After last week's marathon live blog of Super Tuesday III, tonight's lone primary, West Virginia, should be called well before Wednesday begins (the most recent poll shows a 36-point Hillary Clinton lead). The networks will be covering the action, in very different ways. Polls close at 7:30pmET:

• ABC: Kate Snow follows the Clinton campaign and David Wright follows the Obama campaign.

• Bloomberg: Live coverage begins at 9pmET, with Ron Christie discussing results. World News with Charles Gibson will be updated for time zones across the country. Cynthia McFadden anchors Nightline.

• CNN: Wolf Blitzer anchors coverage starting at 7pmET, and Campbell Brown joins at 8pmET, along with the BPTOT. Anderson Cooper 360 airs at 10pmET, Larry King Live airs at MidnightET.

• FNC: Brit Hume anchors coverage of election results from 7-8pmET. Shepard Smith moderates the Strategy Room. Regarding the one hour of coverage, SVP Bill Shine tells TVNewser, "It's, so far, looking like it's going to be her night."

• MSNBC: Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews anchor from 6-11pmET, and Dan Abrams takes over with After Hours from 11pmET-2amET. Mike Huckabee and Harold Ford, Jr. serve as MSNBC Insiders.

• Broadcasting & Cable's Marisa Guthrie reports Fox News is expanding its partnership with the web site The Palestra, a student reporter site with 200 college affiliates. The site relaunches next week as Palestra.net, and will include daily news updates available to mobile phone users.

Some reporters for the site have been offspring of tvnewsers — Peter Doocy (son of FNC's Steve Doocy) and Stephan Holt (son of NBC's Lester Holt) have contributed reports. (pictured is Palestra correspondent Tiffany Wilson)

• Howard Kurtz profiles NBC political director Chuck Todd in today's Washington Post. "For political junkies, Todd has become all but inescapable," writes Kurtz of the previously out-of-the-limelight personality.

Tim Russert, who hired Todd says, "The secret to his success is he understands politics and can explain it. Our platforms are 24/7, and someone has to man the platforms."

• TV Week's Michele Greppi reveals the results of the yearly poll of Sunday morning news show bookers. Topping the biggest get category? Democratic nominees Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Other category winners are Sen. John McCain ("star of the green room"), Rudy Giuliani ("highest maintenance") and Sen. Lindsey Graham ("easiest to deal with").

The NYTimes sums up the new, new thing in American political punditry: Karl Rove.

Jim Rutenberg and Jacques Steinberg write, "There are 'Karl Rove-types,' and there is Karl Rove, who helped to define the modern brand of hardball politics and built a new team of Republican operatives..."

At times clearly partisan, at others apparently offering down-the-middle analysis, Mr. Rove in his new role as a media star marks another step in the evolution of mainstream journalism, where opinion, "straight news" reporting and unmistakable spin increasingly mingle, especially on television.

The story points to other operatives-turned-TV pundits including, George Stephanopoulos whose "abrupt move 11 years ago from the Clinton White House to ABC News raised hackles inside and outside the network;" Nicolle Wallace, who's gone from politics to TV and back again; Alex Castellanos: from the Mitt Romney campaign to CNN; and three other members of CNN's BPTOT: Paul Begala, James Carville, and Donna Brazile. As for "the architects" TV performance, Rutenberg and Steinberg write:

As an on-camera presence, Mr. Rove is not necessarily a natural. Neither his doughy chin nor his ashen complexion would be confused with those of, say, Brian Williams of NBC News.

It appears the Clinton campaign is still going after NBC/MSNBC for their coverage of the candidiate. This time, they are targeting Tim Russert for telling viewers Tuesday night: "We now know who the Democratic nominee is going to be, and no one is going to dispute it."

Howard Kurtz writes today that Jay Carson, Clinton's press secretary, "fired off an e-mail yesterday to Chuck Todd, NBC's political director. While assuring Todd that he was 'not trying to be a jerk,' Carson wrote: 'Can you think of one good reason we should continue to cart you guys around the country with us given that your network has declared the entire race over?'"

