I won't be watching any coverage this year, I'm working the damned thing!

You needn't watch any of them if you are interested in the result.
John Moore informed us this morning (approx 6:40) that the outcome is in the bag for Mr. Carney and that this will be apparent before the votes are even counted in the West.

mace wrote:

I will mostly stick with CTV because I like Vassy Kapelos and while I have never been a fan of the NDP's policies, I do like Thomas Mulcair. He is a very good debater and his political analysis and commentary is excellent.

This is my choice as well and for the exact same reasons. Having Moore and Carroll from the radio side on TV won't hurt, either. 

I will be looking at all of them at some point but likely watch CTV the most.  Always tune in CBC for a while, but oddly never watch Global that much. CBC had by far the best set last federal election but went a bit overboard with the animated graphics.  In the recent provincial election CHCH in Hamilton did a great job with lots of live reports/good graphics, so it will be interesting to see how they handle federal returns.  CP24 will differ from CTV and I will check them out.   

I'll also be checking out the Elections Canada site to see if Greg Brady is coming back to 640 or whether Kevin Frankish will be there for the next four years. I'm sure the latter will be paying close attention to the Ajax riding race outcome!

Giorgio Mammolitti's tireless campaigning is about to pay off for the People's Party.   Go Giorgio!     Power to the People!


D.D.

For Global viewers out west (Alberta and BC), each province will be getting extended regional coverage after the national show wraps up, which right now is scheduled at 12 AM ET.

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mace wrote:

I will mostly stick with CTV because I like Vassy Kapelos and while I have never been a fan of the NDP's policies, I do like Thomas Mulcair. He is a very good debater and his political analysis and commentary is excellent.

I agree!

One of the 680 Newsradio anchors for election night coverage is Laura Carney. 

Isn't that a conflict of interest? 

At about 6:30pm the CBC youtube channel has 45K screens watching. It will be interesting to see the full ratings for tonight.

Interesting to note that CFRB is taking CTV television audio, while AM640 and Corus are doing dedicated audio-only coverage from Ben O'Hara-Byrne, different from Global.

While CTV has a powerhouse line-up of guests, there is one big advantage to what 640 is doing - the Bell network has the vote totals on the screen indicating who's leading and elected. Which doesn't help much if you happen to be listening on the radio. 

I agree, but the point remains: TV audio does not work on the radio. Never has, never will. If you're going to do coverage - even for a small audience - they deserve to be able to follow what's going on. Otherwise, why bother?

Jody Thornton wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

I agree, but the point remains: TV audio does not work on the radio. Never has, never will. If you're going to do coverage - even for a small audience - they deserve to be able to follow what's going on. Otherwise, why bother?

I'll be honest RA.  I've been watching CTV's coverage over YouTube, often with my back to the screen.  Only every so often do I hear the analysts say that they're pointing to something on a screen.  Even then, the analysts explain clearly what they intend to describe, so I'm not at a deficit.

Most will know they are listening to CTV's coverage over the radio.  Even on the weekend, when CP24 audio is carried, most of the time it sounds fine, and is easy to follow.  I know it's sad, compared to when I was working at CTN back in 2014, when Newstalk 1010 was carrying the mayoral election, and I was waiting to see if further 1010 traffic reports were going to be needed.  CFRB was really sounding like they were at the pulse of things, but listenership was waning even then on AM radio.  The election coverage was probably WAY TOO expensive to devote time to on AM radio.  Now radio sounds like a placeholder.
 

Sad but true Jody. I will say, though, that there's one other thing that really does not work on TV-over-radio. Whenever they do a graphics update with the changing vote numbers in a particular riding, there's a little "whoosh" sound effect that comes on with a visual wipe effect that's perfect on the boob tube (or in your case, Youtube!)

But on radio, it's never explained and it just sounds weird. And if there's a lot of updates at once, it can be downright awful because listeners have no idea what it is. 

At approx. 10:05, the CBC has called a Liberal win. Minority or majority still undecided.

RadioActive wrote:

CTV's call came at about 10:06 PM, so pretty close. 

                                                              Nope CTV's declaration came first because when it was made cameras were showing the crowd at Liberal Headquarters. There was no reaction to the announcement. One of the CTV panelists commented that the crowd doesn't know yet because they are watching election coverage from an alternate source. I chuckled at that.