Politics could go primetime

POLITICS COULD GO PRIMETIME
[SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter, AUTHOR: Paul J. Gough]
A prolonged writers strike could spark something of a revival in the kind of political coverage on the broadcast networks that has long been ceded to cable. At least one broadcast network -- NBC -- is allocating a minimum of an hour in primetime to cover the so-called "Super Duper Tuesday" string of 20 primaries across the U.S. that ultimately could determine each party's presidential candidate. While that was in the works before the strike, the networks aren't ruling out an increase in airtime to the news division that night or in early January with the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. As the only broadcast network with a fully distributed cable news platform, NBC's political unit will be up and running full blast no matter what. MSNBC, like Fox News Channel and CNN, already is planning wall-to-wall coverage of the primaries.
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