ABC NEWS ELECTION NIGHT
INFORMATION AND ASSETS
ALL-IN-ONE ADVISORY
Stations:
We are pleased to provide to you a rundown of information and material that ABC News will be providing you for the Midterm Elections.
In the note below, there are links to different advisories and assets for you to use in your newscasts and on your digital platforms around the 2018 Midterms.
For any questions about this, please contact NewsOne at 212-456-4110.
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ELECTION NIGHT BROADCAST PROGRAMMING BOOKING WIRE:
This is the Booking Wire that was sent to ABC stations with information about the ABC News Election Night broadcast programming. It includes local cutaway information and other timing info.
https://www.abcnewsone-info.com/newsone-election-night-booking
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PRESS RELEASE:
This is the press release about ABC News Election Night coverage.
https://www.abcnewsone-info.com/newsone-your-voice-your-vote
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NEWSONE COVERAGE PLANS FOR ELECTION DAY:
The complete NewsOne plan for Election Day is available at this link:
https://www.abcnewsone-info.com/newsone-coverage-of-the-2018-midter
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AFFILIATE TICKER EXAMPLES:
These are fullscreen examples of what the Affiliate Ticker will look like during ABC News broadcast coverage on Election Night. There is also a fullscreen graphic that shows the line numbers where the Affiliate Ticker will appear during ABC News broadcast. This Ticker is where affiliates can place their own election results during our network coverage.
https://www.abcnewsone-info.com/2018electionaffiliateticker
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ABC NEWS ELECTION GRAPHICS AND ANIMATIONS:
This is a link to ABC News Election Night graphics and animations available for download. This link goes to the ABC ”A-Net” Affiliate Marketing website. You must have a login to the A-Net site to access this material.
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ELECTION NIGHT BROADCAST EMBED CODE:
ABC News is making our Election Night broadcast coverage available to embed on your station’s branded website.
This coverage will be the same as the coverage that airs on the ABC TV Network from 8:00 pm ET to 11:00 pm ET and 8:00 pm PT to 11:00 pm PT. For clarity, this means that this embed code will provide 6 consecutive hours of ABC News Election Night programming from 8:00 pm ET through 2:00 am ET.
The embed code for this coverage is below. Please remember to paste the embed code in Plain Text.
<iframe src='https://abcnews.go.com/video/portableplayer?id=abc_live12&affil=true&size=inpage&autoStart=true' width='640' height='360' scrolling='no' allowfullscreen style='border:none;'></iframe>
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ELECTION DAY WIDGETS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR WEBSITE:
ABC News and FiveThirtyEight are making widgets available on Election Day for use on your website.
This link has details of what widgets are available and how to access them:
https://www.abcnewsone-info.com/widget-list
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ABC NEWS RACE PROJECTIONS WILL BE SENT ON THE NEWSONE TWITTER FEED ON ELECTION NIGHT:
As ABC News projects results of winners on Election Night, we will be sending these projections down via the NewsOne Twitter feed at @abcnewsone.
The NewsOne Twitter feed is protected, so if you want to follow us on Twitter and you’re not already following us, you will need to send us a request through Twitter.
NOTE: If it’s not clear that you work for an ABC station in your Twitter name or profile, please send an e-mail to joan.p.maltese@abc.com along with your follow request so we know to approve you.
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ABC NEWS “BALLOTWATCH” TEAM ON ELECTION DAY:
On Election Day, ABC News will be running a “BallotWatch” team, eyeing all of the states with an emphasis on anything out of the ordinary that could happen, and we invite your participation.
More details can be found at this link:
https://www.abcnewsone-info.com/abc-news-ballotwatch-team
If you have any questions, please contact NewsOne at 212-456-4110.