This Saturday night the ABC will be providing in-depth analysis of the Northern Territory election across television, radio and via a full results service on the internet.
The television coverage will be live on ABC1 in the Northern Territory, with a separate radio coverage on ABC local radio throughout the Territory.
I'm involved in the television coverage that begins at 6:30pm Territory time after a half hour local news produced by News 24 and beginning at 6pm Territory time.
ABC News 24 will broadcast the election count live across Australia, and it will also be streamed live on the internet at http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/. For those trying to watch overseas, the News 24 stream will have its geoblock lifted for the evening.
The ABC News 24 coverage across Australia starts at 6:30pm Australian Eastern time with the NT news bulletin and tally room cross, the non-stop coverage starting at 7pm eastern. (Those times are half an hour earlier in South Australia, two hours earlier in Western Australia.)
The ABC will also be providing a full results service at www.abc.net.au/elections. You can currently find all my election background material at that address.
If I get chance when not on camera, I'll try and twitter at #ntvotes, and will also provide updates on the Heffron by-election at www.abc.net.au/elections/nsw/2012/heffron/
There are a few things I need to explain about how we are setting up the coverage.
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