US Presidential Election 2016

I'm watching WGAL from Pennsylvania at the moment and the local counties so far are all for Trump, so I wouldn't be surprised if Pennsylvania gets called in the next hour for Trump which would give him another 20 votes and within a hairline of the magical 270.

Edit - Double Post.

The Fox affiliate in Pa keeps interrupting Shep briefly with commercials or episodes of The Simpsons, presumably by their automated playout.

Jeremy Vine sure loves his virtual reality studios!

Unprecedented events... That we haven't seen Carol Kirkwood yet. They even broke off for the weather on the morning of brexit!

There's snow in much of Yorkshire too. You know it's the end of the world when the BBC are too preoccupied to cover snow

The first of 3 parts of ITV News' coverage of the results. This part also has last night's News at Ten. The other two parts are being uploaded, and will be available soon.

I think most of the networks had a good setup.

CNN was best for the results, despite bear getting over excited.

Fox News was best for discussion.

BBC was ok, as was Sky. Adam Boulton getting abuse on Twitter. Some people are nasty.

Did not watch the others.

here's how the Andrew Neil coverage came off air on BBC One.


(apologies for the overlays)


Breakfast didn't make an appearance!

It did seem laughable at Sky News doing their own call on the states, which came just after NBC or one of the other networks called it.

I did enjoy Sky's coverage and watched it the most having switched between ITV and BBC. Good Morning Britain were on the ball, first to say Trump had won, via PA and Clinton had conceded.

Sky News' calls came from multiple sources, including our correspondents on the ground. Not just networks.

As for GMB calling Trump's win, the Press Association likely took that from America's The Associated Press - as most, if not all of the other calls they made. They likely only called that because an American wire agency did. Laughable, or just relying on what naturally better-resourced American outlets are saying?

I think all_night was meaning that GMB were first (amongst UK outlets?) to report that The Associated Press had called the result, rather than called it themselves.