Straight-shooting C-SPAN is bringing a new era of political coverage to this month’s elections in Iowa and New Hampshire.

In unleashing a broad arsenal of media sites and news-gathering tools, the nonprofit service created by cable outlets in 1979 is promising to cover all the angles and speeches by the candidates with its trademark snark-free, listening-in style.

“We have more ways than ever for the C-SPAN audience to watch our coverage of the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary,” the outlet’s Political Editor Nate Hurst told Secrets.

“In addition to being on TV and online, now you can find our video on our free video mobile app. We’re on more social media platforms. And now we even have a drone in Iowa. For the first time, our audience can watch the presidential campaign unfold on the ground — and from above,” he added.

C-SPAN this week described to Secrets its plan to provide blanket coverage leading up to Monday’s Republican caucuses in Iowa and the New Hampshire primaries a week later.

In expanding its digital, online, and social platforms, including a new C-SPAN Now video app, C-SPAN’s footprint will be bigger than in previous election years.

Among the key elements of its plan for Iowa will be live coverage of the “candidates’ closing arguments” and Election Day historical analysis in its “CaucusCast.”

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Highlights:

• From Friday to the caucuses, it will provide live nighttime coverage of candidates and analysis from Iowa reporters and caucus experts. Ditto for the New Hampshire primary.
• Its “Washington Journal” feature that takes calls from viewers will originate from Iowa and New Hampshire the days leading up to each election.
• As the elections take place, its “CaucusCast” of two experts will give historical context and real-time, play-by-play analysis.
• C-SPAN teams on the ground in Iowa will collect “Voices 2024,” short video vignettes from voters discussing the issues and candidates.