CNN Launches ‘Election Center’ Program
John Roberts to Anchor 8 p.m. Program
By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 1/14/2008 4:53:00 AM
Starting Monday night, CNN will dedicate the 8 p.m. hour each weekday to the latest election news coverage from the campaign trail in a new program, CNN Election Center, officials said Monday. The program fills the time slot previously occupied by Paula Zahn, who left the network in August.
CNN Election Center will be anchored from both the New York-based CNN Election Center and on the trail by CNN anchor John Roberts.
Roberts will anchor live from the field as candidates circulate through Michigan, Nevada, South Carolina, Florida and California as the Super Tuesday primaries approach. In New York, a rotating slate of anchors, including Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Lou Dobbs, John King and Soledad O’Brien, will anchor from the CNN Election Center. Cooper and Roberts will co-anchor the program’s debut edition.
CNN Election Center will air each weekday from 8 to 9 p.m. through the week of Super Tuesday. The program also serves as a television companion to CNN.com’s Election Center available at http://www.CNN.com/ELECTION/
Joining the program from the trail will be CNN’s political team, including Dana Bash, John King and Mary Snow covering the Republican candidates, and Candy Crowley, Suzanne Malveaux and Jessica Yellin reporting on the Democrats.
Also out on the campaign trail will be CNN correspondents Jim Acosta, Tom Foreman, Joe Johns, Chris Lawrence and Dan Lothian. Gloria Borger; senior political analyst; Jack Cafferty, commentator; David Gergen, senior political analyst; Bill Schneider, senior political analyst; and Jeff Toobin, legal analyst; will also contribute to the program along with CNN contributors Bill Bennett, Carl Bernstein, Donna Brazile and Roland Martin.
Jeff Kepnes serves as executive producer for CNN Election Center.
An extra hour of Lou Dobbs Tonight will preempt CNN Election Center this Tuesday, Jan. 15, the day of the Michigan primary, with Lou Dobbs Tonight airing from 7 to 8 p.m., followed by a Lou Dobbs Tonight Special Report, “Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit,’ airing from 8 to 9 p.m.
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Get some one else on the program besides Joe Madison
He is belittling to American people and absolutely turns me off
Dorothy Austin - 7/11/2008 8:25:00 PM EDT -
I am so sick and tired of the CNN anti- Hillary movement.
So what if she miss spoke about an event years ago.It just isnt as important as the issues this nation is facing currently. The fact remains she is the most quailfied of all the canidates to lead us out of this mess. And in the General election she will beat McCain not Obama. Everyone forgets she did win Michigan and Florida, and if the votes were counted she would be ahead by a million votes. Stop writing her off. You are poisoning the electorate for the upcoming primiares. What happens if she does win 3 out of four? The fact is Obama still DOES NOT HAVE 2025 and cant get them either. Let him drop out. With his racist and anti american friends he wont win the general. I know this wont get on air because anything to do with pro hillary and anti Obama sentiment just isnt your format.
Jeannette Stoppeillo - 3/25/2008 8:18:00 PM EDT
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