Live, from City Hall, it's a stupid Galvin again

When the results come in Tuesday night and Cincinnati has a mayor-elect, you can expect that the local television stations will carry the winner's speech live at 11 p.m. But there's three-and-a-half hours of ballot-counting ups and downs before the broadcast stations jump in, and that's where the city-owned cable channel Citicable hopes to fill the gaps.

"This is for the hard-core political junkies," said Jerry Galvin, a longtime ad man and Democratic consultant, who will be anchoring Citicable coverage from deep in the bowels of City Hall. Galvin, half of the radio team of "Stupid Galvins" with brother Jene, will rely on a team of 15 Xavier University honors students to provide reporting and perspective from the Board of Elections. The students are part of a program taught by XU political science instructor Gene Beaupre, who will also bring more than three decades of Cincinnati political experience to the telecast.

Viewers in the City of Cincinnati, Greenhills, Forest Park and Springfield Township can watch the elections on Time Warner Cable channel 23. All other Hamilton County Communities can watch on channel 15.