NewsNation has a different kind of recipe for Election Night — heavy on stats, light on the gas.
\n\nWhen the Nexstar cable-news outlet launches five hours of coverage of the nation’s 2026 midterm elections on November 3, it will do so with the intent of keeping viewers interested in key results and on-the-ground reporting, giving them so much of it they won’t be craving the usual analysis and roundtable chatter.
\n\n“I think what are aren’t going to have is a lot of noise,” says Page Lobdell, executive producer of special projects and events for NewsNation, during a recent interview. “All the opinion and the commentary and the talking heads sitting around a table giving their talking points, we are going to want to cut that out.”
\n\nExecutives at the network hope their coverage reminds some viewers of “NFL RedZone,” the “whip-around” format that takes viewers to important moments as they happen. The network is, as it has during recent coverage of elections, relying on Decision Desk HQ, a tabulator of voting data that enjoys a good record as an early caller of key races. That company’s data-miners will hold forth in a “war room” at Georgetown University and will offer…
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