Election Day is here and the major news networks are prepared for a long night and, potentially, a long week.

With more than 50 million people voting early in the 2024 presidential election, Tuesday night will offer plenty of results to review even if a final winner is not announced until later in the week, and most news networks will report start to his election night. coverage at 6 pm ET, with CNN even starting at 12 am ET while NBC News starts at 5 pm ET.

MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki will return to the Big Board, and will even be live-streamed on Peacock and other social platforms, while Fox News will see Bill Hemmer running the “Bill” board.

Most networks have scheduled eight hours of programming for Election Night from 6 p.m. ET to 2 a.m. ET, and no immediate outcome is expected for the presidential showdown between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. As such, they have also developed contingency plans for greater election week coverage.

See below for a full breakdown of the major news networks’ plans for election night coverage on Tuesday and beyond, and how you can tune in to each one.

cnn

What time does coverage begin: 12 a.m. ET, Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper

Transmission options: CNN coverage will stream live with no sign-in required on Pay TV from 7 pm to 3 am ET on Tuesday, November 5, on CNN Connected TV and mobile apps. CNN.com. It will also be broadcast live on Max.

Starting at 12 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Boris Sánchez, Jessica Dean, Erica Hill, Kasie Hunt and Omar Jiménez are among the hosts who make up the core morning team, before Cooper and Paula Reid take over at 10 a.m. ET.

At 4 pm ET, Tapper and Cooper will take over the anchor desk and will be joined by Dana Bash, Erin Burnett, Audie Cornish and Chris Wallace, with John King on the Magic Wall. As coverage extends beyond 2 a.m. ET, John Berman and Hunt will lead with Phil Mattingly on the Magic Wall, and will be joined by Harry Enten, Mark Preston, Eva McKend, Alayna Treen, Dean and Jiménez.

MSNBC

What time does coverage begin: 6 p.m. ET, directed by Rachel Maddow

Transmission options: Live streaming available on MSNBC.com and MSNBC youtube channel. The Kornacki Cam will stream on MSNBC.com, YouTube, X, TikTok and Peacock.

Maddow will lead MSNBC’s election coverage beginning at 6 p.m. ET, and will be joined at MSNBC’s New York headquarters by Nicolle Wallace, Ari Melber, Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Alex Wagner, Lawrence O’Donnell, Stephanie Ruhle and Jen Psaki. Coverage will continue throughout Tuesday night.

Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Claire McCaskill will share their thoughts on the election campaign on “The Insiders” panel throughout Tuesday’s coverage, while contributors and analysts including Nick Hasen, Matt Sanderson, John Fortier, Edward Foley, Nate Persily, Franita Tolson, Michael Morse, will also be available to provide their expert opinion.

Election board celebrity Steve Kornacki will return to the Big Board when state-by-state results are known on Tuesday, with the Kornacki Cam streaming across Peacock, MSNBC.com and social platforms.

fox news

What time does coverage begin: 6 p.m. ET, directed by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum

Transmission options: Live streaming available on FoxNews.comwith the Fox News Digital election center that allows users to follow the presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races.

Baier and MacCallum will kick off Fox News’ eight-hour special election coverage as they host “Fox News Democracy 2024,” with analysis and commentary from Dana Perino, Brit Hume, Harold Ford Jr., Jessica Tarlov, Karl Rove and Kellyanne Conway. Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters and Sean Hannity will also appear throughout the night, which runs until 2 a.m. ET.

Fox News will have its own Steve Kornacki-style approach through its “Bill” dashboard, in which Bill Hemmer will break down election data county by county and state by state as it comes in. will employ augmented reality (AR) technology and touch-screen applications as Fox News upgrades its Studio M, home for election coverage.

NBC News

What time does coverage begin: 5 p.m. ET, directed by Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie

Transmission options: NBC News Now will broadcast live programming for more than 40 hours, starting at 7 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Peacock will offer a multi-view experience starting at 6 p.m. ET, including NBC News NOW, Kornacki Cam and a map analysis of the results. NBCNews.com and the NBC News app will also offer a live blog.

