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Election day 2010 – it’s here!

If you want to keep up to date with the progress of the count on the night, there will be plenty of choices. If you don’t, then you still have plenty of options, thanks mostly to free to air digital channels and Pay TV.

Here’s the guide as to what will be on TV Saturday August 21. Updated with programming changes as of August 21.

Nine:
Virtually within seconds of the election being called, Nine sent out a press release spruiking their election night coverage featuring Laurie Oakes, amongst others. On Nine, election coverage will start from 5pm with a one hour special looking at the campaign and how the two leaders have faired. After the 6pm news, Nine will broadcast live from the tally room with expert opinion and analysis through the night. SA and WA viewers will see the coverage live.

Weekend Today will be extended to 10am with both Julia and Tony appearing on the show.

Read more about Nine’s coverage here.

Check out Nine’s promo for their Election Coverage here.

Seven:
Seven will have a special Saturday edition of the 4.30pm news at 4.30pm (eastern states only). This will be followed by live coverage from 5pm and then 6.30pm after their 6pm news. Seven’s election night coverage will also feature up to date news, information and views as the counting continues through the night. Seven’s coverage will be live across the nation, meaning it starts at 4.30 in SA and 3pm in WA.

Weekend Sunrise is extended to 10am.

Read more about Seven’s election night coverage here.

ABC1 and ABC News 24:
Live coverage starts at 6pm eastern, 5.30pm in SA/NT and 4pm in WA on both ABC1 and ABC News 24, and will be hosted by Kerry O’Brien from Canberra’s Tally room. ABC’s coverage will also stream live online. For more information about ABC’s election night coverage, click here.

ABC News 24
Apart from the coverage after 6pm that airs on ABC1 as well, ABC News 24 have abandoned regular programming for 2 days to bring non-stop election coverage over Saturday Aug 21 and Sunday Aug 22. Read more here.

Ten:
Ten news at Five will actually be live around the country on Saturday August 21, meaning it will air at 4.30pm in SA and 3pm in WA. Ten’s news will be a special 90 minute bulletin covering the days’ events and will be followed by a VERY special 7PM Project called: The 7PM Election Project.

In eastern states, The 7PM Election Project will be seen at 6.30pm, followed by AFL at 7.30pm. After the AFL at 11pm eastern, will be a one hour news special updating election results.

AFL on that night is Adelaide Vs Collingwood – seen at 7.30pm in Melbourne and Brisbane, Live at 6.30pm in Adelaide and 5.30pm in Perth. In Sydney, it’s the Sydney Swans Vs Western Bulldogs from 7.30pm.

The live AFL in Adelaide also means they will miss out on half of the 7PM Election Project.

Ten In summary:
East / SA / WA
5.00 / 4.30 / 3.00 Ten News
6.30 / 6.00 / 4.30 The 7pm Election Project
7.30 / 6.30 / 5.30 AFL
10.30 / 10.00 / 8.30 Ten News Election Wrap Up
11.30 / 11.00 / 11.30 Movie Idiocracy.
Note: Perth has another movie TBA at 9.30pm between the news and Idiocracy.

Note also: Before the Game will not be seen that night.

Read more about Ten’s coverage here.

SBS ONE:
Updated. World News Australia will air from 6.30 – 7.30pm, followed by Monster Moves at 7.30pm.

Then Saturday Aug 21, 8.30pm – 10:30pm AEST: News anchor Anton Enus and Chief Political Correspondent Karen Middleton host a live panel program as the results come in, joined by expert political commentators.

PAY TV.

Sky news Australia
Naturally Sky News Australia will provide comprehensive multi-channel and interactive election coverage, spear-headed (ha!) by their political editor David Speers – who will no doubt need some well earnt time off after the election. On the night, Sky News will offer election coverage on both channels 601 and 602.

Sky News’ is also advertising rolling coverage from 5.30am.

To read more about SKY NEW’s most comprehensive election coverage in Australian history (their words, not mine), click HERE. 

All other Pay TV channels business as usual – as you’d expect!

Free to Air Digital Channels
If you want to escape all the election coverage on the main channels, then check out what is on the digital channels.

ONE – Your election night sports fix.
Pretty much business as usual on ONE, covering the AFL the same time as Ten, with Sports Tonight at 7pm eastern and the AFL post game show after the AFL.

At 11.25pm eastern, see live German Football as Hoffenheim take on Werder Bremen.

SBS TWO – Docos and movies.
Programming includes the Squiz at 6pm, A Fork in Australia at 6.30, Cooking in the Danger Zone at 7pm and History of Britain at 7.30. A French murder mystery called Spiral at 8.30, followed by the French movie Lemming at 9.30. German movie 666: In Bed with the Devil follows at 11.45.

7TWO – Best of British night.
Business as usual on 7TWO with Doctor Finlay at 6.30, Heartbeat 7.30, Lewis at 8.30 and Minder at 10.30.

GO! – for Saturday night movies.
Updated. Movies on GO on August 21 include Blast From the Past from 6pm followed by Wedding Crashers at 8.30pm. Late change. At 11pm, if you missed the premiere of Spartacus: Blood and Sand on Wednesday night, you can see an encore at 11pm Saturday night.

