TV Networks Will Cover Conventions

Television news executives have begun to set their plans for covering the four-day Democratic convention, which begins on Aug. 25, and its Republican counterpart, which opens in St. Paul on Sept. 1, Labor Day. ABC, CBS and NBC all intend to show at least three hours of live, prime-time coverage of both conventions, which is about what the networks did four years ago, though this year they are expected to broadcast in high-definition. The cable news channels expect to offer many more hours than that, perhaps none more so than MSNBC, which is seeking to swamp the efforts of its principal competitors, CNN and Fox News, by showing 20 hours of live convention programming each of the four days that the conventions are in session. To put that figure in perspective, consider that much of the official party business is conducted over the course of about four hours a night.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/arts/television/12netw.html?ref=todays...
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