ABC Information Finalizes Presidential Debate Guidelines

Prime of the Ticker: With solely 4 sleeps to go earlier than Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face off in Philadelphia of their Sept. 10 presidential debate, ABC Information has set the bottom guidelines for the blockbuster occasion. Mics will certainly be muted, no viewers will likely be permitted and there will likely be two business breaks in the course of the 90-minute match. As with the CNN debate on June 27, no props or consultations with marketing campaign workers is allowed and there will likely be no opening statements. Get loads of relaxation this weekend, as a result of Tuesday is gonna be a late evening…

Highway Warriors: MSNBC’s Symone Sanders Townsend and Melissa Murray are becoming a member of forces for the upcoming particular, Black Girls in America: The Highway to 2024. Premiering Sept. 29 at 9 p.m. ET, this system sends the duo throughout the nation to talk with acclaimed and achieved ladies of shade, together with Kerry Washington, Sherrilyn Ifill and Minyon Moore.

Podcast Energy: Audiophiles gained’t have to attend an excessive amount of longer to hearken to extra episodes of the MSNBC podcast, Velshi Banned Guide Membership. Season 2 formally kicks off on Sept. 12, though the primary two installments can be found now for MSNBC Premium subscribers. The sophomore 12 months will go behind the covers of controversial books by such authors as Roxane Homosexual, Stephen Chbosky and Lois Lowry.

In the meantime, the Fox Climate forecast sees video podcasts incoming. Beginning in the present day, meteorologists Ian Oliver and Steve Bender are anchoring Storming the Discipline, a football-themed collection that clues pigskin followers into the climate circumstances they’ll anticipate to see any given Sunday. Storming the Discipline will air weekly in the course of the NFL season and is obtainable on a number of platforms, together with Fox Climate’s YouTube web page and FoxNewsPodcasts.com

Koppel Time: Veteran journalist Ted Koppel is anchoring this weekend’s particular CBS Information Sunday Morning installment dedicated to chronicling the present political second. Titled This Time is Totally different, the episode explores what’s on the minds of voters by way of the information and tradition they’re consuming. Koppel made the pilgrimage to the Wisconsin State Truthful to talk with attendees one-on-one… and pattern all of the fried meals fare, in fact.

Awards Watch: Scripps Information reporter Jason Bellini has added one other honor to his crowded shelf. Following earlier accolades from the Deadline Membership and the New York Press Membership, Bellini acquired the David Bloom Award from the Radio and Tv Correspondents’ Affiliation for his half-hour particular, Ukraine’s Stolen Orphans. “We didn’t have the big groups on the bottom [in Ukraine] that different shops did,” Bellini informed TVNewser in June. “We discovered our personal approach of masking the battle.”