Inside Tv & Radio Election 2008 Networks Itch to Declare Winner

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › November 05, 2008

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Summary

We've become used to TV coverage of presidential elections stretching long into the night.

This one was decided as prime time ended at 10 p.m., when the networks and news channels' reticence about calling the race dissolved with the closing of polls on the West Coast.

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Inside Tv & Radio Election 2008 Networks Itch to Declare Winner

"We're back on the air, and we have news," intoned NBC's Brian Williams. "There will be young children in the White House for the first time since the Ke...

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