Radio station calls election a week before election day

[A Joseph Ross]

Well, at least they called it correctly, and after the voting.

On 4/10/2018 2:29 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> Election night 1968 at WMUR-TV in Manchester, NH.
>
> Local elections has been decided early but the race for POTUS was too
> close to call - but at 12:58 AM WMUR-TV became the first media outlet
> in the US to declare Richard Nixon had won.
>
> General Manager Sam Phillips didn't want to pay overtime.
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:04 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
>>  From MASSterlist:
>>
>> Thinking ahead: Radio station decides it’s never too early to call election
>> result
>>
>> An innocent mistake or an April surprise? WMYV on Martha’s Vineyard aired a
>> report giving the win in the Edgartown selectmen’s race to the incumbent,
>> even though the election was still more than a week away at the time, George
>> Brennan reports in the Martha’s Vineyard Times. The challenger learned of
>> the fake news report when co-workers offered condolences on her defeat. The
>> station says the error occurred when a news copywriter was writing a
>> “pre-story” on the election that wasn’t supposed to air until after the
>> April 12 election.
>>
>> MV Times
>> <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0010UTNbZ7qgphKcD9buRzjuKA3AoOBo0FCASAtPtjNxRkW2sP-i_TTM_quIpHBxeeBbVdgn0j8qTdbn8lsCKwrbT4U6sF26GRljhy5mmTp7l2oEY2tNsz_qOs6KAc5Qimverl2lyFaQ-HA3xKhvOXg1JjOiqzv0HCd0CppdvVtPOMsdJlWiCGvFnBruTypMvQRcg6pVLg7QCw-QZHQWmz7yq2QMfHeMDM6MJDCKWPuKsI-9-YskvoSUgcPC-JJNbbu&c=SNI3LBlcldICywc9FScnRXCBJjazZKoHyepS2ZunP45sBCMzgSxdhw==&ch=qNk-zrp2ecSPGHiPfuKmnyinS5ZQOLM3OfkfPtpwUPWr9JR00YrKlQ==>
>>
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