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It's against the law to broadcast results.

That's about as communist as it gets... Of course, we do live in Canada, what else would you expect?

In fact, I live in the Maritimes and I get a cable channel from Newfoundland, but they cut off the channel about 10 mins ago, because they're 1/2 hour ahead of us. You also can't get any internet radio broadcast until 11:00pm eastern time.

It's against the law to broadcast results.
That's about as communist as it gets... Of course, we do live in Canada, what else would you expect?

In fact, I live in the Maritimes and I get a cable channel from Newfoundland, but they cut off the channel about 10 mins ago, because they're 1/2 hour ahead of us. You also can't get any internet radio broadcast until 11:00pm eastern time.

I understand how you might be pacing the floor biting your nails like we were during the past two presidential elections, but I urge you to reconsider your attitude. Think what it meant to us when the journalists here claimed that Gore had won Florida - before all the polls in that two-time-zone state were even closed!!
The result of that was that people walked away or diverted from their trip to the poll - only to learn later that the issue was in doubt and remained so for nearly a month! If you had fallen for that misleading report, and stayed away from the poll, I doubt that you would ever again wish for more "information" of that sort on election day.
And that was only the tip of the iceberg; most other states were called quickly if for Gore or slowly (the final margin of victory being the same) for Bush. There was only one real outlier from that trend, among 50 states. Thus people voting in the Pacific Time Zone were not told while their polls were open that Mr. Clinton's Arkansas and Mr. Gore's Tennesee had been won by Mr. Bush - even though if Gore had won by the same margin they certainly would have been told that.
The conclusion is that broadcasters projecting unofficial results from the East while polls remain open in the West is undue influence to which the broadcasters are not in principle entitled.