Green will now join a broadcasting institution, delighting and disappointing football fans by announcing the 5pm results, broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live and the World Service.
The hourlong results broadcast, in the unusual period of 8 30 to 9 30 p.m., drew an estimated 21.83 million viewers.
The resulting broadcast, which ran one uncomfortable hour in total, was more awkward than any scene on "The Office".
In a televised discussion about the Eurovision results, broadcast live in the middle of the night, Russian celebrities praised Mr. Rybak as "nash," or "ours".
Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA 5.29am GMT A woman reacts as she and others watch election results broadcast confirming the re-election of President Barack Obama at Melba's 25 at the Harlem State Office building in New York.
The results, broadcast by Seven News on Wednesday, showed voters were also deeply unhappy with the performance of the Labor leader, Bill Shorten, and indicated that Turnbull enjoyed a strong lead as preferred prime minister.
Meanwhile, a disjointed cross-section of Brits – from ambulance drivers to journalists, butchers, musicians and art dealers – will be chatting about what home means for them, with the results broadcast in a weekly radio show.
You can run the punch cards through at a high rate of speed, print out the computerized report, assume it to be correct, and get the results broadcast on the 11 o'clock news".
According to results broadcast on KTN, a Kenyan television station, Mr. Kibaki was winning 98percentt of the vote in the Kikuyu highlands, whereas Mr. Odinga had 90percentt of the vote in a predominantly Luo province in western Kenya.
Referring to the first round's early results broadcast at 8pm, Mr Bayrou notes wryly: "at 7.59 I was unrespectable; at 8.01 I became extremely seductive .In this section Secularism v democracy The final countdown Bronze meddling Sinn Fein's moment?
