NBC News
October 6, 2020
TOMORROW — NBC NEWS
AND MSNBC AIR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE
FIRST AND ONLY VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
BETWEEN VP MIKE PENCE AND SEN. KAMALA
HARRIS ON WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7
Lester Holt, Savannah
Guthrie, Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell
Lead NBC News Primetime Coverage Starting
at 9 p.m. ET
Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Joy Reid
and Brian Williams Anchor MSNBC’s Special
Coverage of the 2020 Vice-Presidential
Debate Starting at 8 p.m. ET
Chuck Todd Anchors NBC
News NOW
Pre-Debate Special starting at 8 p.m.
ET, Debate Streams Live at 9 p.m. ET
Oct.
6, 2020 -
Marking the first and only time
Vice President Mike Pence and Sen.
Kamala Harris will meet on the
debate stage before the election,
NBC News and MSNBC
will deliver full coverage and
analysis of the vice presidential
debate on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at
The University of Utah, in Salt
Lake City, Utah.
Read
more here.
NBC NEWS COVERAGE
BEGINS AT 9 P.M. ET
- Starting
at 9 p.m. ET, NBC
Nightly News
anchor Lester
Holt
and TODAY
co-anchor and NBC
News chief legal
correspondent Savannah
Guthrie
will anchor from NBC
News
Headquarters in New York and Meet
the Press
moderator and NBC
News political
director Chuck
Todd and NBC News chief foreign
affairs correspondent and senior
Washington correspondent Andrea
Mitchell will anchor from
Washington, D.C.
MSNBC
SPECIAL “DECISION 2020” COVERAGE
BEGINS AT 8 P.M. ET ON MSNBC
-
Rachel
Maddow,
Nicolle
Wallace,
Joy
Reid
and Brian
Williams
will anchor MSNBC’s special
“Decision 2020” coverage of
the vice-presidential debate
on Wednesday, Oct. 7.
-
Starting
at 8 p.m. ET, Maddow, Wallace
and Reid kick off coverage
ahead of the debate live from
NBC News World
Headquarters in New York. They
will be joined by a team of
MSNBC political correspondents
and experts with reporting and
insight throughout the night –
including NBC
News
national political
correspondent Steve
Kornacki,
who will be stationed at the
Big Board with the latest
numbers and polling
data.
DEBATE
AND PRE-DEBATE SPECIAL TO STREAM
ON NBC NEWS NOW; FULL
DEBATE COVERAGE AND FACT CHECKS
ACROSS NBC
NEWS
DIGITAL
-
NBC News NOW
will provide debate coverage
for free, including a pre-show
hosted by Chuck
Todd,
and joined by Kasie
Hunt,
at 8 p.m. ET, available to
stream live and on demand on
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new
streaming service, as well as
on YouTube TV, Fubo, Xumo,
Pluto, and NBC
News’
OTT apps on Roku, Fire TV and
Apple TV.
-
The
NBC News
digital politics team will
live-blog the debate with
minute-by-minute updates,
highlights and takeaways. The
live blog will feature
reporting from Alex
Seitz-Wald
and Sahil
Kapur,
debate analysis from Jonathan
Allen
and fact checks by Jane
C. Timm
and Adam
Edelman.
-
The
NBC News Data
Graphics team will be tracking
topics covered throughout the
debates in a digital
interactive, in addition to
their continuously updated
interactives on voting,
polling, early results, user
predictor tools and
more.
PLUS,
NBC NEWS AND MSNBC
CORRESPONDENTS AND REPORTERS ON
THE GROUND IN UTAH AND
BATTLEGROUND STATES ACROSS THE
U.S.
-
NBC News and
MSNBC correspondents and
reporters will contribute to
debate coverage and provide
the latest reporting and
analysis across both networks
and online, including Geoff
Bennett, Mike Memoli, Ali
Vitali, Lauren Egen and
Janell
Ross
on the ground in Utah.
-
NBC News’ County
to County
reporters will be embedded in
key bellwether counties across
the country, including Dasha
Burns
in Beaver County,
Pennsylvania; Ellison
Barber
in Miami-Dade County, Florida;
Vaughn
Hillyard
in Maricopa County, Arizona;
and Shaquille
Brewster
in Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin.
WITH
28 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY, NBC NEWS BUILDS ON
ITS ‘COUNTY TO COUNTY’ REPORTING,
PLUS OTHER SPECIAL ELECTION
COVERAGE CONTINUES ACROSS ALL NBC NEWS PLATFORMS
NBC News will
continue to follow the 2020
presidential race across all its
platforms including:
-
Almost
a year after NBC
News’ County
to County
project
was launched and as the 2020
presidential election nears, the team
is doubling down on its on-the-ground
reporting in these all-important,
must-win counties bringing the latest
local updates from five key bellwether
counties in swing states across the
country.
-
Following
Vote
Watch
- a full week of special
coverage earlier this month
across NBC
News
and MSNBC - the networks will
continue to cover issues
related to U.S. election
security and voting across all
platforms led by the networks’
Vote Watch Unit - a team of
more than 24 correspondents
and reporters focused on
social media misinformation
and disinformation, voting
machines and technology,
election administration,
voting procedures, rights and
access, voter
disenfranchisement and voting
rights.
