2015 Election and the Leaders Debates

Interesting all these debates have been carried by the ebu I haven't seen these from other European countries so maybe these debates is a UK thing?

Also have the other European broadcasters shown these debates, they can't have surely?

No it was agreed to before then. Patrick Foster of the radio times reported it on Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/patrickfoster2/status/588379180590505984?p=v

Interesting that in the (very) provisional schedules ITV will stick with their election coverage longer than BBC1. BBC1's coverage is scheduled to wrap up at 1pm on the Friday, while ITV goes through to 4pm.

I reckon if we had an election like 2001 or 2005, then as they did at that time they'd give up at 10.30am, this was the plan in 2010 also, however their coverage overran on the Friday morning and they had extra bulletins on the day IIRC. I guess they're on air until 4pm to make things easier, especially if the result is what it's expected to be.

I guess the BBC will just opt onto BBC1 after 1pm where necessary for any updates, specials etc.

Friday will be a talkfest, bearing in mind that 500+ seats now declare overnight. An editorial decision will be necessary around 11am as to whether a result is likely on the day, if as seems likely, Cameron will be PM over the weekend, pending negotiations, then a 1pm close would seem sensible. With a few updates in the afternoon, leading to a 5pm - 7pm news block.

For those of you interested, there is the Election theme rotating for about 3 minutes at the start of this video. I'm not sure if it is the same as 2010s but to me it sounds like there is a slight tweak to it.

It's pretty standard for big news events to go on the EBU News Events channel.

Schedules are totally pointless that day. I expect the outcome of the election will dictate scheduling & events thereafter.

That's the first 45 seconds of the 'close' theme. I suspect they needed something to play out on the feed so just played the closing sequence before the end logo / graphics formed and just badly looped it.

In 2010, when did the BBC1 results show go off air?

You might find it here: from p40 onwards.
http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/election-night-2010-31016/

To save you searching: bbc.co.uk/programmes is usually a reasonably good reflection of what happened; it says the first non-news programme was Flog It! at 1545.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/london/2010/05/07

It's not infallible though: Bio-Dimbleby remained in the chair until 0900, which is when Jon Sopel & Sian Williams took over.