I've just finished a game against an unfair AI. The AI was down to five planets when I jumped into the home planet for the final battle. With that won I colonised the planet, but immediately started losing culture. Two 'dead end' planets either side had four broadcast centres each, which I destroyed - too late to save the colonised planet though, I 'lost contact'.
I recolonised, wiped out the next planet, leaving one left. My culture was still going down at -0.05. The last planet had one broadcast centre which I destroyed. Bearing in mind my culture was right up to this last planet, my newly colonised planet had four broadcast centres, and the planet I jumped in from had six, my culture on the newly colonised planet was still going down at -0.05...
I destroyed the last planet, so the game was over, but why was the culture still negative? It should have switched to positive culture long before.