HDNet elects Rather for primary coverage
New York (Hollywood Reporter) - Dan Rather's back in the bicycle seat.
The former "CBS Evening Newsworthiness" keystone will be on the air Tuesday night at HDNet for at least two hours of insurance coverage of the North Carolinas and Indiana presidential primaries. The coverage, which will airwave part during the "Dan Preferably Reports" time slot, will be televised go in front of an consultation at the Newseum in Capital, D.C.
Guests include former U.S. Rep. Tony Coelho, D-Calif., political experts Donald Henry Watson Fowler and St. Peter Hart and media critic Uncle Tom Rosenstiel.
It's the fourth such night of election coverage for Rather, wHO presided over 2 decades' worth as the CBS anchorperson. Without taking anything away from what the broadcast and overseas telegram networks do, Instead said that, by circumstance and design, HDNet is doing something different.
"If all we crapper do is do what the others do, there's no rationality to do these programs," Rather said. "We're trying to make the interview at heart the political work." So instead of video walls and short bursts of analysis 'tween exit polls and election results, Sort of and his team ar expiration to get what he calls a "conversation" about the results and what they intend.
The prove is scheduled to run 7-9 p.m. EDT, with a double beginning at 11 p.m. The later telecast volition at the very least have an update on the results if it's a "breathtakingly shut race," according to Kinda.
"We mean to be on until -- and a little bit beyond -- the issuing has been decided," Rather said.
Reuters/Hollywood Newsperson
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