C-SPAN To Provide Live,
Gavel-To-Gavel Convention Coverage, Commercial- and Commentary-free
**Additional Content
for TV, On-Demand, Online, Social Platforms**
Continuing
the
Network’s
Tradition Since 1984 Of Covering Every Minute of Every
Convention
(Washington, DC; August 2, 2012) –
C-SPAN, the political network of record, will provide its national
audience with gavel-to-gavel coverage of the 2012 Republican and
Democratic presidential nominating conventions (Aug. 27-30 in Tampa for
the Republicans, and Sept. 4-6 in Charlotte for the
Democrats). Every minute of both conventions will be
televised live on C-SPAN, streamed live on C-SPAN.org, carried live by
C-SPAN Radio, and be immediately catalogued and archived in the C-SPAN
Video Library. Each individual speech can be independently viewed and
shared via the Video Library. Key speeches from each convention also
will be available via C-SPAN’s cable affiliates’ On-Demand platforms.
And, C-SPAN will augment its signature live convention coverage with
additional content for television, online, and social media -- with its
“Convention Hub” providing a central online social experience.
In addition to complete podium coverage, TV programming, airing on the
flagship C-SPAN network, will include:
daily coverage of official
party, delegate, and other political events at both conventions;
cameras around town providing a “delegates’-eye view” of Tampa and
Charlotte;
platform drafting
coverage for both parties, including the Republicans in Tampa the week
prior to the convention, and for the Democrats, the full Platform
Committee meeting August 10-12 in Detroit;
C-SPAN’s live morning
call-in program “Washington Journal” originating each day from the
conventions, giving viewers and voters the chances to talk with
convention participants and observers; and
C-SPAN’s Sunday
interview program “Newsmakers” originating from the convention cities.
C-SPAN coverage will be virtually 24 hours a day throughout the two
weeks of the conventions. Viewer calls and social
media reactions to the events of the day will follow each day’s
official session, providing an immediate electronic focus-group into
national reactions to the speeches and the campaign.
C-SPAN Senior Executive Producer and Political Editor Steve Scully will
lead the network’s convention coverage. Scully has covered every
convention for C-SPAN since 1992 and has attended every convention
since 1980.
Media
Partnerships
Unique media partnerships will give C-SPAN viewers access to newsmakers
and insightful political analysis throughout the conventions.
Through a partnership with POLITICO,
C-SPAN will televise:
the daily POLITICO Playbook
Breakfasts with POLITICO’s
Chief White House Correspondent Mike Allen,
LIVE 8amET Monday through Thursday at both conventions;
POLITICO’s 30-minute
convention wrap-up program each night of the convention at midnight ET;
and POLITICO’s
60-minute convention preview program on Sunday in Tampa and on Monday
in Charlotte.
Through a partnership with National
Journal, C-SPAN will carry:
National Journal’s “Daily
Morning Briefings,” live each day of the conventions; and
National
Journal's "Path to Power" event at each convention, focused on
how each
presidential candidate would govern after the election.
Online
and Social Offerings – The Convention Hub
C-SPAN’s online Campaign 2012 “Convention Hub” designed by
JESS3, the creative agency which designed C-SPAN’s Webby
Award-nominated 2008 Convention Hub, will provide complementary video,
political information, and social engagement opportunities for C-SPAN’s
political audience. The Hub will bring together people who love
politics and are interested in the conventions to watch, discuss, share
and connect with others.
Among its features, the C-SPAN Convention Hub will:
provide unlimited online
access to C-SPAN’s complete and gavel-to-gavel coverage of the RNC and
DNC Conventions, live and on-demand;
catalog the most
popular viewer-generated video moments of C-SPAN coverage;
provide easy access to delegate tweets;
use the
hashtags #cspanrnc and #cspandnc to facilitate a community of viewers’ twitter reactions;
allow the C-SPAN audience additional opportunities to hear from
delegates and media beyond the official sessions via Google+ Hangouts;
and solicit and
showcase mobile- and web-friendly real-time video Touts from viewers
and convention participants.
An
Accessible Video Record
Additional C-SPAN content offerings for both conventions:
the C-SPAN Video Library will archive every individual podium speech
for searching, clipping, and sharing;
C-SPAN will tweet out links to the specific videos for each podium
speech; and through C-SPAN’s cable partners, key speeches from the
conventions will be available via video-on-demand.
C-SPAN in
the Community
In partnership with C-SPAN’s local cable affiliates, Bright House
Networks in Tampa and Time Warner Cable in Charlotte, the C-SPAN
Campaign 2012 Bus will be at both conventions for community outreach
and education. C-SPAN’s American Presidents Exhibit will be open to the
public in both Tampa and Charlotte, as will other C-SPAN political
history exhibits.
About C-SPAN:
Created by the cable TV industry and now in over 100 million TV
households, C-SPAN programs three public affairs television networks in
both SD and HD; C- SPAN Radio, heard in Washington DC at 90.1FM and
nationwide via XM Satellite Radio Channel 119 and via the C-SPAN Radio
app for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry users; and a video- rich
website which hosts the C-SPAN Video Library. Visit
http://www.c-span.org/ or follow us on Facebook and on Twitter @cspan.