-
In
collaboration with the Cook
Political Report, NBC News is
creating Swing
The Election,
an exciting interactive tool
that allows users to see how
changes in turnout and support
among different demographic
groups could ‘swing’ the 2020
election.
-
In
a data collaboration with
TargetSmart, NBC
News
independently analyzes and
aggregates early-voting both
nationally and in available
states, sharing how many
Americans have requested a
ballot, received it and voted
early (both in-person and by
mail). The
Early Vote
interactive also includes
additional demographic
information about these
voters, including
partisanship, gender and age
and lets the user to compare
2020’s numbers to historical
2016 data.
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For more information, contact:
Richard Hudock
NBC News
Alexandra Roberts
MSNBC
Emily Passer
NBC News Digital
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ABC News
October 6, 2020
ABC NEWS ANNOUNCES
THREE-HOUR SPECIAL PRIMETIME COVERAGE OF
THE 2020 VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE ON
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 ON THE ABC TELEVISION
NETWORK
One-Hour Primetime
Special ‘Pence vs. Harris: The Vice
Presidential Debate’ Kicks Off Network
Coverage at 8:00 p.m. ET
ABC News Live’s Streaming
Coverage Begins at 7:00 p.m. ET
Featuring ABC News’ Powerhouse
Political Team
ABC News today
announced three hours of special primetime
coverage of the 2020 vice presidential debate
between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator
Kamala Harris on Wednesday, October
7 (8:00 – 11:00 p.m.
ET) on the ABC Television
Network. Chief Anchor George
Stephanopoulos will
lead coverage from New York City joined by
“World News Tonight” Anchor David Muir and
“ABC News Live Prime” Anchor Linsey Davis.
Network coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. ET with a
one-hour special, “Pence vs. Harris: The Vice
Presidential Debate - A Special Edition of
20/20.” ABC News’ powerhouse political
team will provide context and analysis
following the debate. ABC News Live will
begin coverage at 7:00 p.m. ET previewing the
debate on the network’s streaming news
channel.
ABC News’
powerhouse political team reporting the latest
on the race, campaigns, and the issues
includes Senior Congressional Correspondent
and Lead Campaign Correspondent Mary Bruce and
White House Correspondent Rachel Scott reporting
from Salt Lake City, “Nightline” Anchor Byron Pitts,
Chief Global Affairs Correspondent and “This
Week” Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz,
Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas,
Chief White House Correspondent and “This
Week” Co-Anchor Jonathan Karl,
Senior White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega,
“World News Tonight” Weekend Anchor and Chief
National Affairs Correspondent Tom Llamas,
Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran,
FiveThirtyEight Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver,
Special Correspondent Matthew Dowd,
and Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams.
Contributors Yvette Simpson, Rahm Emanuel, Kate Shaw, and Sara Fagen will
provide analysis on the debate and campaigns.
ABC News Live will
kick off debate coverage at 7:00 p.m. ET on “ABC News Live
Prime” with Anchor Linsey Davis taking
a deep dive into the most important issues at
stake in this election. ABC News Live will
then simulcast the network’s pre-debate
special, the debate and the
network’s post-debate analysis, and
immediately after, a roundtable will add
additional context and analysis for streaming
audiences. Earlier in the day, Anchor Diane Macedo will
anchor “ABC News Live
Update” at 9:00 a.m.
ET and 11:00 a.m. ET, and “Your Voice Your
Vote: The Breakdown,” ABC News Live’s
issues-oriented political program airing at
3:00 p.m. ET, along with Moran, which
will preview the debate and have complete
wrap-up coverage the following day with
reaction from voters on the issues that are
important to them.
ABC News will
have comprehensive digital coverage of the
debate on ABCNews.com,
the ABC News mobile app, and Apple News, with
live updates, fact checks, key takeaways,
breakout moments during the debate, and
post-debate analysis. Content includes an
ISSUES VP video featuring where Vice President
Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris stand on
multiple issues.
FiveThirtyEight will
preview the debate on the FiveThirtyEight
Politics podcast and
in its weekly politics chat. Working with the
polling firm Ipsos, FiveThirtyEight will also
survey voters both before and after the debate
to gauge the debate’s impact. After the event,
the team will publish a post-debate episode of
the Politics podcast and a post-debate Ipsos
poll that looks at who voters think won the
debate and how the debate changed (or didn’t
change) the race.
ABC News Radio will
offer three hours of live, anchored coverage
the night of the debate, including a one-hour
pre-show, followed by the debate and
post-debate analysis. Correspondent Aaron Katersky will
anchor coverage with reporting and analysis by
Correspondent Karen Travers,
Political Analyst Steve Roberts,
Political Director Rick Klein,
Deputy Political Director MaryAlice Parks,
and others from ABC News’ and
FiveThirtyEight’s powerhouse political teams.
ABC News Radio will also offer multiple
one-minute Status Reports throughout the
night. “Start
Here” will preview the debate morning of
and do a recap the morning after.
ABC NewsOne,
the affiliate news service of ABC News, will
provide full coverage with Multi-Platform
Reporter Zohreen Shah reporting
from the site of the debate and analysis from
Klein. NewsOne provides news content and
services for more than 200 ABC affiliates and
international news partners.
Marc Burstein is
the Senior Executive Producer of ABC News
Special Events, and David Sloan is
the Senior Executive Producer of Network
Primetime Content.
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