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In the coming weeks, Austria’s National Council election campaign will dominate political coverage on ORF.at, the regional studios’ online desks, ORF TELETEXT and ORF OK MultiText, with numerous daily reports on campaign developments.
The ORF.at network will also let users submit questions to leading candidates and will live-stream all televised confrontations and candidate debates. From August 22, 2008, wahl08.ORF.at will provide comprehensive on-demand programming and election service information.
Thomas Prantner, ORF director of online and new media, said: “During the campaign and on election night, ORF.at, ORF TELETEXT and ORF OK MultiText will provide up-to-the-minute information around the clock. Online coverage is ideally complemented by a multimedia focus featuring live and on-demand streams of election television programs.”
On election night, all three media services will report projections and results together with analysis and reactions. ORF.at and ORF TELETEXT will again present detailed results down to municipal level, while users can follow the special television broadcasts live on ORF.at.
ORF Online: Current Election News and Candidate Answers
ORF.at and the regional online desks will report daily on party plans, campaign appearances, television debates and possible coalitions. In the first week of September, leading candidates from parliamentary parties will answer user questions in the ORF.at newsroom; other participating parties and groups will also have their positions represented.
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Comprehensive Multimedia Offering at wahl08.ORF.at
The special site will offer every televised confrontation, leading-candidate debate, “Im Zentrum spezial,” “WAHL ’08 – Ihre Frage,” press-hour broadcasts and election reports as video on demand. Launching August 22, it will also summarize essential election information and link to election reporting, interviews and features at oe1.ORF.at. The confrontations, debates and “WAHL ’08 – Ihre Frage” will also be live-streamed.
Election Night on ORF.at
Users will receive minute-by-minute projections and results, including municipal detail, plus reports and analysis of the background, potential consequences and domestic and international reactions. ORF television’s complete election-night coverage will be streamed live, including initial reactions from party headquarters.
Election Coverage on ORF TELETEXT and ORF OK MultiText
ORF TELETEXT’s “Wahl 08” focus will report daily on the campaign, summarize debates and interviews, and provide information on every participating party. During the week before the election it will present figures and practical details covering voters, polling stations, postal voting and voting age. Election day will feature a 15-page special and detailed municipal results from page 500. ORF OK MultiText will likewise emphasize the campaign, with current reports followed by election-night projections, results, analysis and reactions.
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