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How the BBC broke Diana's death

Sunday 31.8.1997 (August 2007)

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rob Founding member
onetrickpony posted:
I uploaded the Sky and ITN ones from TVWorld onto youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bCoM1g2yA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDPdYQ7YprA


Thanks very much onetrickpony. Very Happy
TV
tvmercia Founding member
onetrickpony posted:
I uploaded the Sky and ITN ones from TVWorld onto youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bCoM1g2yA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDPdYQ7YprA


would have been nice to credit the website from which you ripped the clips
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A former member
yeah your right, i will do. I have other videos of GMTV clips from TV World. Shall i upload them to youtube, or does the guy want them back? Is the guy still around?
IS
Inspector Sands
fusionlad posted:

Sky were first to break it in the UK. Martin was told in his ear, and looked very shocked relaying the news.


They were first to break the embargo!
IS
Inspector Sands
tvarksouthwest posted:
Interesting that everyone went mad when Diana - a royal by marriage, was killed, but these scenes weren't repeated when Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother - two blood royals, met their end. I don't think we'll even see a reaction anything like this when the Queen pops her clogs.


They are very diffrent cases though, the death of an infirm pensioner is less of a news story than the sudden death of a relatively young woman
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russnet Founding member
onetrickpony posted:
yeah your right, i will do. I have other videos of GMTV clips from TV World. Shall i upload them to youtube, or does the guy want them back? Is the guy still around?


The last time that site was updated was back in 2001 when in those days low bitrate videos were made to keep the file size low.

9 days later

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william Founding member
Stop press on this is that Parliament *are* going to show the funeral coverage again after all, on Sat 1 September from 8.25 to 4.05.

Also David Dimbleby has recorded a short intro + postscript.

More here
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Asa Admin
Nice to see they're replaying it - according to http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LSEU799N there was early coverage from 6am but nothing listed from about 7-8.30am - anyone know what happened then?

It's interesting that the programme is being run for the same time - it did indeed finish on BBC1 at 4pm but included a news report at 1.10pm and a fuller news summary at 3pm so I guess they will be shown too? Were they from the main news set?
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timbouk
If I remember I think Jill Dando started the broadcast from 6am from a studio opposite Buckingham Palace until 8:25am when the 'offical' coverage started with DD, from opposite the abbey.
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David
Asa posted:
Nice to see they're replaying it - according to http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LSEU799N there was early coverage from 6am but nothing listed from about 7-8.30am - anyone know what happened then?

It's interesting that the programme is being run for the same time - it did indeed finish on BBC1 at 4pm but included a news report at 1.10pm and a fuller news summary at 3pm so I guess they will be shown too? Were they from the main news set?


According to the BBC Catalogue it also included regional news. I bet they won't repeat that. It would be nice if they did though, I'm sure it is still relevant to a programme about Diana's funeral as nothing else of note happened that day (probably).
BR
breakingnews
davidlees posted:
Asa posted:
Nice to see they're replaying it - according to http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LSEU799N there was early coverage from 6am but nothing listed from about 7-8.30am - anyone know what happened then?

It's interesting that the programme is being run for the same time - it did indeed finish on BBC1 at 4pm but included a news report at 1.10pm and a fuller news summary at 3pm so I guess they will be shown too? Were they from the main news set?




According to the BBC Catalogue it also included regional news. I bet they won't repeat that. It would be nice if they did though, I'm sure it is still relevant to a programme about Diana's funeral as nothing else of note happened that day (probably).


Mother Theresa had died the night before.
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Ste Founding member
breakingnews posted:

Mother Theresa had died the night before.


According to Wikipedia she died September 5th - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa

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