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NBC: Decision Night in America at 7pm
ABC: ABC News Your Voice Your Vote: Election Night 2016
CBS: Campaign 2016: Election Night at 7pm
MSNBC: Election Night 2016 at 7pm
CNN: Election Night in America at 7pm
FOX: You Decide 2016: Election Special at 8pm
Local TV stations are among the 50 news outlets teaming with Facebook for its live #50states Election Day coverage. Tegna is the biggest partner in the initiative, with 6 of its stations onboard: KUSA Denver, KING Seattle, KARE Minneapolis, KTVB Boise, WCSH in Portland, Maine and Columbia, South Carolina’s WLTX. Each news organization is tasked with posting a 15-minute about the presidential election in that state, as well as live videos offering real-time data; the videos appear on Facebook’s “Election 2016” page. “On Election Day, our goal is to reach the maximum audience with our local reporting and inform our audience to make an educated voting decision,” said Frank Mungeam, Tegna’s VP of digital content. “Partnering with Facebook gives us the chance to expand the reach of our local journalism.”
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CBS announced additional Election Day coverage plans. CBS Evening News expanded to an hour last night and will stretch again Wednesday night, November 9, from 6:30-7:30p, while CBS This Morning adds an hour of coverage Wednesday, from 7a-10a. Streaming service CBSN is offering continuous coverage today starting at 6a; network coverage starts at 7a with CBS This Morning.
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Fox News’ new midtown Manhattan studio made its debut on Sunday, and will offer new tech tools including a “video chandelier” to show live remotes and a circular LED floor and a touch-enabled screen to break down election results tonight. It’s part of a $20 million+ renovation of a 3,675-square-foot space once partly occupied by a FedEx Kinkos store.
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A+E Networks has relaunched History en Espanol with a new look, a new programming strategy and more than twice the number of premiere hours. Nightly vertical themes include auto (Mondays), historical treasures (Tuesdays), mysteries (Wednesdays), “Wild History” (Thursdays), “The Hidden Truth,” featuring Last Days of the Nazis and Hunting Hitler on Fridays, Saturday’s “Mega Specials + Drama,” and Pawn Stars on Sundays. “We’re injecting HEE’s primetimeschedule with new genres of programming to serve an even wider segment of the growing Hispanic audience throughout the U.S.as we continue to grow our channel,” said Edward Sabin, Managing Director, Americas and Head of Communications, International.
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Multicultural Millennials gobble media at very high rates, according to a new report from Buzz Marketing Group, with 89 percent watching TV daily and 81 percent turning to television for daily news. For 55 percent of the group, TV is their most trusted source of information. And they’re not fickle 95 percent consider themselves loyal to brands they like.
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TV Land ordered American Woman to series. The 1970s period dramedy, inspired the life of Kyle Richards (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills), stars Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) as a single mother struggling to raise two daughters. John Wells Productions will produce in association with Warner Horizon Television.
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CBS is developing a spinoff of Warner Bros. TV hit The Big Bang Theory, centered on a young Sheldon Cooper growing up in Texas. Variety reports the project is in early stages, but close to a script deal. Sheldon portrayer Jim Parsons would exec produce, with Chuck Lorre and Steve Molaro.
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Fox grabbed two comedy projects from Kat Co. under its production partnership with Kapital Entertaiment and 20th Century Fox Television. Otis the POTUS centers on a black sheep presidential impersonator, while Linda From HR focuses on an office worker forced to spy on her company.
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Adult Swim ordered a second season of Decker: Unclassified, the comedy that launched on AdultSwim.com in 2014, and migrated to linear in June. The freshman run averaged over one million total viewers a week.
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Family drama The Classic, produced by Mandalay Sports Media, Sofia Vergara and her Latin WE and Delirio Films, is in development at ABC, reports Deadline. Studio for the show, centered on an East LA football rivalry, is 20th Century Fox Television.
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Season 12 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia launches on FXX Wednesday, January 4 at 10p, followed by the season 3 premiere of Man Seeking Woman at 10:30p.
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Discovery’s Moonshiners premieres Tuesday, November 15 at 9p, sandwiched between Moonshiners Special at 8p, and the launch of Homicide Hunters: The Kenda Files at 10p.
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Esquire has two series premieres lined up for Tuesday, November 15. Custom motorcycle build series Wrench Against the Machine debuts at 9p, followed by Joyride, featuring celebrity car fanatics hitting the road.
