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General Election Coverage: After the Vote
beermole
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Interesting to see 5 Live is providing non stop election coverage from 2200 on Election night until 2000 on Friday including a five hour breakfast show (0500 - 1000) and what appears to be a Peter Allen marathon from 1000 to 1900. The latter seems surprising: I might have expected another double header and/or two separate programmes to break up the day.
Meanwhile Radio 4 is live overnight but otherwise normal programmes on Friday.
The schedule on LBC's website would have you believe there isn't even an election happening: just showing the standard (lack of) information for the normal line-up. Anyone know what LBC will actually be doing - and other stations that have a strong news content (BBC Wales, Scotland etc)?
Meanwhile Radio 4 is live overnight but otherwise normal programmes on Friday.
The schedule on LBC's website would have you believe there isn't even an election happening: just showing the standard (lack of) information for the normal line-up. Anyone know what LBC will actually be doing - and other stations that have a strong news content (BBC Wales, Scotland etc)?
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Apologies. Assumed LBC were doing Election coverage. Weird that they're not.
There is an election special between 10pm-5am with Iain Dale & Shelagh Fogarty:
.http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2015/05/03/conhome-diary-how-not-to-motivate-your-troops
An amusing thought did cross my mind. The German budget supermarket chain Aldi are having a "special buy" of a DAB/FM radio ( retro style ) on election day April 7 - no doubt ideal for listening to all the results on. But if the result isn't as listeners want, maybe they could return the radios as faulty ?
Me I'll be fast asleep, but good luck to all who stay up to listen !
Going by the trailers I've heard, "The Two Mikes" - Mike Graham and Mike Parry - will be hosting an election special edition of usual overnight show Extra Time between 1-6am. I had expected Parry, who joins Graham between 2-4am on Tue-Fri morning for what is basically amiable, knockabout banter about a variety of subjects, to be given the night off with Graham doing a more straight-laced election special, but it seems as if the Two Mikes will be giving their take on the night's counts from a less serious perspective. Whatever works for them I guess, surely few wanting straight-laced, serious coverage would tune in to talkSPORT given their resources compared to the alternatives available, so striking a compromise of appealing to the audience that usually tunes in to Parry & Graham while not ignoring the election probably makes sense to them.
The only occasions to compare what they'll be doing on this general election night to since talkSPORT went all-sport in April 2012 are the 2012 US Presidential election and the death of Nelson Mandela. On both occasions, the Extra Time show dropped all sporting output and went into serious rolling news mode until 6am. During the 2010 general election, Graham hosted an election special with talkSPORT's regional football correspondents being called upon to provide the latest news of the counts from their parts of the country as they came in, which is something I think they may do again. talkSPORT has a very strong network of regional sports correspondents, many of whom are capable of covering news and politics having done so in the past. They wouldn't be different to some of the BBC Local Radio stations I listen to in this respect, who also use sports correspondents as election night reporters.
Which is the greatest hits network? I lose track of who owns what these days.
Northsound 2
MFR 2
Tay 2
Forth 2
Clyde 2
Westsound
Metro 2
TFM 2
Aire 2
Hallam 2
Key 2
Viking 2
Rock Fm 2
City 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauer_City_2#Stations
I haven't heard anything about a phone-in, but there's a special overnight show on from 02:00-06:00.
I am pleased about this, thank you for letting us know. This is helpful given that the BBC are taking some time out tomorrow afternoon for the VE Day Anniversary.
Doubt it, it's specialist music stuff until 4am, so wouldn't expect any mention of election results until the 4:30am news. Radio 1's focus for reporting the results will be an extended Newsbeat at 12:30pm on Friday.
The TV coverage actually continues on BBC2 while the VE Day programme is on BBC1.
The only year Radio 1 did full coverage of the election was in 1992 when Nicky Campbell did a fully fledged election show between 10.30 and 3am (followed by Bruno Brookes playing Oh Happy Day). In fact that year you had Radio 2 doing their regular election show with Jimmy Young, Radio 3 staying on air until 4am with news and music and of course the main programme on Radio 4 so only Radio 5 didn't cover it.
Of course, Radio 2 did an election show up until 2005, but don't anymore, presumably because with Jeremy Vine unavailable there's no regular Radio 2 presenter available to do it.
Actually, BBC2 should be fine then. I can check whether BBC News (Freeview 130) will continuw with uninterrupted GE news.
Interesting that with the drive to engage young people with politics that Radio 1 only cover it on the Newsbeat shows, trying out an election show and maybe getting some of the leaders on the breakfast show would be a good why of engaging youngsters rather than sticking it all in their two daily 15 minute talk only news shows when many listeners may switch over to Capital.
Why can't Radio 1 mix current affairs in with the music? Nicky Campbell did this on drive for a few years under Matthew Bannister.
Radio 1 does miss a Campbell or Mayo who can entertain but also educate the listeners, I expect none of the current presenters have a clue about current affairs and their career path leads straight to Radio 2. Radio 1 should also look at hiring some young talent who could be the next 5 live presenters.
5 live simulcasting with Radio 4 from Midnight to 0500 but it looks very much a Radio 4 production. Really surprised that Iain Dale is on air this afternoon given there can be no political content.
I wonder if this was a sponsored notification?
Radio 1 have done plenty of election coverage, they had the Newsbeat debates and the leader interviews which got lots of coverage in the papers.
When Nicky Campbell did news and interviews on drivetime it was massively unpopular, even by the standards of the early days of the Bannister changes, and soon abandoned. In The Nation's Favourite Trevor Dann and Andy Kershaw talk about how it was woefully unsuited to the audience.
The Greatest Hits Network programme was promoted on the sister stations of stations in the network after every news bulletin.
Capital and Heart had special news bulletins. Heart's were longer.
Minster FM and Stray FM had separate election specials.
Non of the BBC's local radio stations that I could receive on FM joined the national election coverage.
Absolute Radio had special news bulletins.
I watched the television coverage, but occasionally tuned around the radio to see what was happening in terms of radio coverage.
Shortly after 6 AM, Radio Leeds had to go to four counts in exttremely quick succession. No time to hear much of the speeches of the winners. The reporters for Radio Leeds were:
Louise Martin - Leeds - 8 seats
Corinne Wheatley - Wakefield - 3 seats
Daragh Corcoran - Kirklees - 4 seats
Larry Budd - Calderdale - 2 seats
Richard Edwards - Keighley - 2 seats
Jenny Eells - Bradford - 3 seats