The coverage begins on Tuesday November 2 at 10pm with a two-hour election results preview from Atlanta and will finish on November 3 at 11pm as Jonathan Mann reviews the wider implications of the election results.
At midnight on Tuesday, when the first polls close, CNN reporters and the network's senior analysts Bill Schneider and Jeff Greenfield will be presenting real-time vote information, exit polls and analysis of key state races across the country in front of the state-of-the-art 96-screen video wall in Times Square, New York.
There will also be live reporting from the Bush-Cheney headquarters in Washington DC and the Kerry-Edwards headquarters in Boston, as well as reactions and viewpoints from around the globe including London, Paris, Baghdad, Hong Kong, Berlin and New Delhi.
Rena Golen, senior vice-president at CNN International, said: "The election is being as closely watched outside the US as it is inside, because of the major foreign policy issues at stake."
Earlier this week, CNN rival BBC World, the BBC's global commercial service, unveiled details of its US election coverage, which will include a special edition of 'Question Time' featuring film-maker and author Michael Moore and former Bill Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal.
BBC election night coverage, on November 2, will include a live six-hour results programme including US and international reaction. Hourly news bulletins will support this coverage.
BBC coverage will be extended online while will offer live video streams, photo galleries, countdown clocks for polls in each state and exit polls throughout the day.
CNN.com's unique "Your Races" feature users can customise online experience by choosing up to 20 different presidential, federal and gubernatorial races.
The George W Bush v John Kerry election is expected to generate the largest voter turnout in American history because foreign policy, in particular the next stages of the Iraq War, will be determined.
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