US Election Night: Domestic Coverage

DV

dvboy 5 November 2008 3:59am

West coast state results due in a few minutes, will probably take it over 270.

ITV: NBC call the presidency.

DV

dvboy 5 November 2008 4:01am

BBC calls California, Washington to 273:141

ITV call presidency

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dvboy 5 November 2008 4:03am

Sky - Virginia to Obama, reports AP: Florida to Obama, one network calls presidency. 220:141

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flaziola 5 November 2008 4:03am

According to all networks. Obama has won. Good night everyone.

DV

dvboy 5 November 2008 4:05am

I don't understand why ITV's graphics come off when they take NBC pictures.

Sky still need to update their counter. BBC have 297:141. ITV 284:146.

JC

JCB 5 November 2008 4:06am

It's like New Years Eve across America. Spectacular scenes. Congratulations America.

DV

dvboy 5 November 2008 4:07am

Sky have a split screen, Phoenix and Chicago, expecting McCain to come out and speak before Obama I think, ITV and BBC have cameras on Chicago.

Best way to show it is split screen I think.

DV

dvboy 5 November 2008 4:08am

I presume NBC will claim to have called it first, as ITV reported they called it at 3:59.

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flaziola 5 November 2008 4:14am

BBC One have their own ticker it seems.

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mark Founding member 5 November 2008 4:16am

It'd be a bit petty for any of the networks to claim the first call on this - it was just a case of waiting for the polls to close on the west coast. Anyone could have called it earlier, but it would have been pretty bad form.

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McMahon 5 November 2008 4:48am

On the BBC front, has Jeremy Vine danced to hip-hop music again whilst trying to act serious? [BBC UK Election 2005]
This is desperately unfunny. Because of that, I deliberately dodged BBC's US Election and stuck with the far-better-in-presentation ITV.

On a similar note, I just remember the 1992 US Election, where Bill Clinton beat George Bush [Senior] and the media briefly touted Clinton as a charasmatic Democrat, quite like Barack. I just thought I share that useless piece of information to you. I think, if I can remember, ITN's Alastair Stewart fronted this on ITV. David Dimbleby on BBC.

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rob Founding member 5 November 2008 7:03am

I'm just astonished that for a forum dedicated to television, there appears to be only one screenshot in 21 pages of this thread (Thanks to Asa

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