UK General Election

The speed isn't to do with the data connection - it's to do with journalistic principles. The BBC wait for the returning officer. If ITN are convinced from other sources (or by looking at the paper piles) that they can call it - they historically do.

Most broadcasters have corporate deals on SIMs with multiple providers, on tariffs not available to the general public. (Including some that aggregate data across all corporate SIMs)

Most bonding units have multiple modems available to them. They use multiple carriers and or in conjunction with a WiFi connection to send the video back. Essentialliy if you have one bad or slow connection through one carrier the other carrier can pick up the load.

Not sure where to post this, but BBC This Week local election special coming from Studio V - home of The One Show tonight.

Thread over here: https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/this-week-42636/

Now that makes perfect sense for election results where you can call a constituency one way or another without giving details of votes (i.e. Labour gain or Tory hold etc)

But I couldn't fathom how they got specific numbers from local counts at the referendum so much quicker than other broadcasters.

I have been at counts and in many cases the detailed numbers aren't known until they are announced by the returning officer to anyone other than the candidates and agents.

So still strikes me as odd.

Poor effort really for the BBC at least not do produce an overnights show for what was an unusually significant round of local elections where despite earlier comments here a good number of the counts were done overnight.

Question is - was an overnight programme planned, and then the general unexpectedly got in the way, and resources (and money) diverted to that instead?

If, no...

Suppose it was a balancing act editorally.
Do you plough on through the night until around 4am covering council counts where the result was pretty much predicted and unsurprising?

Or wait until the main Breakfast show giving time to package the story so far, then do the main results programme during the day, when you have more counts, and the Metro Mayor counts which provide extra material.
If the number of council seats declaring during the day outnumbed the ones that declared whilst dark - I can understand the logic in not getting Huw or David to put in a nightshift this time.

Hmm, BBC News show Jeremy Corbyn speech live whilst Sky show a pre-record of Theresa May visiting a factory. OK. Could make it a little less obvious guys!

Well, of course, the best way to see this would be to compare it to four years ago when the same round of local elections was taking place with all the same seats up. And that time - there was no overnight coverage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/london/2013/05/03

There was daytime coverage on BBC2, but less than this time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/schedules/england/2013/05/03

So hardly a new thing, nor evidence of cost-cutting or laziness.

Sky showed Corbyn's speech after.

I don't think Sky News will plummet to the depths of pure political bias as their sister network FOX News. I mean FOX news anchors need to have their tongues dry cleaned after all the ass licking of Donald Trump they do in any given day.

Can you imagine how bad Sky News would be if they used the same tactics and ass kissing as Fox News here in the UK. They would be out of business very soon.

I am used to US cable news channels, and watching them makes me glad we have just two BBC and Sky. Both have their bias and flaws but when it comes to the US, we are much better off.