Dateline: Los Angeles

Weather: Still cool and overcast. This is Southern California?

Climate in the International Ballroom, Beverly Hilton Hotel: not yet freezing.

On this fourth of four days of presentations by cable, CNN is here, and we’re in the big ballroom, where the broadcast networks will hold all their sessions next week. Cable networks sometimes use the smaller Beverly Hills Ballroom, but the Turner Networks are in for 4 hours, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m., so we can settle in for a marathon of panels jumping from election coverage to “Star Wars: Clone Wars” (Cartoon Network) to two new TNT dramas.

The room probably holds 300, but not comfortably. There are about 100 of us here for CNN, and I’ve chosen a seat on the second of three tiers of tables, in convenient reach of a power strip to plug in the Asus. (Have you seen an Asus? It’s the cutest little mini-computer that does many things the big guys do, and mine — which is lime sherbet green — has inspired a lot of ooh’s and ah’s from my fellow critics, who like to pet it.)

From my seat, I have a good view of the first panel, from CNN: president Jon Klein, whom I’ve known for years, since I wrote a positive review of one of his shows for CBS News and he quoted it back to me; chief national correspondent John King; senior political analyst Gloria Borger; White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux; and Washington bureau chief David Bohrman. A huge Wolf Blitzer is looking over my right shoulder; he’s on satellite from Washington because of a pulled hamstring that made it hard to travel.

They are giving lots of good info I will use later, but there aren’t a lot of laughs until a reporter asks a contentious question about all the filler and blather on cable news when there’s no actual news. The CNN folks take mild offense at being compared to the Golden Globe pre-show on E!

Next up is Soledad O’Brian for her four-hour CNN series “Black in America,” debuting July 23. Again: Important. Again: Not scintillating blogging material. But hey, it’snot all glitz and glamour out here.

During a 15-minute break, I search desperately for, and find, a Diet Coke. Next up, “Clone Wars”!