DANBURY, CONN. — Television viewers across western Connecticut will receive live coverage of state and congressional election results provided by a crew of more than 60 Western Connecticut State University students and faculty members who will present a three-hour broadcast on Tuesday, Nov. 4, from the Charter Communications Cable Access Studio in Newtown.
“Election Connection” will air from 8 to 11 p.m. on the Charter cable network’s Channel 192 and on AT&T U-verse Channel 99. Coordinated by executive producer Dr. JC Barone, associate professor of communication and media arts at WCSU, the broadcast will feature a team of four anchors delivering up-to-the-minute coverage of election results for the congressional, gubernatorial and other state office contests from 17 western Connecticut cities and towns in Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties. The program also will provide analysis of polling numbers and reports by WCSU students from six field locations across the region.
A radio simulcast of the program will air on WXCI-FM (91.7), with live Web streaming of the broadcast provided at www.wcsu.edu/live and www.wxci.org. Viewers will be invited to participate directly in coverage by calling in live with their comments at (203) 270-3821 or by sending tweets on Twitter at “@ElectionCT” that will be presented in social media reports during the broadcast. Information on the program also is available on Facebook at “WCSU Election Connection.”