Television executives overseeing this year’s election night broadcasts are facing big challenges. To accommodate the idiosyncrasies of this pandemic-era campaign, networks are planning tweaks to the way some election nights looked in the past. “We’re preparing the audience that this might not be over in one night,” said Susan Zirinsky, the president of CBS News. Mishkin, like vote counters at rival networks, will be sequestered from the anchor team on election night, an effort that news organisations say shields the decision desk from competitive pressures. “It’s possible we will have a clear outcome on election night at a reasonable hour, and I don’t want the audience to be suspicious of that,” he said.

Source: bd News24 November 01, 2020 08:37 UTC