Renaissance Channel to broadcast live election coverage

Release Date: 10/10/2002. Expired: 11/5/2002

Dickson County cable television subscribers will once again be able to tune in for exclusive election returns for the Nov. 5 general election.

The Renaissance Channel (Comcast 19) will be broadcasting local, district and statewide election results beginning when polls close at 7 p.m.

“We received such tremendous feedback about our broadcast of results from the August primaries and county general election that we decided to give it another shot with the November election,” said Bob Spencer, assistant executive director of The Renaissance Center who co-anchored the broadcast with Chris Norman, senior marketing director at the center. “The people of Dickson County were excited to have live television coverage of local election returns and urged us to continue with the service.”

“With hotly contested races for governor, U.S. Senate and other offices, plus a referendum on allowing a lottery in Tennessee, we expect there will be increased interest in the Nov. 5 election,” said Norman, a former newspaper editor and radio news director in Dickson.

Spencer and Norman will co-anchor the coverage from the digital television studio of The Renaissance Center, broadcast origination point for the Local Access Cable Channel on the Dickson County Comcast system. With a direct link to the Dickson County Election Commission office in Charlotte, the broadcast will receive precinct results as they are reported.

The broadcast also will have access to statewide results and LeAnn Polk, director of events at The Renaissance Center, will again join the broadcast team to present the numbers as they are recorded.

The election night coverage will mark the fourth time a live program has been broadcast on the Local Access Cable Channel in the 14-year history of the channel. Previous live broadcasts include the August election night coverage, a June forum featuring candidates for county executive and a report from The Renaissance Center’s first anniversary celebration in August 2000.

“The technology of The Renaissance Center gives Dickson County residents a unique opportunity to experience a quality of programming that most municipally owned local access channels cannot provide,” Spencer said.

The Renaissance Center provides 30 hours of quality weekly programming on the Local Access Cable Channel through an operation agreement with the city of Dickson.

For more information on The Renaissance Channel, call Sandra Harris at 740-5558. The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson.