There were several articles today on FNC’s pre Superbowl Coverage which I couldn’t get to until now because I was out. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Joe Garafoli previewed today’s coverage here, while the Cincinnati Enquirer interviewed Bill Hemmer…

“Working in news, I have long felt politics is as close as we get to sports: There are winners, losers and changing strategies on both sides,” says Hemmer, who did sports here at Channel 5, and sports and news at Channel 9, before going to CNN in 1995. He joined Fox News in 2005 to anchor “America’s Newsroom” (9-11 a.m. Monday-Friday) with Megyn Kelly.

“(Republican presidential candidate) Mitt Romney told me in New Hampshire, ‘This is sport for old guys.’ He’s right, but the outcome is more relevant to the lives of Americans than anything I can imagine,” Hemmer says.

“It’s a thrill to see, meet and talk with so many engaged in the political process in Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida.”

FNC unveiled a new set this evening in its pre Super Bowl coverage on Fox Broadcast. The set will be used for Super Tuesday…

The LA Times’ Matea Gold previews Super Tuesday coverage…

Avoracious appetite for political news has prompted the broadcast television networks and their cable counterparts to gear up for extensive coverage of Super Tuesday, offering programming more typical of a presidential general election than a February primary day.

“This dominates in ways that politics hasn’t dominated since November of 2000, which was all politics all the time,” said Phil Griffin, NBC News’ senior vice president in charge of MSNBC. “There’s always been great interest at times like this, but this is great interest on steroids. People are consumed by it, and they’re going to flip around until they get to the next interesting development.”

With political newscasts attracting growing audiences, ABC and CBS chucked their original plans to do one-hour prime-time reports on the results of Tuesday’s two dozen primaries and caucuses. Instead, Charles Gibson will anchor five hours of coverage with his ABC colleagues Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos while Katie Couric helms a two-hour special on CBS. Over on NBC, Brian Williams will anchor an expanded edition of “Nightly News” and a one-hour prime-time report on the results.

What’s hot:

Debate ratings euphoria - CNN scored big in the debate ratings twice this week.

FNC’s pre-Super Bowl programming - Coming in front of one of the biggest media events of the year, FNC is poised to benefit from non cable news viewers watching FNC talent and programming.

Karl Rove to join FNC - Say what you will about the man, he was still the biggest free agent any network could get. And FNC got him.

What’s not:

When is a demonstration not a demonstration - When only six people show up…

MSNBC dayside news continues to struggle vs. HLN - The numbers rose in January compared to December and November. But MSNBC’s dayside news ratings are hardly flourishing.