Network Key Points

Sky had it on the bottom of the screen when it came in they were in the middle of a 3 way live broadcast.
More to the point where the hell are ITV now?
Sunderland North declared and they have totally missed it!

The BBC coverage is boring already and that out of focus plasma screen is getting to me!

SE. Sky's coverage has so far had more OBS than anyone.

Very true - they were talking to, what I can only assume, is the stat man.

That was awful on ITV's part.
Sky have the most useful graphics and can flash up info at all times, ITV have amazing VR graphics but not overly impressed with the rest.
Sky also have Paddy Ashdown in the studio, very humourous.
Sky will not get the big guests before the others (in studio) because they are further away from Central London and Westminster than the others.
ITN should have the best in studio panel, sadly nothing as yet.
BBC have huge amounts of people in the studio but it gets boring hearing them again.

Hey, we've only just started! - Especially for Sky, the Sky broadcast goes on until 7pm tomorrow!
ITV should have flashed the graphic up on the screen. Like Sky did with the Scottish one.
Saying 'LAB HOLD SUNDERLAND NORTH'.

Oh god it's Kenneth Clarke

Yeh 7pm is huge overkill on Sky's part, I'll be well bored of it all by then. I don't think we'll be seeing an in studio panel on ITV, they've gone for a different style of programme, more OB's, more stats, more VR stuff, but we should have more Mary.

I have to say ITV would be perhaps the best if they had more studio panels and better graphics.
This spinning BBC V is killing me now!!!!!

Ohh Woodward on Sky!
Big unscheduled interview alert!!!


The thing is Sky are in the process of a relaunch so they may be doing things to the studio in that 22 hours!
They also want to account for the recounts, which last time came in at 6.18pm on the next day!
The VR stuff is excellent on ITV but the thing with VR graphics is that they are very slow to update.

Sky News webfeed is actually working well!

Anyone watching ITN News Channel? Thought not.
CNN's coverage is so far awful, don't subject yourself to it!

Yeh, the BBC spinning V is just not necessary.

ITV result calling is at the moment faster than either of the other two.
Sky and BBC doing quite well although BBC seem to have slowed down in results calling in past few mins.
It is of course the actual annoucement of the winner that matters! and Sky usually wins that.
Coverage from all networks has been quite good so far, I am getting bored of the BBC coverage though.
ITV results calling (because of stringers) is very good, as usual.

ITV online newsflash is IMO better than the BBC's desktop score

Mark Austin seemed to be getting a bit rattled about Jonathan Dimblebys 'Survivor' jokes during his OB.