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Summer series America’s Got Talent celebrates the season with a special, America’s Got Talent Holiday Spectacular, featuring Andra Day, Pentatonix and Penn & Teller as well as performances from past season favorites and participation from judges Mel B, Heidi Klum, Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel. Nick Cannon hosts the two-hour event on Monday, December 19 at 8p on NBC.
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Fox is also using network talent to get in the spirit of the season. Taraji’s White Hot Holidays airs Thursday, December 9 at 8p, with Empire star Taraji P. Henson joined by co-star Jussie Smollett, as well as Taye Diggs, Pharell Williams, Missy Elliot, Alicia Keys and more. Last year, Henson co-hosted a “White Hot” special with Empire co-star Terrence Howard that drew 5.1 million viewers.
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getTV is featuring classic Christmas programming in primetime every night between Sunday, November 27 and Sunday, December 24, with a round-the-clock marathon from December 18-25. Highlights include one of the last televised appearances of John Wayne, on 1978 special Perry Como’s Early American Christmas, and 1977’s The Johnny Cash Christmas Show.
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American Heroes Channel is teaming with AARP for a collaboration that kicks off Friday, November 11 at 10p. The Battle I’ll Never Forget, produced for AHC by AARP Studios, shares first-hand accounts of critical conflicts in American history.
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E! will be live (of course!) with multiplatform red carpet coverage for the 2016 American Music Awards on Sunday, November 20 at 6p, prior to the awards telecast on ABC. Jason Kennedy and Tinashe will host. Designs get dissected the next day on E!’s Fashion Police at 8p.
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Cartoon Network is offering a marathon of holiday episodes on Thursday, December 1 starting with The Powerpuff Girls at 5p, and ending with Steven Universe at 8:30p.
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Exactly 30 years after its original release, HNET Movies is airing 1986 high school basketball drama Hoosiers, on Monday, November 14 at 9p. Gene Hackman stars in the true story.
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Discovery en Espanol will present Caza de Brujas en San Antonio, the Spanish version of Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four, on Sunday, November 13 at 9p. The one-hour documentary telling the story of four Latina lesbians who were wrongfully convicted of aggravated sexual assault and indecency in Texas over 20 years ago airs during “Discovery a Fondo,” the network’s programming block dedicated to current affairs.(Source: Cynopsis)
CNBC’s The Profit is headed to Cuba. In a special episode on Tuesday, November 15 at 10p, entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis will profile pioneering capitalists. “The Cuban people have an amazing spirit,” said Lemonis. “Seeing how small business functions in a communist country gave me an understanding of what’s really happening in Cuba.”
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Will Chase will return to Nashville as a guest on the country music drama’s season 5 premiere on CMT in 2017.
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Dallas Roberts (The Good Wife) will recur as the husband of Felicity Huffman’s character on season 3 of ABC anthology series American Crime.
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Ted Danson (The Good Place) and Mary Steenburgen (Last Man on Earth) will return as guest stars on season 9 of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. The married couple play themselves. Also back are series regulars Larry David, Cheryl Hines and Susie Essman.
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Paul Reiser (Mad About You), Sean Astin (Rudy) and Danish actress Linnea Berthelsen (Teenland) have joined the season 2 cast of Netflix’s Stranger Things, about to start production.
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Jonathan Howard (Guilt) landed a recurring role on season 4 of TNT’s The Last Ship.
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Nielsen reissued its November Cable Network Coverage Areas Universe Estimate, showing losses at 89 out of 119 networks, after pulling the data for review. “November estimates were accurate as originally released,” said the measurement company, attributing the drop to fewer households subscribing to cable.
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NBC’s November 5 Saturday Night Live drew a solid 5.8 household rating and 2.8 among A18-49 in overnights, the second best this fall and up 14 percent versus the November 2015 average.
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ID had its best October ever in Prime delivery for all key demos including P2+, HH, P25-54, and W25-54 on Live+3 Day viewing, with the network averaging 909,000 primetime viewers P2+ for the month. October 2016 was also ID’s best October ever in Total Day delivery for those same demos, while the network held tight to the #1 spot for Total Day delivery of W25-54 in all ad-supported cable for the third month in a row.
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Discovery Channel wrapped the month of October with more top 10 unscripted cable series than any other network across M25-54 and M18-49, remaining the top cable network in in the demos (excluding sports) for 2016 to-date. Gold Rush remains the year’s #1 series on all of television, including scripted, on Friday nights across Men 25-54, 18-49, 18-34.
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Spanish-language Estrella TV’s Premios de la Radio topped all networks in the LA market regardless of language in A18-34, A18-49 and A25-54. The live show celebrated the top recording artists in Latin music.
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