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breaking news: BBC INTERACTIVE ON ELECTION NIGHT

(May 2001)

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SkyNews
KEY POINT: BBC digital television also offers an interactive election night service - and the famous BBC swingometer will appear in a digital format for the first time.

<<BBC1's results programme, called Vote 2001 - the Verdict, will be anchored by David Dimbleby, who will be assisted in the studio by Jeremy Paxman, Fiona Bruce, Peter Snow and Andrew Marr.

Like ITN, the BBC is assigning political correspondents to key politicians.

Jon Sopel will cover Tony Blair, Huw Edwards will follow William Hague, Sally Magnusson will cover Charles Kennedy, Kate Adie will follow Kenneth Clarke, Jeremy Vine will link up with Peter Mandelson and Anna Ford will be assigned to Boris Johnson.

BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5 will provide combined election night coverage, with the Today programme's James Naughtie, 5 Live's Jane Garvey and the BBC political correspondent Mark Mardell.

Kirsty Wark and Brian Taylor will anchor the BBC Scotland Election Night Special, with Betsan Powys and David Williams anchoring the coverage in Wales.

BBC radio will have more than 100 correspondents stationed at key counts and other venues, including a Reading nightclub and a pub in Devon.

BBC digital television also offers an interactive election night service - and the famous BBC swingometer will appear in a digital format for the first time.

The BBC has confounded predictions it may scrap its use of exit polls in its election coverage by confirming it will use an NOP exit poll.>>
http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,499173,00.html
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Ian
Can't you just link to Broadcast stories, and avoid calling them all 'Breaking News' - I'm sure most people have already read them on Broadcast!

But thanks anyway.
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SkyNews
It's actually from mediaguardian & the link is there. A put it here to 'alert' the forum of this!
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BBCnewsemployee
Yep, Digital Swingometer on DTT (ONdigital) from 10pm until the last result by pressing the red button on the handset. Automatically updates on screen.
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BBCnewsemployee
Also 500 new pages of digital text covering every consitiuancy in the UK.

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