'PBS NewsHour' Scraps Monday Convention Coverage

With no convention to cover on Monday, PBS NewsHour pulled the plug on its three-hour primetime
coverage, planned for 8-11 p.m. Monday, instead starting earlier Tuesday.

According to the show, it will begin its coverage at 7 p.m.
on Tuesday -- that will include speeches by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)
and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, as well as TV personality Janine Turner (Northern Exposure) but after the roll
call for the nomination of VP, which is scheduled to end at 6:40 p.m.

But PBS is not confining its coverage to TV. It has 6
channels of live streamed coverage at www.pbs.org/newshour or www.ustream.tv/pbsnewshour.

That 7 p.m. is an hour earlier than planned, but NewsHour won't short viewers on the
other end, continuing through the close of business for the day, which is
estimated to be 11 p.m.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.