Election Night: ABC1, ABC News 24.
Kerry O’Brien will lead live and continuous coverage of the 2010 Federal Election on both ABC1 and ABC News 24.
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ABC1 and ABC News 24 will both broadcast Australia Votes 2010, from 6pm (AEST) on Saturday August 21st.
Kerry O’Brien will lead live and continuous coverage from Canberra’s national tally room, joined by Tony Jones and Leigh Sales. There will be analysis and commentary from ABC Election Analyst Antony Green.
Guest panellists include Liberal Senator Nick Minchin and Labor Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Deputy Leader of the House, Stephen Smith. Tony Jones will interview a number of political guests and Leigh Sales will be presenting a summary report every half hour on the latest results.
ABC News 24’s Political Editor Chris Uhlmann will be reporting from Melbourne where Julia Gillard will be spending election night and Chief Political Correspondent Mark Simkin will be in Sydney with Tony Abbott. Throughout the night there will be crosses to candidates in key marginal seats right around the country, as well as to ABC News reporters updating what’s happening on the ground in key electorates.
ABC promises “comprehensive election night coverage, with precise results and a thorough assessment of the developments as they happen” and ” up-to-the-minute results with the ABC’s advanced computer system and graphics.”
Australia Votes 2010 will also be streamed live online at abc.net.au/news as well as on the ABC iPad and iPhone mobile apps plus on the big screen at Federation Square in Melbourne.
On Sunday August 22nd Insiders with Barrie Cassidy at 9am on ABC1 will have a full round-up of the election results, with political commentary and analysis on how the numbers fell.
(Australia Votes 2010 will be on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at 4pm in Western Australia, 5.30pm in the Northern Territory and South Australia and 6pm in the eastern states.)
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@Sydney2K ABC actually had the highest rating election coverage at the last federal election…so Nine is no longer dominant.
@ Sydney2K – Because Nine has the bogan factor. There are a lot of viewers who never watch ABC or SBS.
@ant – I agree, Minchin is boring. I propose Hewson – he was great on The Drum and Gruen last week.
@Sydney2k – perhaps the same reason TT & ACA have more viewers than 7.30 Report. Nine’s branding of being the ‘one’ and leading news has prevailed for as long as I have been alive – many decades! Methinks ABC is seen as too hardcore or high brow, by a large slice of the viewing population. Don’t think it will everchange.
Because people are morons.
And yet the Nine coverage generally outrates the ABC- why is that?
Will definitely be watching the ABC coverage.
Minch and Smith Again?! Bah.
When it’s an election, you’re on the ABC. I wonder if they’ll have the tally room going again, and O’Brien becoming enraged at the punters cheering at the stunts pulled by the commercial networks?
And of course, Antony Green. I remember when he first appeared, and he’s still the best.
@dave Not to mention Laurie’s sidekicks,those political heavy weight commentators Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic.
Go Big Red! ABC leads the way. I’d rather poke my eye out with a fork, than sit through Laurie Oakes. Antony Green calls it first every time!