Scott Pelley to Lead CBS News' Election Night Coverage

Network using eight studios for seven hours of reporting

By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/2/2012 3:51:29 PM

CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley will lead CBS News' seven hours of reporting on Election Night Nov. 6 from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York.

CBS News will use eight studios and three control rooms for its coverage running from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m., with Bob Schieffer, Norah O'Donnell and John Dickerson joining Pelley in Studio 47.

Byron Pitts will report from 60 Minutes' Studio 33 using virtual reality models of the House and Senate to illustrate key races and Anthony Mason will be in CBS This Morning's Studio 57 to deliver exit-polling data.

Jan Crawford will report from Romney campaign headquarters in Boston and Nancy Cordes from Obama's in Chicago. Other CBS News correspondents will be stationed in key battleground states including Dean Reynolds in Ohio, Anna Werner in Nevada, Elaine Quijano in Florida, Barry Petersen in Colorado and Wyatt Andrews in Virginia.