Well, well. Of course, NBC and everyone else pays to be on the flights. And further, NBC was hardly the only network declaring it's over.

ABC's George Stephanopoulos, the same George Stephanopoulos who, because he once worked for Pres. Clinton, has been accused of being cozy with the campaign, made the declaration much earlier than his competitors. But the call went nearly unnoticed because Stephanopoulos said it during the west coast update of World News. At 9:33 ET (6:33 PT), Stephanopoulos told anchor Charlie Gibson:

"There is no math for her to come back. There's no realistic path for the nomination now for Hillary Clinton. Barring some kind of revelation, that drops Obama from the race, he is going to be the nominee."

Wait, wait...what was that about CNN landing Sen. Barack Obama's, "first national TV interview since the Indiana and North Carolina primaries"?

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is currently en route to Washington, DC to interview Obama from the Newseum. The full interview airs tonight on Nightly News, but excerpts will air this afternoon on MSNBC. Wolf Blitzer's interview also takes place at the Newseum will take place this afternoon in The Situation Room studio, with CNN planning to air it in parts beginning at 4pmET. But will MSNBC get the Williams interview up first?

Gentlemen, start your engines...

> Update: This just in from Wolf and the team — pieces of the interview will begin airing in the 1pmET hour. Well...that was a quick race.

With the Democratic primary still on, The NYObserver's Felix Gillette looks ahead to the general election and the Google/YouTube presidential forum announced last month and planned for New Orleans Sept. 18.

If the candidates eventually agree to participate in the forum — which is no sure thing — will Google add a TV partner? "We're looking at all sorts of options that include either forming a partnership with a network, or figuring out a way to independently produce it," said [Google communications exec. Bob] Boorstin. In the latter case, Google would likely give away the feed for free to anyone who wants it.

When contacted recently by The Observer, one TV news executive said that any network, including his own, would jump at the opportunity to co-host the New Orleans debate with Google and Co. That said, he was skeptical that the candidates would ultimately agree to add another debate (with its heavy preparation time) to their jam-packed schedules.

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In the end, CBS News had it right, it just took more than five hours for competing TV networks to project Hillary Clinton the winner in Indiana, too. (With 99% reporting, Clinton won by 2% or 22,412 votes.)

About an hour after their call, CBS's director of surveys, Kathy Frankovic, told FishbowlDC, "We have an excellent decision team. In addition, we had access to some vote count information before the AP in critical locations."

• Related: The NYTimes' Jim Rutenberg describes the CBS declaration as, "an Early Call," and "a Lonely Stand."

• Related: Howard Kurtz in the WaPo writes, "As midnight approached, things were looking worse and worse for Hillary Clinton and CBS."

FishbowlDC's Patrick Gavin did some polling of his own today. He found out how some of you Newsers will spend this Super Tuesday III evening. Some highlights:

• ABC News' Martha Raddatz: I will be on the treadmill as soon as the polls close — watching while I run. It helps with all the excitement! And if there is no prediction...and it looks like a long night...time to open the wine.

• Sam Feist, CNN Political Director: I'll be watching from the nerve center of the CNN Election Center — an undisclosed location deep inside the bowels of the Time Warner Center. This is where the Best Political Team on Television has gathered for the evening. From our perch, not only do we have access to John King's magic wall and Wolf Blitzer's giant pie charts, but we can also keep close tabs on our friends and competitors and their 'walls'. Because at the end of the day, election coverage is all about the walls, isn't it?

• Steve Chaggaris, CBS News Director of Political Coverage: I'll be hanging out with TV's hardest-working Political Unit in the cozy confines of our Unit's office in Studio 47 — the CBS Evening News studio in NY — where we'll be fully anticipating waking up tomorrow to yet another Groundhog Day that is this Democratic presidential campaign.

• NBC News' Norah O'Donnell: I'll be in New York watching and reporting the exit polls from our virtual green room on studio 3K.

Is this the earliest CNN's John King has ever unleashed the "Magic Wall" on a primary day?



Will the competitor wall de magic, Bill Hemmer's "Bill Board" over at FNC, make an early appearance?