Networks set Election Night plans

October 24, 2008 Two broadcast networks are taking advantage of their centrally located Manhattan real estate to offer not just a broadcast on Election Night but something of a gathering place for passers-by. ABC News will broadcast from its Times Square studios, incorporating the "crossroads of the world" setting into its coverage as well as blasting video and electronic ticker results of voting to the tens of thousands, mostly tourists, who will be passing by. [...] NBC News will set up shop in another NYC landmark, Rockefeller Plaza, using electronic signs of their own for results as well as coloring the skating rink red and blue depending on how states vote.

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