• CNN is trying to one-up NBC in the “let’s project electoral votes on buildings” contest. CNN will power lights showing Obama and Romney’s electoral totals on the Empire State Building. You can see a photo of the spire as it will look tonight here. Unlike 30 Rock, The Empire State Building wont have any CNN branding.

• FBN is promoting its election coverage in the heart of New York finance. Yesterday Charlie Gasparino rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, while today Liz Claman will ring the NASDAQ closing bell, and will anchor her show from its MarketSite in Times Square.

• MSNBC’s Chris Matthews took over a segment on “Now with Alex Wagner” today on NBC’s set in Rockefeller Center (sorry, “Democracy Plaza“), taking the opportunity to chastise anyone who doesn’t vote, or doesn’t vote for a Democrat or Republican

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FOX Business Network will provide live continuous election night coverage on Tuesday beginning at 5pmET hosted by anchor and Managing Editor Neil Cavuto. FBN’s Stuart Varney and Lou Dobbs will also take part. Also, Liz Claman will report live from the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square. Gerri Willis will be live from the Romney campaign headquarters in Boston while FBN Washington Correspondent Rich Edson will provide coverage from President Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago. Also, Melissa Francis will be live from Florida and Adam Shapiro live from Nevada, two important swing states.

The New York Stock Exchange opened at 9:30am, after being closed for two days due to Hurricane Sandy. With power out to most of downtown Manhattan — including mediabistro HQ, we’re all working from home, or other’s homes — some of the data is not displaying as normal. CNBC’s Melissa Lee assuring viewers, “There’s nothing wrong with the trading on the Dow. It’s just the data feed coming into this one screen on the exchange. Most of the others ones are black because we’re running on generator power.” FBN aired an opening bell special report with Neil Cavuto, Liz Claman and Charlie Gasparino.

The last time the NYSE closed for two days due to weather was in 1888.

Fox Business Anchor Liz Claman returned to her old stomping ground of Cleveland, Ohio this week (Claman is a former anchor at WEWS). In an interview with the Plain Dealer, Claman explained why she made the trip out (mid)west:

“Instead of sitting there, watching every tick-by-tick movement of every stock, why not descend on great American cities and see how they are open for business? People need to know how much originated in Cleveland and how much Cleveland still has to offer. We’re going to show them.

Claman is a die-hard Cleveland Browns fan, and we hear that new Browns owner Jimmy Haslam changed his travel plans just so he could appear on Claman’s show this week, his first cable appearance since taking over the NFL team. Claman’s show is originating from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today, and Jacob’s Pavilion tomorrow.

• James Rosen has re-signed his Fox News Channel contract, inking a multi-year deal that keeps him in his current role as chief Washington correspondent through the 2016 election. Rosen, who joined FNC in 1999, will also continue to host his online program, “The Foxhole.”

• Liz Claman is competing today in the New York City Triathlon today for the fourth time. Claman is participating this year with Fox News contributor Chris Hahn, and the pair will raise money for Building Homes for Heroes, a nonprofit that constructs homes for severely disabled veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

• Geraldo Rivera will host “Geraldo at Large” tonight from Jerusalem. For the special, which airs tonight at 10pmET, he went to Israeli army outposts along the Gaza strip.

For Fox Business anchor Liz Claman, who has been a Los Angeles Kings fan since childhood, today is a good day. Her Kings rule the ice.

“I have my Kings purple on,” she told TVNewser shortly before going on the air this afternoon.

Claman grew up in Southern California with a Canadian father who loved hockey. When Los Angeles got an NHL franchise in 1967, he bought season tickets for the family.

“That became our childhood,” she said. “School nights didn’t matter. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Mondays, whenever there was a game, my dad was bundling us all up and throwing us in the station wagon — yes, we had a station wagon — and driving us to Inglewood, California.”

Fast forward to 2012. The Kings are playing for their first Stanley Cup since the 1992-93 season (they lost to the Montreal Canadiens in five games) against the New Jersey Devils. Claman lives in

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Liz Claman is the latest Fox anchor to make a guest appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” The Fox Business Network anchor will join the roundtable on Sunday. A few weeks ago, Greta Van Susteren went on the show. And perhaps the most prominent Fox News appearance on ABC’s “This Week” came a couple years ago, when Roger Ailes was a guest as Barbara Walters filled in as moderator.

Of all cross-network talent bookings, ABC and Fox News share the most. Bill O’Reilly appearing on “The View” or “Good Morning America,” can be as common as Walters or Diane Sawyer turning up on “The O’Reilly Factor”.

• What has FBN’s Liz Claman learned from her experience interviewing Warren Buffet? “Learn how to communicate,” she tells Girls Just Wanna Have Funds. “This helps us not only in saving, but in all aspects of our lives!”
• “Fox & Friends” celebrated Brian Kilmeade‘s birthday with a cake on the show this morning. “We have no plans for my birthday,” Kilmeade told his co-hosts. “I just want to get through it.”
• The “Power Player of the Week” on “Fox News Sunday” yesterday was “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek. “Yes, I have been thinking about retiring,” he told Chris Wallace. “But I’m torn, because I enjoy doing the show so much.”

This weekend is Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting, and the business networks have coverage planned for the company, led by billionaire Warren Buffett.

Becky Quick will be in Omaha for CNBC, running through the weekend. FBN’s Liz Claman will be reporting from outside the meeting this weekend, and gives tips to attendees here.

Of course Buffett will also be giving interviews, both FBN and CNBC are claiming “exclusives.”

Buffett will be appearing first on CNBC Monday morning, where he will be a guest on “Squawk Box” for all three hours of the program from 6-9 AM. At 9:30 AM, Buffett will be appearing in a joint interview with Microsoft founder Bill Gates on FBN.

CNN’s Jeff Kepnes has just gotten a promotion, to Executive Producer of Special Events for the network.

New York-based Kepnes, who reports to Kate Lunger, has been heading up the network’s special events coverage recently including the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Anderson Cooper‘s New Year’s Eve special, and Black in America town halls. Kepnes joined CNN in 2003 as senior producer of “Paula Zahn Now.” He’d worked for Fox News and, before that, at MSNBC where he was senior producer of “Equal Time with Paul Begala and Oliver North.”

Kepnes is married to Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman. The couple has two children.