ABC2 – Entertainment election escape!
Programming includes IPC Swimming highlights from 6, then Heartland at 6.45 and Heart and Soul at 7.35. The 1968 movie Once Upon a Time in the West is on at 8.30 followed by Gulliver’s Travels – made in 1939 – at 11.10.

ABC3 – Children’s election escape!
6pm The Twisted Whiskers Show followed by Escape from Scorpian Island at 6.30. Then it’s Rush TV from 7 and Good Game at 7.25. From 7.45pm see four episodes in a row of Dragon Booster before the channel closes for the night at 9.10.

I’ve always wondered why ABC3 doesn’t run later on weekend as many kids stay up past 9pm on a Saturday.

Note: All programming here subject to change by the respective networks. All details above prepared using advanced guides and press releases provided by the various networks.

Tonight at 6.00pm, Nine News will disclose the revealing results from the second Galaxy Poll conducted on Wednesday evening, July 28 exclusively for the Nine Network.

The findings, based on a sample of 800 voters throughout Australia, will provide a scorecard on the campaign performance of the Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott, three-weeks out from the federal election on August 21.

Kylie Minogue has landed in Australia as part of both a promotional tour and to see her family including sister Dannii Minogue and Dannii’s new son Ethan.

Kylie landed in Melbourne this morning, just before 5am, taking the regular exit at the airport with her fellow passengers. She stopped to sign a few autographs, before being greeted by Daryl Somers and Plucka Duck.

Kylie is set to appear on this Wednesday’s Hey Hey It’s Saturday, the last show before it is rested for an indefinite time frame. Minogue will perform live two songs from her new album. She has been a fan of Hey Hey from the 80’s, and made a live appearance on one of the Reunion shows last year.

Nine News of course wasted no time seizing a cross promotion opportunity featuring the story and making mention of her appearance on Hey Hey this week.

But, in what is becoming more and more prevalent in Australian television news coverage – mostly with channel Nine though – Nine splashes “See it first on Nine” across the middle of the screen making it very difficult for other networks to use their footage without letting the fact it came form Nine shine through and making it very annoying for the average viewer to watch.

During an ad break soon after the Minogue story, Nine promoted as story on A Current Affair as exclusive, with an ACA exclusive watermark plastered over the centre of the screen.

The practice of excessive water marks on TV screens or pictures to show the true owner of the original footage is increasing world wide, with some new services in places like India – a very competitive market – showing up to 30 watermarks on the screen at once in a lattice formation.

It is also common in the paparazzi based celebrity magazine industry where we, at the moment, see any of the pictures associated with Mel Gibson’s ex plastered with the bright red logo of radar online – a celebrity news web site. Others that frequent celebrity pictures include TMZ and Perez Hilton.

On election night 2010, as history is made, the Nine Network will give Australia the best results service on television, from the best team of journalists and commentators.

Laurie Oakes, Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic will lead Nine’s coverage LIVE from a new set in the tally room in the nation’s capital Canberra.

Tracy Grimshaw will be reporting LIVE with the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.

Peter Overton will be LIVE with the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott.

Liz Hayes will host a LIVE election evening event with Australia’s top political brains and opinion formers.

Ben Fordham – Campaign Confidential.  From Monday Ben will be on the Today Show each weekday, reporting all the behind-the-scenes news from Canberra and the campaign. Ben will also be reporting on how social networking is affecting the campaign, and keep our viewers up-to-date minute by minute via Twitter and NineMSN.

Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson proved their political prowess with 8.5 hours of LIVE television earlier this month as the “Spillard” unfolded on national morning television. Karl drove to Canberra at 2am to report from Parliament House, whilst Lisa was in studio with a host of guests dissecting all the breaking coverage as it unfolded.

Laurie Oakes, with over 40 years of experience in Canberra, showed yet again as recently as Thursday why he’s the best political journalist in Australia, with his bombshell question to the Prime Minister at her first address to the National Press Club.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found that TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd (TCN) failed to provide captioning during episodes of Nine News and RPA broadcast in July 2009.

As a result of the investigation, TCN in consultation with the ACMA, has agreed to the implementation of several remedial measures. These include enhanced quality control and supervision, targeted ‘spot’ audits and reports to the ACMA on the outcome of these. TCN will also organise regular meetings with the caption provider and other stakeholders to review and resolve issues relating to transmission and quality.TCN has also undertaken to upgrade its captioning transmission monitoring to allow for quick identification and resolution of transmission problems.

The ACMA adopts a graduated approach to compliance and enforcement and has taken into account that this is the first investigation resulting in breach findings for TCN in relation to its core service. TCN’s performance over the coming months will be closely monitored by the ACMA in this regard.

The ACMA is committed to ensuring that all Australians have access to quality electronic media. To this end, the ACMA will facilitate a captioning workshop with all relevant stakeholders to encourage discussion on the provision of captioning services that meet the needs of Australia’s deaf and hearing impaired community.

More information about the forum will be available shortly from the ACMA website.

