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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I disagree. They occupy public airwaves. It should be used to inform the public.
Have you seen what Ten air on Saturday nights? Complete and utter rubbish that is not watched as it is. They can do the election project. It isn’t going to rate any worse than what they have their now anyway.
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ABC TV line up for election day 2 July
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All AEST
4:00pm Australia Votes: Nationwide Live
With only two hours until polls close in the Eastern States, ABC presents a fast-paced special criss-crossing the nation with live updates from polling stations as Australia Votes.
5:00pm ABC News On Election Night
5:30pm Australia Votes: Election Night Live
11:00pm The Drum: Election After Party
After the votes have been counted and Election night parties wind down, Julia Baird and a panel of die-hard political pundits and commentators dissect the results and the talking points of Election Day in a Drum special.
11:45pm ABC News - ABC24 only
5pm News then 5.30 show start is early for the ABC!
ABC is copying Seven and Nine by starting official election night coverage at 5.30pm AEST.
SBS Election Exchange is in your Community
The SBS Election Exchange is a series of community-based events hosted by SBS Radio’s language programs in the lead up to the 2016 Federal Election. SBS Radio invites locals to come along, meet their local candidates and join the debate.
Each SBS Election Exchange event will involve SBS Radio taking its radio studio out to communities, interviewing community leaders, local representatives and federal election candidates from the major Australian political parties.
The SBS Election Exchange will engage with SBS Radio’s six largest language programs, which represent close to half the SBS Radio audience. The programs hosting the Election Exchange events are Arabic, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Mandarin and Vietnamese.
SBS Election Exchanges will be held in Liverpool, Chatswood and Bankstown in Sydney and Federation Square in Melbourne from 16 June to 25 June.
The SBS Election Exchange in Liverpool will be hosted by SBS Arabic24. Drive presenter Heba Kassoua will present and Arabic24 Marhaba program will broadcast live from 4-7pm.
SBS Radio’s Greek and Italian programs will host an Election Exchange at the Refugee Week Launch in Federation Square on Sunday 19 June from 2pm. SBS Greek will broadcast live from 4-6pm.
SBS Mandarin and Cantonese will be at Chatswood Mall Markets on Thursday 23 June and SBS Vietnamese will be in Bankstown on Saturday 25 June.
SBS Election Exchange Events
Liverpool Resource Migrant Centre
Hosted by SBS Arabic24
Thursday 16 June, 3.30pm - 7pm
Refugee Week Launch - Federation Square Melbourne
Hosted by SBS Italian and SBS Greek
Sunday 19 June, 2 - 6pm
Chatswood Mall Markets
Hosted by SBS Mandarin and SBS Cantonese
Thursday 23 June, 11am - 2pm
Saigon Place, Cnr Chapel St and Bankstown City Plaza
Hosted by SBS Vietnamese
Saturday 25 June, 10am - 1.30pm
For more information visit sbs.com.au/radio
Turnbull and Shorten will have their second Leaders’ Debate (third if including their Town Hall style meeting) however it won’t be shown on either FTA or pay TV. The debate will be held this Friday (June 17) at 6.30pm AEST at Facebook Australia’s Sydney HQ, and streamed live at news.com.au as well as Facebook pages of news.com.au and Facebook Australia. It will be moderated by Joe Hildebrand of The Daily Telegraph and Studio 10.
##australia Votes: ABC NewsBot
ABC News has launched an ABC NewsBot for the Federal Election in an effort to answer some of the many questions Australian voters may have in the lead-up to polling day.
The launch continues the experimental Twitter bot that assisted in delivering live poll results on election night 2013.
ABC NewsBot will once again be delivering live results as they come in on Election night on Saturday 2 July. You can get up-to-the-minute results on election night simply by messaging the bot with your electorate name.
Over the past three years, ABC NewsBot has become a little bit smarter and more sophisticated and is now available to help with a wider variety of questions. You might want to ask: Who is running for Parliament in my electorate? How are the parties going in the polls? When was the last double dissolution election? The bot also provides the latest election news updates on request.
Gaven Morris, ABC Director of News, said: “Media organisations across the world are experimenting with bots as a way to add to the personalised news experience.
“We are constantly looking at new ways to share news and information with our audiences on all media platforms, including social. ABC NewsBot is another example of our efforts to take stories to the places where our audiences are.”
To ask the ABC NewsBot a question you need to be on Twitter or Facebook.
If you’re on Twitter, tweet your question to @ABCNewsBot.
On Facebook, search for “ABC News” in the Messenger app.
From what I have seen, Ten is running alternative programming on Election Night. So that means no Waleed Aly and the The Project team 
It was previously confirmed that The Election Project was returning?
really? As Foxtel online guide has zero mention of it on the Ten schedule
I didn’t think it was?
Even if they did run The Project you wouldn’t have been forced to watch it
ABC News 24 and Nine are showing live Labor’s 2016 campaign launch at the marginal seat of Lindsay in western Sydney right now.
Nine’s election coverage schedule has been released. The 2 July coverage is to be called “Australia Decides”. Details embargoed until 9am tomorrow when it will be posted here.
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