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A quick round-up of the point where Obama was re-elected as US President.

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A quick round-up of the point where Obama was re-elected as US President this afternoon.

ABC News 24 / ABC1:

Seven / 7TWO:

Nine:

SBS ONE:

TEN:

Update: Network Ten spokesperson: “In addition to updates in our newsbreaks this afternoon, we will have extensive coverage of the US election across our TEN News At Five bulletins, The Project and TEN Late News this evening.”

“Sticking with Huey’s Kitchen offers our viewers an alternative ahead of the extensive US election coverage planned this evening.”

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  1. Have a look at the ratings. Ten’s News at Five rated 618k. The earlier bulletins on 9 and 7 got 292 and 221k.

    For the dedicated US Election specials the top one was 130k on ABC4. The bottom ones only rated 30k.

    Clearly Huey was the winner!

  4. I really don’t care that Channel 10 didn’t have coverage and good on them for not following the pack on this. Yes, it is a big news event but do we need to have the market saturated? While I don’t care for Huey’s kitchen in the slightest, the option was there.

  5. @Bogues – How wrong. ABC24 more than double their usual. ABC1 News way up. TEN News way down. Why would ABC2 kid’s channel suddenly surge? One, 11, 7mate and Go! had alternative programs for the parochial.

  6. @muppet @Paul007 – ABC24 was far and away the best coverage, as shown in their figures, and in ABC1’s 7pm news. The commercial FIFOs, doing their research on the plane over, compared to ABC’s well entrenched Washington team, showed.
    Sad that some people would actually prefer Huey’s Cooking and Judge Judy to a major news event.
    Also sad TEN again failed in the news credibility stakes. 7 used 7Two, 9 used GEM, TEN did nothing.

  8. Who cares if Australian people had people on the ground.

    If I want information about the US election I read quality journalism from American reporters who have been covering the campaign for over a year and know what they are talking about.

    I don’t want to watch Australians, who know less than I do, and who flew in at the last minute so they can look pretty and do live crosses to generate ratings.

    If you are really interested in politics these days the last place you want to look for superficial sound bites on FTA TV.

    Why cheer on the process of turning the world into trivialised entertainment?

  9. Re ABC24 – it depends which state you’re in, here in QLD most times the other FTA networks are an hour behind ABC24 because of DLS. But yesterday they all seemed to be taking live feeds from the US. That said TEN of course was behind, an example was when The Project started they said the president has just finished his speech, which had actually ended just on 1 hour before for us here in QLD.

    I was disappointed with TENs coverage or total lack of live coverage yesterday until the evening news. Especially when there are so many options to see something like this now.

  11. Ten has zero committment to news, if its not happening during their scheduled news hours then the viewer can wait.

    If a viewer is forced to other channels for almost every major news story what are the chances of them switching back when you have a bulletin on the air.

  12. @ J Bar
    Very true, it seems they were not obsessed with the USA election results, unlike our coming elections where virtually every network is obsessed with changing our present government.

    Or possibly the Murdoch father and son team were living in hope, that if Ten didn’t show it, it just might not happen or seem to happen, much like all the turmoil occurring within network Ten, where if someone only watched Ten, they would never know anything was happening.

    Then again if someone only watched Ten, they probably would not care, because they would have more than enough problems of their own.

  13. @Paul007

    You must have missed the giant brain & touch screen of Antony Green explaining that the US networks (& presumably the aussie networks which were following their lead) wouldn’t call states where polls were still open. ABC24 had no such qualms as they were only broadcasting locally & were calling states based on projections well before polling closed.

    Antony Green right on the money as always – national living treasure!

  14. Brilliantly played, Mr. Knox. And personally, considering how many (i.e. all) other options were covering the story, I begrudge Ten nought for offering an alternative.

  15. I was wondering why ABC News 24 seemed miles ahead of their coverage ie the numbers of states that the Democrats had won? For example on Ch 7 they were saying it was too close to call but ABC24 were saying Romney was pretty much done and dusted at the same time? Were the commercial networks delayed?

  16. I bet when the day time ratings come in tomorrow the two winners will be ABC2 and channel ten. The last thing a lot of people would want to watch on tv all day is the US election (I did, but then I don’t stay at home every day).

    When the winner was announced, Ten had a news break announcing the decision. (I was at the doctors at that time)

  17. I did notice that Seven decided to change from 7Two to the Main Channel at one stage but doesnt look like it was planned according to the guides (Here & Foxtel IQ).
    Wonder if they had complains that people couldnt find the coverage or something. Thought it was a odd decision to use 7Two in the first place….. not like much would have been missed on the Seven during the day.

  22. @jumpjakflash I think you meant Ten were the first channel to return to normal programming following the 9/11 attacks. This was at 6pm for The Simpsons.

  23. Spent the day watching ABC News24 coverage. Great scope, with corresponds in america, interviews in america and australian corresponds at american embassies.

  24. it’s really good ten provide an alternative. I watched Huey’s Kitchen today instead of boring blanket US election coverage. I was annoyed when i got home and turned on channel 9 at 3pm to watch Alive and Cooking (as programmed) and it was the election instead. Yawn.

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