Finding ways to make TV election coverage more interesting moves beyond multi-touch screens.
- NBC News using the ice rink at Rockefeller Center as an electoral map.
- CNN holding a watch party in Times Square.
- CNN using blue and red lights on the Empire State Building to keep track of the network’s electoral vote count.
- CNN using “ballot cam” for live shots at places such as voting sites.
- CNN and MSNBC using clocks counting down seconds to closing polls.