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BET DETAILS OBAMA-CONVENTION COVERAGE: Network to go live from Denver each night; plus offer extended news briefs and more.
LA Times article asks if BET and TV One's coverage can be impartial
*BET Networks announced it will offer live nightly coverage of the Democratic National Convention, with broadcasts tonight through Aug. 28, as well as other special programming across multiple platforms.
Also, four BET News specials will explore key issues of the presidential election. These programs will join hours of on-air programming on BET and BET J, live coverage, daily news specials, public service announcements, and extended news briefs, in addition to extensive coverage online and on BET On Blast, the network's broadband channel.
The schedule for coverage of the Democratic National Convention on BET and BET J is as follows:
Monday, August 25
• 10 p.m. BET and BET J will air Michelle Obama's speech live. Following the speech, there will be a half-hour of analysis with BET News correspondents, political analysts and special guests from the Pepsi Center.
Tuesday, August 26
• 9 p.m. "WHAT'S AT STAKE: The Top 10 Issues Affecting Black America": Entertainers and political experts weighing in on these topics include Rev. Al Sharpton, Nas, Chuck D, David Banner, Crystal McCrary Anthony, John McWhorter, Boyce Watkins, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, Keli Goff, Clay Cane, Rob Stapleton, Donnell Rawlings, Ardie Fuqua, Godfrey, Jina Johnson, Samson, Sharon Carpenter, Staceyann Chin and Keith Boykin.
• 10 p.m. BET will air Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech live. Following the speech, there will be a half-hour of analysis with BET News correspondents, political analysts and special guests from the Pepsi Center.
Wednesday, August 27
• 10 p.m. BET will air Vice Presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden's speech live. Following the speech, there will be a half-hour of analysis with BET News correspondents, political analysts and special guests from the Pepsi Center.
Thursday, August 28
• 8:30 p.m. "THE DREAM: 45 YEARS LATER": This special will take an inside look at Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic speech of August 28, 1963 and "his" dream exactly 45 years later as it relates to the 2008's presidential race and this defining moment in history as Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States of America.
• 9 p.m. "OBAMA'S JOURNEY TO THE WHITE HOUSE": This special, which first premiered after Obama became the presumptive nominee in June, counts down the top 10 moments of Obama's rise to the Democratic nomination for president.
• 9:30 p.m. "THE TRUTH WITH JEFF JOHNSON": BET's new weekly talk show will provide special coverage before and after Obama's speech. Johnson and a team of political strategists, special guests and BET News correspondents will provide context and analysis and the latest developments of the Democratic Convention.
• 10 p.m. DNC Nomination Speech: BET and BET J will air Barack Obama's nomination speech live from Invesco Field in its entirety.
Friday, August 29
• 11:00 p.m. "THE TRUTH WITH JEFF JOHNSON"
• 11:30 p.m. "LOCKED OUT: EX-CONS AND THE VOTE": This BET News special takes an in-depth look at voter disenfranchisement.
For more on BET Networks' presidential election coverage, please visit BET's Decision '08 site: http://www.bet.com/news/decision08.
In related news, Greg Braxton of the Los Angeles Times wrote a piece in Saturday's paper titled "TV One and BET deny they're Obama cheerleaders."
The article notes the unprecedented coverage of the Democratic National Convention by both BET and TV One and seeks to find out just how unbiased the reporting seeks to be.
"We've gotten folks who can discuss these issues and what's happening from all sides of the coin," Robert Branch, TV One's director of programming and production, told the Times. "There will be balance from people who can speak with passion."
Read Braxton's entire article here.
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