Nine have abandoned regular day time programming today to continue coverage of the day’s events in Canberra. Karl Stefanovic continues to report, despite being on TV from 5am this morning.

Even this morning, Today started at 5am instead of the usual 5.30am to cover both the political upheaval and keep Today viewers up to date with the soccer result of Australia Vs Serbia. Nine’s coverage is amde to be part of a very extended Today show.

Seven’s daytime schedule has also been thrown out, with continuing coverage using “The Morning Show” and its hosts. Maybe they shold call it “The Afternnon Show” now?

On ABC1, the midday news continues, with regular programming from 12.30pm abandoned for now.

Ten continues to show their usual day time line up. Not a bad idea, so at least there is an option for those who now may be “news’ed” out by the events now.

Back to ABC – what a shame ABC News 24 was not ready to go yet – what a day it would have been for the new free to air 24 hour news channel to start. Even if they were nearly ready, they could have gone to air today with what will be one of those big political news stories we will here about for years to come.

So far, it looks like ABC News 24 will not start until the second half of July. July 5 had been thrown around as a possible launch date, but if that was to be, the news would be out by now to build awareness.

Channel Nine (Sydney) will tonight offer a one hour news bulletin at 6pm to provide complete coverage of Labor leadership battle which has resulted in Julia Gillard becoming Australia’s first female Prime Minister. No doubt the same will occur in other markets.

As a result, A Current Affair will air at 7pm, followed by Getaway at 7.30pm. Two and a Half Men will not be seen tonight.

UPDATE: Tracey Grimshaw A Current Affair LIVE from Canberra with a one-on-one interview with the new Prime Minister – Julia Gillard. 7pm Tonight.

Seven (Melbourne) have indicated they are doing the same, with a one hour new bulletin from 6pm, Today Tonight at 7pm and Home and Away at 7.30pm.

Seven (Sydney) are also following suit. Regular Seven programming from 7.30pm will be pushed back half an hour – with Cougar Town being pushed out of the schedule so that the network resumes as programmed for the premiere of True Beauty at 10pm. Matty Johns Show on at 8pm, How I Met Your Mother from 9pm, with a new episode first, followed by a repeat at 9.30pm.

No changes for Ten so far, but they do already have one hour news at 5pm. If they do extend their news, it will continue to 6.30 and push out Simpsons for the night.

We will update any programming changes as we are made aware of them.

ALSO – SKY NEWS is providing non stop coverage of all the events from Canberra all day.

UPDATE: Julia Gillard is our new PM, and our first female PM.

A Labor leadership challenge could see deputy PM Julia Gillard PM in the morning when the party goes to a vote to decide who will lead them into the next election, due later this year.

The three commercial networks, ABC and SKY News provided live coverage of Kevin Rudds press conference announcing there was a leadership challenge occurring.

ABC – already showing Lateline at the time continued discussing the matter, while Ten went back to fininsh Law and Order before their late News could provide further coverage.

Nine and Seven continued the leadership battle coverage with both returning to their programmed shows by about 10.45pm.

With Nine covering Wimbledon, Ten is the only free to air channel with late night news on this historic night leading up to the possibility of Rudd being ousted in the morning.

The vote is at 9am (Thursday June 24) – expect blanket coverage from all networks in the morning.

Meanwhile – SBS continues to show soccer – go Socceroos! See them live at 4.30am (hopefully) win over Serbia and continue their World Cup campaign.

Channel Nine is to re-open its news bureau in London after shutting it down back in 2008.

The new UK correspondent will be Peter Stefanovic, who will make the move from Los Angeles with Denham Hitchcock and Robert Penfold to be the two LA-based reporters.

Nine’s Director of News, Mark Calvert, released a Nine memo stating: “Having a network correspondent working out of London will give a huge boost to our coverage across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and beyond. Even in the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen what a rich source of stories that patch is: the Cumbria massacre, clashes in the Middle East, Sam Stosur’s run in the French Open – on it goes. In the run-up to a Royal engagement and the 2012 Olympics, our appetite for coverage in the region will only increase.

“Pete will work across Today Show, News and ACA, and do whatever he can to support our colleagues in Sport and at NineMSN.”

The former European correspondent James Talia moved back to Nine in Melbourne when the London bureau was closed in September of 2008 for financial reasons.

Source: TV Tonight

Is it OK to call a police officer a pr**k? According to a judge, yes. And then the issues are raised as to where you draw the line. Surely the use of such words need to be taken in to context, and if we are now saying it OK to call a police officer a pr**k, what next? The story obviously dominated the news and current affairs coverage of the night.

While the word pr**k itself is the main part of the story, Channel Nine’s 11am News yesterday were in trouble for using the word in its bulletin. In newspapers, the p word was censored like rather than spelt out – showing some journalistic integrity.

Nine’s 6pm News bleeped out the p word – no doubt as a result of what happened at 11am, while Seven’s News used the word. Meanwhile, on the 7PM Project on Ten, Steve Price – regular Tuesday night guest used the word a few times, calling the judge that made the ruling about the situation a pr**k as well. 7PM went further to discuss the issue of how language is declining continually, and there is a decreasing lack of respect for authority in society.