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Local stations plan election coverage
KEYE
Web video and coverage will be available on weareaustin.com and via the CBS affiliate’s mobile apps for smart phones. The station has crews in Houston with Bill White, the Travis County Democrats at the Driskill and with the Rick Perry campaign at the Texas GOP headquarters. KEYE’s “Austin Live” at 4pm and the KEYE News at 6 will have an election focus. Local reports will cut into network coverage from poll closing to the 10 p.m. news broadcast. Telemundo Austin will feature news crawls and special coverage at 5 p.m. as well as the returns at 10pm.
Fox7
KTBC’s live coverage kicks off at the campaigns at 5 p.m. with result updates throughout the night and online coverage at myFoxAustin.com. Fox 7 News Edge will be live from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., then again 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. with an election special, “You Decide 2010.” The Fox7 team is covering the Governor’s race with Rick Perry and state Republican leaders gathering in Central Texas, in Buda, and they’ll be live in Houston at the Bill White (Democratic) camp. City beat reporter Nancy Zambrano will follow Austin’s Proposition 1, which looks for voters to approve a $90 million bond package for street, road, and sidewalk and other infrastructure improvements.
KVUE
Austin’s ABC affiliate will expand its 10 p.m. Nightbeat newscast to an hour, airing from 10 p.m.-11 p.m. During the evening, the station will air local results during ABC’s prime time programming, and provide election returns (the station promises, though, to exercise restraint when breaking into the popular “Dancing With the Stars,” which airs from 7-8:30 p.m. KVUE will take advantage of local windows, inserting a couple of local updates per hour into primetime network coverage between 8:30 and 10 p.m. Up to the minute election results will be available on the station’s website.
KXAN
The local NBC affiliate has enlisted the aid of a trio of strategic partners for comprehensive election coverage: The station is sharing reporters with Community Impact Newspapers; integrating interactive features from the Texas Tribune into its online and on-air coverage and sharing its own station feeds to the Texas Tribune website; and sharing content with KLBJ radio. The station will take full advantage of the local time built into network coverage and KXAN’s newscasts will be election-focused with expanded coverage from 10-11 p.m.
News 8 Austin
Austin’s Time Warner Cable-operated 24-hour, 7-day-a-week local news channel is sending coverage plans. This post will be updated when they arrive.
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