 The 1952 edition was aired from August 14 weekly until the Presidential election on both CBS Television and the DuMont Television Network, and was sponsored on both networks by Westinghouse Electric.The show aired Thursday nights at 9 pm Eastern Time except for the special final pre-election edition which was aired on the Monday night before the election on Tuesday.Various spokesmen for both the Democratic and Republican parties were on hand to explain the positions, and claimed relative merits of, their respective groups.