The claim in Wikipedia that the AP was somehow special in that it reported election results really floored me. Every newspaper report the election results of interest to a community.
Historically, the AP's first reports were based on exit surveys. The exit polls were often wrong and fell apart completely in 2016.
The claim that the AP calls election is really off base when its historical first call wasn't even based on the actual vote.
I think the main things to point out are that the AP was designed as a cartel that eventually ran afoul of the Sherman Antitrust Act. It now gets more money from abroad than the US ... so it is a multinational cartel.
People are nuts to buy the line that The AP Calls our elections.