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Prior to Tuesday’s guilty verdict in the corruption trial of Democratic Senator Bob Menendez (NJ), the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC spent only nine minutes (8:56) on their flagship morning and evening newscasts and Sunday morning political talk shows. But by Tuesday night, they came out of the wilderness with six minutes of coverage (6:08).
NBC, which had three minutes and 33 seconds on the trial (and was the only network to have mentions on each of their flagship newscasts), shockingly led Tuesday’s Nightly News with nearly three minutes (2:53) on the verdict, not the Republican National Convention.