Channel Four will be taking the 2 minute silence at 11.55 despite not normally following national silences.
Meanwhile, at BBC News, Breakfast will be extended to 1000 with Bill Turnbull at Kings Cross. Natasha Kaplinsky will present the Two minute silence and the Six from Regent's Park.
IRN will be offering a special bulletin to mark this silence on IRN 2 Channel (this is the channel which usually carries the short overnight IRN90 bulletins)
The bulletin will begin on a clock start at 11.59' 00". The newsreader (Simon Cadman) will begin the bulletin with the words "It's approaching Twelve o'clock......" He will talk up to the silence which will begin at 12 noon. The silence will be followed by a round up of other headlines and the bulletin will end at 12.03' 00"
In a memo to Programme Controllers and News Editors, Jon Godel reminds staff to ensure silence detection kit is disabled off so that back-up tapes don't kick-in - can you imagine!
In a memo to Programme Controllers and News Editors, Jon Godel reminds staff to ensure silence detection kit is disabled off so that back-up tapes don't kick-in - can you imagine!
That always seems like rather unnecessary advice considering the 'ambient silence' that IRN feeds in such situations is always very loud.
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Most radio stations seem to pipe out amplified static, perhaps in an attempt either to keep listeners who have just tuned in and would think there was nothing broadcasting, or to alert them to the fact that it's intentional silence.
My local Mix network radio station relayed the silence from the TV feeds of London - ie traffic noise, the odd pigeon and rustling of leaves.
Most radio stations seem to pipe out amplified static, perhaps in an attempt either to keep listeners who have just tuned in and would think there was nothing broadcasting, or to alert them to the fact that it's intentional silence.
My local Mix network radio station relayed the silence from the TV feeds of London - ie traffic noise, the odd pigeon and rustling of leaves.
I think as mentioned above, the main reason is that at most radio stations, an emergency tape or CD (usually based at the transmitter site) automatically kicks in if output from the studio goes silent for a certain amount of time. Clearly you don't want this happening during a two-minute silence. Also, of course, broadcasting 'ambient silence' has the advantages you mention as well.
I thought the film about the Terroist Attacks in USA out recently was very innapropriate and I think that this silence should be observed in schools etc as well. 8(
I thought the film about the Terroist Attacks in USA out recently was very innapropriate and I think that this silence should be observed in schools etc as well. 8(
I thought the film about the Terroist Attacks in USA out recently was very innapropriate and I think that this silence should be observed in schools etc as well. 8(
I hope you are not implying everyone in school should be forced to observe this silence, I believe it should be a choice.
Regarding the CBBC drama on this terrorist attack, I don't have the information yet about it, but what is the recent obsession with dramatising everything? Is it entirely necessary to jazz up every terrorist incident?!
