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GENERAL ELECTION Results in Sound and Television GENERAL ELECTION Results in Sound and Television Polling Day is Thursday, May 26, and on that night and the following day results will be broadcast in the Home Service, the Light Programme, and on Television as they are received. Full details of the BBC's plans for these broadcasts are given on page 3. 'Radio Times' Election Chart In this issue is a three-page chart for the benefit of listeners who wish to record the results. It lists the 630 constituencies in alphabetical order and in the form in which their names will be announced over the air. Broadcasting the General Election Results WHENthe polling booths close at nine o'clock on Thursday evening The electronic com- will be in readiness for the of the everything start complex puter which will be broadcasting operation which will give the nation the results of used to help in the the General Election with the least possible delay, together with periodic assessment of Elec- announcements of the state of the parties, analysis and interpretation of tion results. It is a the results by expert statisticians and commentators, and Election news digital computing from various parts of the country. engine working on The first result is to flicker over the tapes in the newsroom two storage capaci- expected or ' at BBC about 90 minutes after the close of the poll. At the ties memories.' headquarters One ' is a last Election four results were received before 11 midnight memory ' p.m.; by high-speed machine the total had two hours 178 results came risen to 105. In the next in, for producing im- after which the flow dwindled: 31 between 2 and 3 a.m., 6 between 3 and mediate calcula- 4 a.m. It is not known how the many boundary changes that have taken tions, the other is place in constituencies since 1951 will affect the announcement of results; a storage 'memory' but the peak may well be shorter and sharper. used for combining There will be 630 M.P.s in the new House of Commons, five more a series of calcula- than were elected in 1951. There are 35 new constituencies and 185 tions to produce the logical answer where boundary changes have taken place; 410 are unaltered. In announcing the results the designations ' New Division' and ' Altered Division ' will be and it will not be possible to make a statement of used, line,' will be a team of broadcasters well known to the and losses in these constituencies. already listening party gains whose task be to write and the commentaries. The A network of communications has been set up to link the public, will broadcast country-wide team will include BBC newsroom in London with studios and O.B. points. Andrew Shonfield, Honor Balfour, Walter James, and Cyril Ray, with William Hartley at the headquarters of the electronic in will direct lines between ' HOME SERVICE AND LIGHT PROGRAMME computer Staffordshire. Another facility be Broadcasting House and the national headquarters of the three main T'WENTY minutes after voting ends on Thursday night Home Service parties in London. The commentaries will not be allowed to hold up the How the listeners will be able to hear a special survey entitled Country announcement of constituency results. Despite the complex nature of Polled. Contributors in the BBC's six Regions, and observers in the party the network, as soon as a commentator knows that a new result has features of Election headquarters, will report on some of the notable Day. come through he or she will be off the air within sixty seconds. At 10.15 p.m. the Home Service and Light Programme join forces, and before the first result comes through there will be a short programme in ON THE which the method of announcing results and the techniques of assessment TELEVISION SCREEN will be explained. T'HIRTY-SEVEN cameras, sixteen more than were used during the During the night from 10.30 p.m. until close-down at 4 a.m. results will Coronation, will be employed by the BBC Television Service to cover be broadcast as received, the state of the parties will be given at every the General Election results. With outside broadcasts planned from some quarter-hour, and considered assessments of results and trends will be eighteen centres-including Edinburgh, Manchester, Cardiff, Cheltenham, broadcast when needful. The Light Programme only will broadcast a and Bristol-the Service will again show election scenes and declarations special fifteen-minute edition of Radio Newsreel at 1 a.m. and from time of poll. to time, before close-down, will relay broadcasts from outside commentary At 9.30 on Thursday night Richard Dimbleby will introduce the studio points in widely scattered constituencies. On Friday morning, to assist team of expert analysts: David Butler, author of The British breakfast-time listeners, a summary of the 4 a.m. assessment will be re- General Election 1951, who took part in the last General Election broad- peated in the Home Service at 7.10 a.m. and 8.10 a.m. before counting is casts; Robert McKenzie, author of British Political Parties, who has resumed. At 9.10 a.m. the start of Housewives' Choice will be delayed frequently appeared on Television; and E. R. Thompson, the BBC's to accommodate a twenty-minute Radio Newsreel which will bring Parliamentary Correspondent. listeners up to date on election results and comments. From 10.30 a.m. At the headquarters of the parties to interview leaders will be William until 5 p.m. the Light Programme and the Home Service will again join Clark, of The Observer and a frequent chairman of Press Conference. forces--except that the Home Service will broadcast the usual programmes Herbert Nicholas, author of The British General Election 1950, will this for Schools and commentaries on racing at Epsom. Further results will year contribute his analysis of the results from Oxford, where he will be be announced as they are received and the state of the parties will be joined by Alan Bullock, historian and Censor of St. Catherine's. given at frequent intervals throughout the day. Two studios at Lime Grove, D and E, will be used for the operation. The main flow of results on Friday should begin about the middle of D will be the information studio and will contain no microphones. This the morning and by lunch-time the picture may have changed consider- is to enable the messengers, caption artists, sub-editors, and checkers ably. The general situation, will be brought up to date in a special survey to talk at will without any of their comments going on the air. Results from 1.10-1.30 p.m. in both the Home Service and Light Programme. will be filled in on slips which already bear the name of the constituency, The final stage of the operation will be reached at 9.15 p.m. on candidates, etc. The slips are matched with caption cards bearing the Friday, when the Home Service will broadcast an extended edition of same information and taken to caption artists who use quick-drying paint its regular current affairs series At Home and Abroad. This will contain to fill in the figures. The cards are then taken to studio attendants who authoritative comments on the final result, interviews with political place them on easels before the cameras. Meanwhile duplicate slips are personalities, and a special section devoted to overseas reactions. taken to statisticians working with slide rules to tabulate the overall Professor Maurice Kendall, who holds the Chair of Statistics in the figures and to assistants who translate the individual results into squares University of London, will lead a team of statisticians who will study on a map of the British Isles and into additions to other diagrams. results as they come in and assess trends. They will make use of com- Michael Balkwill, Deputy Head of News Output, News Division, will be puting machines installed in Broadcasting House, and in addition they in charge of information in Studio D. will have at their disposal, for the first time at an Election in this Cameras in both studios will be controlled from the gallery of Studio D country, an electronic computer that is among the fastest in the world. by the producer, Grace Wvndham Goldie, BBC Assistant Head of The use of this intricate machine has involved much careful preparation Television Talks, who was in charge of the operation in 1950 and 1951, under Professor Kendall's supervision, and because it cannot be moved and associate producer Michael Peacock. They will also be in direct to London an O.B. operation has been planned in conjunction with the touch with all the outside broadcast units. BBC's Midland Region. Throughout Election Night the team in Broad- Transmission will continue through the night until approximately casting House will be in touch with their opposite numbers in charge 4 a.m. on Friday and will be resumed again at 6 a.m. Results will again of the ' brain.' be shown as they come in and there will be interviews, outside broadcasts, To this ' back-room ' assessment of Election statistics will be added care- and expert analyses throughout the day. If decisive results should still be fully prepared political analyses compiled with the help of Noel Annan, coming in on Friday afternoon, Children's Television may be interrupted; Lecturer in Politics in the University of Cambridge. Then, in the ' front at 6 p.m. there will be a brief survey and at 7.45 a final review.
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