NPR.Org news release: Election 2008, First Ever Live Captioned Radio
Broadcast
NPR’S COVERAGE ACCESSIBLE TO DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING THROUGH FIRST
EVER LIVE CAPTIONED RADIO BROADCAST
“Election 2008” Team to Provide Coverage, Analysis
From D.C., Campaign Headquarters, Key Battleground States
October 22, 2008; Washington, D.C. — NPR News “Election 2008” will
offer nine hours of live broadcast and webcast coverage of Election
Night 2008 on November 4 from 8:00PM to 5:00AM (ET). NPR’s extensive
multimedia coverage of the general election — which will include live
streaming, blogging, interactive tools and mobile capability — will
be anchored from NPR’s worldwide headquarters in Washington, D.C.,
with reporters positioned with the campaigns and in more than two
dozen sites around the country.
All coverage will be broadcast on NPR Member stations nationwide.
NPR’s Election Night coverage will also be streamed free and live from
www.NPR.org and from the Web sites of many stations; for the first
time, headlines and real-time returns will be available on wireless
devices
through NPR Mobile.
In another first, NPR News’ Election Night coverage will be
accessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing through the first ever live
captioned radio broadcast. This historic broadcast will be coordinated
by an initiative of NPR, Harris Corporation and Towson University, and
will use cutting-edge HD radio technology, developed by the three
organizations, to allow the deaf and hearing impaired to experience
NPR’s broadcast via scrolling text on specially-equipped receivers.
The captioned NPR broadcast will be available live from 8:00PM to
11:00PM (ET) on www.NPR.org, and shown at viewing events at NPR’s
headquarters in D.C., and at the NPR Member stations WGBH in Boston;
KCFR in Denver; and WTMD in Towson, MD. The broadcast is the latest
move by the three organizations to make radio more accessible to the
millions of sensory impaired individuals around the world. A press
release announcing this Election Night offering, and the larger
initiative, is available at: http://i-cart.net/
NPR News’ coverage of Election Night 2008 will be its most extensive
to date, involving more than 100 journalists stationed in NPR’s D.C.
headquarters, and reporting from key battleground states and campaign
sites. Throughout the night on-air and online, NPR will cover all
major national and regional results, updating its interactive election
map at NPR.org as states are called; carry major candidates’ speeches;
and provide political analysis and reaction.
Two teams will anchor NPR’s broadcast: All Things Considered hosts
Michele Norris and Robert Siegel from 8:00PM to midnight (ET), and
Scott Simon, host of Weekend Edition Saturday, and congressional
correspondent Debbie Elliot filling the anchors’ chairs from midnight
to 5:00AM (ET). Joining the hosts will be members of NPR News’
“Election 2008” team, including correspondents Cheryl Corley, Don
Gonyea and Scott Horsley at Obama and McCain campaign headquarters;
White House correspondent David Greene in Cleveland; and All Things
Considered weekend host Andrea Seabrook in Columbus. NPR will also
report from sites in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri,
New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Providing analysis throughout the night will be NPR’s Washington
editor Ron Elving, national political correspondent Mara Liasson and
political editor Ken Rudin in D.C., and News & Notes host Farai
Chideya from NPR West in Culver City, CA. They will be joined by
political analysts Andy Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center;
E.J. Dionne, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and columnist
for the Washington Post; and Matt Continetti, staff writer for The
Weekly Standard. Correspondent Pam Fessler will also report on any
voter irregularities at the polls.
NPR.org, which will live webcast NPR’s Election Night coverage, will
continue to be the primary online destination for original journalism,
blogs, special series and reports about Election 2008.
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