And from nomination to election in 11 days. And how will you take it all in? Well Channel 7 and KREM today launched their joint coverage for the 2024 municipals, called "Heat Check".
You may have seen the ad earlier on this newscast and today Jules Vasquez and Mose Hyde told us what to expect and anticipate on March 6th:
Mose Hyde, Co-Host, Heat Check
"It's obvious that we feel like election coverage is an important, but it's also a wide event. And so pooling our resources and sharing costs, and it really has given us an opportunity to do great work."
"And so we're always excited even though we know we compete, we know we are different in so many different ways, but I think when we get together we know, okay, we have a shared sense of professionalism, a shared sense of storytelling and being accurate and being about getting this job done at the highest level."
"And so I feel that the viewer has experienced in the past that kind of willingness to be creative, to be aggressive, and to be thorough, and they have enjoyed it. So somehow we still have each other's phone numbers on our phones, and we still somehow manage to have a conversation about it."
"It was at the 11th hour when the commitment was made again, and we're looking forward to it."
Jules Vasquez, Co-Host, Heat Check
"Okay, so Heat Check is the election coverage that we're doing, and Channel 7 and KREM have been doing it for two decades now."
"And what makes it special, I think, is the unique combination of personalities, of organizational cultures that we can throw down our arms because we're competitors, can throw down our arms and come together on election day to combine our resources along with our other friendly stations and alliance of the broke we like to call it."
"But we combine our resources to give people, I believe, the best mix of election day coverage and entertainment and analysis. Entertainment is always an important word to me. You have to be entertained to watch it."
"And I think we have a compelling blend of personalities. and a lot of experience in the studio. Certainly Mose and I and Indira have been doing it for two decades and we have a lot of experience. We're able to bring you that distilled concentrated heat check product on election day that will be everything you seek on that day, whatever they want, information, interviews out in the field or whether you want to be entertained by concise, precise, prescient even analysis."