NBC News will offer 24 consecutive hours of live coverage to viewers on their local NBC stations for the first time. Hallie Jackson and Tom Llamas will begin election coverage at 5 pm ET on NBC and NBC News Now before Holt and Guthrie lead coverage at 6:30 pm ET, and will be joined by Jackson and Kristen Welker as Llamas leads the Big Board. That coverage will continue until 2 a.m. ET, when Kate Snow and Craig Melvin take the reins alongside Chuck Todd, Kelly O’Donnell and Ryan Nobles until 6 a.m. ET.

Guthrie and Hoda Kotb will take over at 6 a.m. ET with a special election edition of “Today,” before Melvin hosts from 10 a.m. ET to 12 p.m. ET. NBC News Daily will air from 12 pm ET to 5 pm ET on local channels and will be broadcast on NBC News Now, with Snow, Vicky Nguyen, Morgan Radford and Zinhle Essamuah as anchors. At 6:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Holt will host a special one-hour edition of NBC Nightly News.

ABC News

What time does coverage begin: 7 p.m. ET, directed by David Muir

Transmission options: ABC news live will feature more than 72 hours of election coverage starting Monday, November 4 at 2 a.m. on Disney+, Hulu, YouTube, Roku, Amazon, Samsung TV and other platforms. The streaming news channel will feature an election night preshow at 4 p.m. ET, hosted by Kayna Whitworth, leading into ABC News Live’s simulcast of the network’s coverage at 7 p.m. Eastern time.

Muir will lead the network’s coverage beginning at 7 p.m. ET and will be joined by Linsey Davis, Martha Raddatz, Jonathan Karl, Mary Bruce, Rachel Scott, Terry Moran and Rick Klein, while Pierre Thomas, Aaron Katersky , Dan Abrams and Kate Shaw form the “election surveillance” table. At 2 a.m. ET, “World News Now” will begin coverage before a special edition of “Good Morning America First Look” begins at 4 a.m. ET.

CBS News

What time does coverage begin: 4 pm ET on CBS News 24/7 and at 7 pm ET on CBS, led by Norah O’Donnell

Transmission options: CBS News 24/7 Coverage will begin at 4 pm ET with Vladimir Duthiers, Ed O’Keefe and Lindsey Reiser. At 7 p.m., special election coverage will air on CBS News 24/7 and Paramount+.

O’Donnell will lead coverage beginning at 7 pm ET and will be joined by Margaret Brennan, John Dickerson, Gayle King, Cecilia Vega, Robert Costa and Ed O’Keefe. At 6 a.m. ET on Wednesday, CBS Mornings will air a special election edition with Gayle King, Nate Burleson, Vladimir Duthiers and Tony Dokoupil. CBS Evening News with O’Donnell will move to election headquarters in New York from Friday, November 1 through Wednesday, November 6.

Election Night Live with Brian Williams on Prime Video

What time does coverage begin: 5 pm eastern time

Transmission information: The Brian Williams special will stream exclusively on Prime Video and will be available to Amazon customers regardless of whether they have a Prime account.

The former NBC Nightly News anchor will lead Prime Video’s first nightly election coverage starting at 5 pm ET/2 pm PT. Williams will share poll results and commentary in real time alongside a variety of traditional news and media analysts and experts. This is streaming’s first major dip into the waters of live election coverage.

telemundo

What time does coverage begin: 4:00 p.m., by Julio Vaqueiro and Arantxa Loizaga

Transmission options: Telemundo coverage will stream across Peacock, Roku, YouTube, Samsung TV Plus, Fire TV, as well as Noticias Telemundo accounts on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X.

Decision Coverage of the 2024 elections will begin at 4:00 p.m., led by Damià Bonmatí and Claudia de la Fuente before Vaqueiro and Loizaga take the lead at 7 pm ET. They will be joined by Vanessa Hauc, Johana Suárez, Bonmatí, Nicole Suárez and Rogelio Mora-Tagle, who will be at the Gran Pizarra. At 6 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Guad Venegas and de la Fuente will have coverage until noon ET on Noticias Telemundo AHORA and then on the Telemundo network. Coverage will include reports on the impact of the Latino vote, elections involving Hispanic candidates and national reactions from Latino voters.