The NewsHour’s Senior Correspondents will report from election headquarters and offer perspective on the night’s events. Judy Woodruff reports from Obama’s election night headquarters in Chicago, Ill., and Ray Suarez reports from McCain’s election night headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz. Gwen Ifill speaks with analysts Amy Walter and Stuart Rothenberg. Margaret Warner gets perspective from The NewsHour’s panel of historians. Jeffrey Brown speaks with NPR correspondents on the ground in key battleground states and Kwame Holman offers an overview of Election Day across the country.
 
VIDEO YOUR VOTE

http://www.youtube.com/videoyourvote

The Online NewsHour features videos from Americans around the country and U.S military members and expatriates around the world casting their ballots, discussing the voting process, and chronicling democracy at work as part of “Video Your Vote,” a citizen journalism project by PBS in partnership with You Tube.

TWITTER

Online reporters will post results, updated Electoral College counts, interesting analysis quotes and links to The NewsHour’s Twitter feed while using the Twitter community to locate problems at polling locations.

MOBILE PHONE ELECTION RESULTS PAGE

http://pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/mobile    

Recognizing that many people will want the latest election results and analysis on their cell phones, the Online NewsHour will offer live tallies from the presidential and Senate races in a convenient mobile phone site. The site, optimized for the iPhone, will also feature the NewsHour’s Twitter updates and a list of poll closing times.

NEWSHOUR / NPR INTERACTIVE MAP

The NPR/NewsHour interactive election map will provide up-to-the-minute election results for the presidential race down to the county level as well as all Senate, House and gubernatorial races; an Electoral College vote count; reports from NPR, The NewsHour and local public broadcasting stations; background and analysis on each state; and balance of power graphs for the House and Senate.

About KERA

KERA is an independently owned and operated not-for-profit public broadcasting organization. For the past 20 years, the station has provided the public with elections of importance through The Texas Debates. Services include original television and radio productions, national public television and radio programs, online resources at www.kera.org and an educational resource center that develops programs for children, families and educators. KERA productions have earned the highest awards in broadcasting, including Peabody, DuPont, Emmy, Clarion and many more.

About NPR

Since its launch in 1970, NPR has evolved into a leading multimedia company, award-winning primary news provider and dominant force in American life. NPR produces and/or distributes 1,500 hours of programming weekly, including more than 150 hours of news, information, talk, entertainment and cultural shows for the 800-plus NPR Member stations around the country, attracting more than 26 million listeners weekly. NPR also programs two 24/7 channels for Sirius satellite radio and five 24/7 music multicast channels for digital HD Radio, having served as an industry leader in HD research and development. NPR.org offers extensive original video and audio content, hourly newscasts, concerts and free audio streaming of current and archived NPR programs.

About The NewsHour

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is seen five nights a week on more than 315 PBS stations across the country (check local listings) and is also available online, via public radio in select markets and via podcast. The program is produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, in association with WETA, Washington, DC and Thirteen/WNET in New York. Corporate funding for The NewsHour is provided by Chevron, Pacific Life and Vestas, along with major funding from the Atlantic Philanthropies, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation the National Science Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers.