Anchored by public radio's Peabody Award-winning host Brian Lehrer, POTUS 2016 is already airing in the New York region where it is helping to satisfy the large appetite that public television viewers have for serious election-related coverage. While The Newshour and Washington Week do excellent segments on the campaigns, we have found viewers seek more, and something different from the commercial network offerings which they find shallow, sensationalist and unsatisfying to their sensibilities. POTUS 2016 is unique for being a regularly scheduled program solely devoted to the campaign season: The program has a rotating group of regulars who know Brian Lehrer well from previous radio and TV appearances. Among those to be invited for 2016 appearances: Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief Forbes magazine; Gail Collins, New York Times Columnist; Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior editor for the Atlantic; Law Professor Zephyr Teachout, campaign finance expert and former gubernatorial candidate, Mark Hugo Lopez of the Pew Research Center. We will also invite thinkers outside the political arena such as author Malcolm Gladwell.
