This election season, PBS's flagship documentary series FRONTLINE
offers voters more options than ever to view its quadrennial
award-winning election special
The Choice 2008, premiering Tuesday,
Oct. 14, from 9 to 11 P.M. ET on PBS (
check local listings),
with encore broadcasts Sunday, Oct. 26, and Monday, Nov. 3, 2008.
For the first time, viewers will also be able to watch the complete
two-hour dual biography of John McCain and Barack Obama on YouTube
(
youtube.com/pbs ) and download it free from iTunes beginning
Oct. 15 through the month of November.
The Choice 2008 will also
stream in the high-quality News & Public Affairs Player at
pbs.org/frontline and on many local PBS station Web sites,
where visitors can select from a rich archive of more than
45 full-length FRONTLINE reports, as always with no commercials.
"Now more than ever, new media plays an important role
in how Americans learn and share information about the election,"
says FRONTLINE executive producer David Fanning.
"It's important that we continue to fulfill the mission
of public broadcasting by extending free viewership
of
The Choice 2008 to as wide an audience as possible
and by reaching out to voters across these digital platforms."
Digital Cable television viewers will also be able to access
The Choice 2008 via Elections '08 On Demand, a voter-education
VOD channel that is being offered across the country on America's
leading cable operators, including Comcast, Cablevision
and Time Warner Cable among many others.
The Choice 2008
also will be offered On Demand through additional
local cable operators in select markets. Please check
with your cable provider to find
The Choice 2008
and Elections '08 On Demand. Finally, repeat broadcasts
of
The Choice 2008 are scheduled on the digital channel
PBS WORLD on Oct. 15 at 7 P.M.; Oct. 16 at 12 A.M.,
8 A.M. and 2 P.M.; and Oct. 19 at 12 P.M. ET.
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