the BBC global broadcast, U.S. Election Night, which will air on the BBC America cable channel. Co-anchors David Dimbleby and Matt Frie will be joined in the studio by former ABC anchorman Ted Koppel for what the BBC calls “big-picture perspective and global analysis.”

In addition to reaction to election results from the BBC’s worldwide team of correspondents, the program will include commentary and analysis from comedy writer Ricky Gervais ( The Office) and authors Gore Vidal and Christopher Hitchens. Talk about commentators willing to go where few others dare.

During the election, Livestation viewers will be able to watch the action live, on their desktops, anywhere in the world, and chat in real time with other viewers as well as journalists and producers from our partner channels such as Riz Khan of Al Jazeera. Most of our partners are planning 12-hour TV specials, offering news, analysis and studio discussions as events unfold. Here are some of the highlights of the coverage on election night.
Al Jazeera English is again particularly keen to gauge the mood of a global audience. As the drama of the election night unfolds, producers from Al Jazeera will be in the Livestation chat room gathering online reactions and feeding them directly back to the studio to be read out on air.
BBC World News David Dimbleby, one of the BBC’s most experienced presenters will be hosting an election special along with Matt Frei, anchor of BBC World News America. They’ll be joined in the studio by veteran newsman Ted Koppel for big picture perspective and global analysis.
euronews says it will be assessing the impact of the election from a European perspective and analysing how the outcome may influence the future relationship between Europe and America. The euronews coverage will be streamed in seven languages on Livestation.
France 24 has set up studios at the foot of the Trocadéro, where the largest American election evening outside the United States is being organized by Republicans & Democrats Abroad.
C-SPAN coverage will start at 14.00 GMT with an in-depth look at how the 2008 elections will impact the next Congress. C-SPAN will be taking the feeds from both campaigns’ HQs from Chicago and Phoenix. This will most likely be interspersed with behind-the-scenes coverage, a studio host with guests and viewer calls

We’ll be providing a results map with feeds from the AP. On Election Day,
people can also go to our 2008 Election
sitehttp://www.google.com/2008electionto see county-by-county voting
results since 1980 on Google Maps/Earth, and
how the live results on Election Day match up. With the help of a time lapse
bar, voters can also see how demographic voting patterns have changed over
the past 28 years, giving them a historical perspective before they head to
the polls. In addition, people can find out what other voters are searching
for before voting with Hot
Trendshttp://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=Xand take a look
back at what the candidates said with our index
of quotes http://labs.google.com/inquotes that goes back five years. Before
voters cast their ballots, they can compare statements from the 2008
campaigns to speeches given in 2004, or contrast candidates’ positions on
specific issues.

socialmedian’s election site, http://election.socialmedian.com, aggregates news and user-feeds related to the 2008 election and to allow users to join in the election coverage and discussion. The site was created with washingtonpost.com to enable people to track all the election news from thousands of news sources as well as from Twitter feeds, Flickr photos, YouTube videos all in one place, and (importantly) to join-in and add their own feeds from their favorite sites and to provide user reports leading up to and on Election Day.

In addition, socialmedian has launched Election Talk, an embeddable feed that allows users to participate in real-time election discussions anywhere, anytime. The widget is available on http://election.socialmedian.com and on partner sites such as washingtonpost.com and UK’s guardian.co.uk. By aggregating the content by most popular, rising fast and hot discussions categories, Election Talk helps users cut through the noise and ensure that the best information bubbles to the top.