TV & VIDEO - May 18, 1989

A new California Poll has bad news for radio and television networks. About 61% of the respondents are unhappy with radio and TV coverage of elections, and 68% favor a ban on projecting winners before the polls have closed on the West Coast. An even greater majority, 73%, favor a uniform closing time so that everyone nationwide finishes voting at the same time. That figure slipped to 63%, however, if the plan meant that polls in California would close an hour earlier, at 7 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. The survey of 1,018 California adults was conducted April 13-22.