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ABC News Says It Will Make Its September Presidential Debate Available To Simulcast On Other Networks


The network is not planning to air the debates exclusively.

That followed an earlier announcement by CNN that Biden and Trump had agreed to a first debate on June 27 at the network’s Atlanta studios, with no audience. Those events also were broadcast across networks, albeit the hosts were WBBM-TV in Chicago, WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. and ABC studios in New York and Los Angeles. The commission “was established in 1987 specifically to ensure that such debates reliably take place and reach the widest television, radio and streaming audience.

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