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  • Fox, NBC triumph in US election coverage ratings

    Fox, NBC triumph in US election coverage ratings

    MUMBAI: In a major week for the US news channels, early ratings indicate that American viewers turned to NBC and the Fox News Channel the most for the latest on the presidential election on 2 November. Fox News came out on top among the cable networks with 8.1 million viewers followed by CNN with 6.2 million total viewers in prime time. Fox managed over three times the number it managed on election night four years ago. What is also interesting is that four years ago CNN had a lead over Fox.

    Presidential election night coverage among the six major US news outlets – ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC – totaled a 34.5 rating and averaged 55.051 million viewers between 8 and 11 p.m. (ET), according to estimates by Nielsen Media Research.

    That places the aggregate delivery of the election coverage below CBS’ coverage of Super Bowl XXXVIII, which generated a 41.4 rating and 89.8 million viewers, the highest-rated event carried by a single network this year. NBC, which featured Tom Brokaw’s last election night as a news anchor, generated the highest election night results. It reached 15.2 million viewers, followed by ABC (13.2 million) and CBS (9.5 million), say media reports.

    Online US voters flocked to the Web as news sites pulled out the stops on election day coverage, offering everything from the latest exit poll results to nuts-and-bolts information on where to vote. ComScore Networks released a report that indicated that both the Kerry-Edwards 2004 and Bush-Cheney ’04 Web sites received more than 300,000 hits from US visitors on 1 November. The traffic spike, on the eve of the election, more than doubled the average daily traffic for both sites.

    GeorgeWBush.com landed 317,000 visits, roughly 3 percent more than Kerry’s site, which tallied 306,000 on Monday. Traffic to the Kerry site was 128 percent higher than normal, while the Bush site was up by 103 per cent.

    CNN.com, saw election day page impressions rise by nearly 525 per cent over the average daily traffic on the site. On 2 November CNN.com posted a new one-day high of 372 million page views, beating its previous one-day record on the day after 9/11 when it recorded 307 million page views.

    Meanwhile MSNBC.com had set up a voter complaint hotline and began publishing real-time data on alleged voting problems in all 50 states. Polling stations with e-voting machines drew the most calls, according to the site, with more than 50,000 complaints by late Tuesday.

  • CNN looks to Nasdaq Video Wall to beef up US election night coverage

    CNN looks to Nasdaq Video Wall to beef up US election night coverage

    MUMBAI: One of the biggest news worthy events of this year the US Presidential election is approaching soon. On 2 November Americans go to the polls to decide whether Bush deserves a second term or if John Kerry should be given an opportunity. CNN International and CNN/US will broadcast to a global audience of more than 250 million homes from electronic stock market Nasdaq’s facilities in Times Square, New York.     

    By utilising Nasdaq’s facilities and 96 screen video wall the network will be able to bring together unprecedented real time election information from across the US, including real-time vote information, exit polls and analysis of key state races across the country. For those in and around Times Square on election night the seven-storey Nasdaq Tower, one of the largest stationary video screens in the world, will also project CNN’s election coverage.
    CNN intl senior VP Rena Golden added, “As we have said all year long, our network is committed to providing viewers around the world the most complete coverage of this election right down to the last ballot. We are pleased that our partnership with Nasdaq has provided this dynamic backdrop enabling us to be innovative in our reporting and analysis of such an historic occasion.”
    CNN’s America Votes 2004 will operate two separate control rooms in CNN’s New York headquarters at Time Warner Center. One control room will coordinate the main election night programme being anchored by CNN’s political team while the other will control the dozens of Nasdaq video screens in real-time.

  • CNN to host US election town meeting 19 Aug

    CNN to host US election town meeting 19 Aug

    MUMBAI: CNN will host a live one-hour town meeting on 19 August in Canton, Ohio. The aim is to directly examine and discuss key concerns of America’s undecided voters.

    The show airs on 19 August at 8:30 am. Ohio is one of the key battleground states in the 2004 election. Stark County, which includes Canton, has voted for every winning presidential candidate since 1960, except for Jimmy Carter in 1976. Recent polling shows 14 per cent of Stark County voters are still undecided and it promises to be a highly competitive region for the candidates.

    An audience of 200 likely voters will join CNN’s Paula Zahn. The discussion will address the most pressing issues facing voters in Stark County, including the economy, jobs, education, terrorism and the war in Iraq. Representatives from both US President George Bush’s and senator John Kerry’s presidential campaigns are expected to join Zahn in fielding questions from the audience.

    Zahn added, “With the large undecided vote in Ohio, Canton is a great place to tap into what really matters to voters. Members of our audience will be actively involved in the programme and will be encouraged to ask questions of both campaigns.”

  • CNN’s US election contest offers a trip to Hong Kong

    MUMBAI: One of the most news worthy events of the year the US Elections are around the corner. CNN has launched an online and SMS based marketing initiative ‘US Election 2004 Poll’ competition.     

    The aim is to engage viewers in the 2004 race for the White House by offering participants an opportunity to win a trip for two to CNN’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.

    Viewers across the country can cast their vote on which presidential candidate they think should win by visiting the web site on http://www.raceforwhitehouse.com and share their top foreign policy ideas or SMS ‘CNN’ to 4646.

    The best entry to the competition will be selected as the winner. Prizes to the winners comprise of two round-trip airline tickets from India to Hong Kong, night stays at a hotel and a visit to CNN’s regional headquarters in Hong Kong.