US Presidential Election day: BBC World News

BBC News in the US recently announced its coverage of the US Presidential Election night next week for international audiences.

Anchored from New York and Washington, coverage will include analysis with a global perspective from the BBC’s 2016 election campaign team.

BBC News US (@bbcnewsus) Election Night coverage:

There will be ongoing coverage of U.S election night on the BBC’s 24 hour news channel BBC World News, bbc.com/US2016, BBC World Service radio, the BBC News app and social media outlets. Special coverage will also broadcast across BBC outlets in the UK.

Highlights will include:
24/7 TV:
In the final days ahead of the election GMT with Lucy Hockings (@LucyHockingsBBC) will be live from Washington on November 8 at 11:00pm AEDT on BBC World News, keeping audiences around the globe up to date on the very latest twists and turns in the campaign, as well as getting the wider global view on events in America.

Election Day:
On Election Day, from 8:00am AEDT on Wednesday November 9, there will be a rolling U.S Election News special on BBC World News.

At 9:00am on BBC World News, the BBC’s U.S news programme, World News America with Katty Kay (@kattykaybbc), will be in New York with a show featuring special guests, as well as hearing from American voters from across the country about the issues that matter to them.

From 10:30am AEDT, the BBC’s Andrew Neil and Katty Kay will present live coverage from an election studio overlooking Times Square, New York. Andrew and Katty will be joined by Democrat and Republican election analysts to discuss the results as they come in. The BBC’s Emily Maitlis will be there to keep track of the races in key states on a giant touchscreen as the votes are counted and Jeremy Vine will be analysing the exit polls with eye catching virtual reality graphics.

BBC correspondents will be based at the key swing states to bring audiences the news from those election battlegrounds; while the BBC’s Jon Sopel and Laura Trevelyan will be reporting from within the Democratic and Republican Party’s headquarters.

Results:
After the results are announced, BBC World News will provide comprehensive coverage of all the reaction, and key developments throughout 9 November, both within the U.S and globally. The BBC’s Lucy Hockings will be anchoring BBC News US Election coverage throughout the day analysing the results and charting the changes as the world wakes up to a new U.S. president. The BBC’s Michelle Fleury in New York will also be getting reaction from the business world on the result and looking at what this result could mean for the U.S economy.

Katty Kay will be anchoring World News America from 9:00am on Thursday November 10, with a special edition of the program focusing on how the White House was won; with analysis of the challenges facing the new President-Elect, alongside the wider international reaction to the result.

BBC.com/US2016
The BBC’s dedicated election 2016 page: bbc.com/US2016, is a one stop destination for all of the BBC’s election night coverage including a special rolling live blog tracking all the latest results and reaction throughout the evening. Digital highlights will include an Electoral College calculator, text and video explainers on all the key issues and a guide to the battleground states. The BBC’s Anthony Zurcher (@awzurcher ) will be providing analysis and commentary as the results roll in and the audience will be able to join the debate through a series of Facebook Lives.

There will be ongoing coverage of the results, including analysis of the successful campaign, the challenges the new president will face uniting a divided country, as well as analysis on what the outcomes mean for the rest of the world.