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COVERAGE OF THE CONFIRMATION HEARING OF BRETT KAVANAUGH

** THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 **

 

 

Hello Stations!

 

The historic hearing for Supreme Court nominee Greet Kavanaugh takes place on Thursday, September 27 in Washington.

 

ABC News and NewsOne will have complete coverage.

 

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ABC NEWS NETWORK COVERAGE PLANS:

 

ABC News will air a Special Report live to the full Network on Thursday, September 27, 2018, beginning at 10:00 AM ET / 7:00 AM PT to cover Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Professor Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

 

The Special Report will start at 10:00 am ET straight up.

 

The duration of the hearing is currently unknown, but we anticipate that Special Report coverage could potentially run for multiple hours. George Stephanopoulos will anchor.

 

In the event of any breaks or brief recesses during the hearing, ABC News may elect to run 2:00 floating breaks (consisting of 1:00 promo followed by 1:00 local commercial). Please note: these floating breaks are not guaranteed and will air at ABC News’ discretion. The 1:00 local commercials will be protected with Network promos and may also be used as a local news cutaway. Due to the fluid nature of the hearing, the location and timing of the breaks will be issued via NAS.

 

Additionally, ABC News will make best efforts to provide clean ins/outs at the approx. top of each hour (starting at approx. 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT) in the event your station chooses to transition to/from your normally scheduled local newscasts.

 

Finally, ABC will plan to air the originally scheduled episodes of “The View,” “GMA Day” and “General Hospital.” However, in the event that the special report interrupts and/or preempts any of these programs in the Eastern and Central time zones, ABC may choose to provide standby, repeat episodes of “The View,” “GMA Day,” and “General Hospital” to the Mountain and/or Pacific time zones. Programming updates will be provided via NAS.

 

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EMBED CODE FOR THE NETWORK SPECIAL REPORT:

 

ABC News Digital is making available embed code for Thursday’s Kavanaugh hearing for you to embed on your station’s branded website:

 

 <iframe src='https://abcnews.go.com/video/portableplayer?id=abc_live11&affil=true&size=inpage&autoStart=true' width='640' height='360' scrolling='no' allowfullscreen style='border:none;'></iframe>

 

NOTE: Please paste the code in Plain Text.

 

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NEWSONE PLANS:

NewsOne will be offering live shots all day from Capitol Hill on the hearings.

 

LIVE SHOTS:

 

  • Correspondent Lana Zak offers GROUP and custom live shots from Capitol Hill from 4:30 am ET through 3:00 pm ET

  • Correspondent Emily Rau offers GROUP and custom live shots from Capitol Hill from 4:00 pm ET through 2:30 am ET

 

CLEAN FEEDS:

  • We will offer a clean feed of the witness camera and the questioner’s camera through the hearing on the NewsOne Live Channels Thursday.  Please check the NewsOne Twitter feed @abcnewsone for the details on these live feeds.

 

PACKAGES:

 

  • We will offer updated packages for all time zones on the hearing throughout the day.

 

SOUNDBITES:

 

  • We will feed soundbites from the hearings through NewsOneNET as the hearings progress on Thursday.

 

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If you have any questions on our coverage plan, please call NewsOne at 212-456-4110. 

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