Calling the Nov 8th Presidential Election - Order of News Service/Network Calls

[rbt48]

Can anyone report the order in which news services and networks called the Presidential Election this year?  I'm thinking of AP, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and others I might have left out (BBC, newspapers perhaps). 

Including the time the call was made would be great as well.  I understand that several called the race after Clinton had called Trump to concede and even after Trump made his victory speech.

[jaichind]

One thing I found interesting was that AP called FL before anyone else and in fact called it before AP called NC.  This as opposed to AP as the only news service/network refusing to FL in 2000 and proven right to do so.

[bagelman]

MSNBC went full denalist and refused to call WI or PA even after Trump's victory speech.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

FOX called it 5 minutes before the victory speech. CNN called it seconds before Trump began speaking. NBC interrupted the victory speech partway through to call it.

[emailking]

MSNBC went full denalist and refused to call WI or PA even after Trump's victory speech.

Not really. The anchors had been saying well before that that things weren't looking good for Hillary and it was looking more and more like a Trump victory, despite it being too close to call. They also reported that Clinton called him to concede before they even called the election. The decision desk was just being cautious since the results weren't matching the exit polls.

[Nym90]

FOX called it 5 minutes before the victory speech. CNN called it seconds before Trump began speaking. NBC interrupted the victory speech partway through to call it.

Seems a little bizarre to interrupt Trump talking about his victory to report that Trump had won.

[Nym90]

It's a bit unusual that the election was called for Trump earlier than the 2004 race was called for Bush considering that the margin in the decisive states of PA/MI/WI was closer this year than it was in Ohio in 2004.

I think the difference in how the networks acted is because Trump only needed one of that trio to win, and Clinton needed all three. Therefore it was extremely unlikely that Clinton could pull off a win in all of them even if it was at least somewhat plausible that she could still win one or two.

Whereas in 2004 it all came down to just Ohio.