[Stooky Bill]

I’ll be working at a count through the night for local radio - infact, working across two shows for two stations (one of which is teaming up with other community stations to provide regional coverage of South East Wales)

It occurred to me that the latter will probably be the biggest election night effort on radio in Wales this year - because the Beeb are simply fading up the TV sound on both Radio Wales and Radio Cymru and having done with it until 5am.

I think BBC Scotland and BBC Northern Ireland are doing the same thing as well.

Scotland are, but there Radio Nan G are taking the TV programme too so their coverage will be in English (which isn't unusual, it takes Radio Scotland/5 Live a lot of the time.

In Wales Radio Cymru is taking S4Cs programme Radio Wales is taking the BBC1 programme

It looks like Northern Ireland's is on Radio Ulster too.

It's not obvious from their slightly confusing listings pages when the nations programmes are finishing and returning to the network programme

It's a shame they can't all do seperate radio coverage, but it's an expensive luxury for the number of listeners overnight. Also having 2 (or in the case of Wales, 4) programmes plus 3 different network programmes is spreading reporters and guests very thinly