Personally, I would just be thankful that Ten are even going to the trouble of doing some form of proper Federal Election coverage on July 2. I was seriously expecting them to just run normal programing with updates through the night like what happened with the QLD and NSW State Elections last year!
I wouldn’t mind if the network did a late night bulletin to cover the election.
I think they should keep going with this. They’re having a go. Better than nothing or some tacky late bulletin.
They can’t just sit there and do nothing. Maybe the demos are quite good. Plus they have excellent Waleed an actual journalist to head the coverage. I’m sure they will have Steve price on the panel as the token rabid right winger.
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Why not the following?
- AEST: Eyewitness News at 5pm, The Election Project at 6pm - covering exit polls, the fluff that Seven and Nine would have been peddling for an hour already; run a film up until 9pm and then come in with (hopefully) a result
- ACST: Eyewitness News at 5pm, The Election Project at 5.30pm, film until 8:30
- AWST: Eyewitness News at 5pm, filler until 7pm
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Studio 10 could have done something. They did a pretty good job covering the SA election a few years ago
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I thought you were saying “right whinger”. 
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They did nothing during the 2000s and rated quite well. TV Cynic posted the figures for previous elections somewhere.
Ten aren’t known for Election coverage and the demos are all out getting wasted anyway.
So what? They still should be doing something. We are a democracy and viewers need to be informed by multiple news services.
Times have changed and the TV landscape has changed.
This thread is about media coverage, not the personal political preferences of forum members nor is it a debate about federal politics (that belongs in this thread).
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ABC, Sky News, Seven, Nine. Plenty to go around.
Even The Chaser promo makes reference to movies on Ten.
…and I’m sure there will be plenty of alternative programing on the multichannels come Federal Election night for those who really don’t want to watch the coverage! 
But some people would prefer ten. Waleed and Hugh are better than many of the others on other networks.
The multi channels can air movies and alternate programming
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the ratings says otherwise for 2013
Of course since 2013, analogue TV has been switched off completely (was still running in a few markets at the time of the last Federal Election), more multichannels have been launched and the proliferation of online streaming services has exploded. But I guess we’ll ignore that…
There are NO excuses for Ten not to be doing some sort of coverage of the 2016 Federal Election (or any major news event that warrants extended/rolling coverage outside of regular bulletins, but that’s for another topic) as far as I’m concerned. Alternative programing should be left purely for the multichannels, of which there are plenty on free to air TV let alone Pay TV.
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It’s not about ratings. It’s about offering a service and branding. They pay a licence fee for public airwaves and therefore should provide the public with a news and information service.
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Couldn’t agree more cmo. It’s as silly as the SMH saying…oh we won’t have sports reports, or a weather page today, because the Daily Tele has one.
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Ideally this would be good. Unfortunately you don’t get the premium content that airs on the main channel moved to multichannels. It’s pretty rare these days to get any premium content on multichannels. Look at the crap that airs on ONE and ELEVEN on Saturdays. Star Trek lol
One possible way to stand out would be for The Project to run commercial free (or with limited breaks). That would have to be promoted well ahead of the night of course 
Riiight - but let me guess, you won’t apply this same reasoning to what Ten actually will be showing in it’s place, will you? Tell me - with most movies online, who really wants to watch a bunch of advertisements dispersed in a 20 year old children’s movie at 6:30pm? There’s no need for it?
The coverage online feeds off what is broadcast on TV - in an age where live TV rates, where FTA TV stations have almost become rolling news sources, not covering a federal election is so unbelievable stupid.
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