Royal News Coverage

Well I guess it depends on who it is.

Plus, I think the embargo was issued by Buckingham Palace, which I would guess means it carries a bit more weight than were it just issued by another broadcaster. If it was breached, that broadcaster might not be given advance access to embargoed material in future, and therefore it wouldn't be in a position to roll it at the same time all other broadcasters do.

Interestingly ITV's ratings for the procession were much higher than 2002. 1.7m yesterday versus less than a million last time around (I think - can't remember which article it was to quote it). Wedding effect, perhaps? Can't think how else it would have nearly doubled.

Well they never had any real promotion for the days coverage so it must have been helped by the broadcasters superb coverage of the wedding.

And, in some people's opinion the poor quality of the other broadcasters

I still think the ratings are actually quite low. When you consider more people were watching Julie Etchingham on the NaT then the royal wedding it seems quite odd. Why didn't more people switch over from BBC considering the coverage was so poor?

Anyone know Sky's ratings?

It's due to the BBC being the accepted "national events broadcaster" destination; the vast majority will have switched on BBC1 by default and left it, with a hefty few utilising it as mere background imagery/noise to the other things they had going on.

Couple that with when even someone like me isn't entirely sure what ITV is and is not covering simultaneously (and obviously far too lazy to check the EPG and find out), then they really haven't much hope of Mr or Ms Average flicking over to see Queenie on Channel 3 now have they?

Not 100% on this but I did see a suggestion on Twitter at the time that CNN en Espanol aired the message just before 6pm.



https://twitter.com/#!/RodrigoEBR

It seems they were fairly low, just snuck into the bottom of the top 20 multichannel ratings for Sunday.

It didn't even break the 500,000 mark compared to the BBC's 11.9 million

SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/06/queens-diamond-jubilee-tv-ratings?newsfeed=true

Because in 2002 it was during the World Cup so their morning coverage had to go on ITV2 when nobody had it, and by the time they started the Beeb had been on for hours so nobody bothered switching over.

I do remember they tried to cover the fireworks display after the concert - which in 2002 seemed to be much more of an event and not just squeezed in at the end under the credits like this time. However ITV didn't have the rights to the concert, and it overran considerably, so I remember the rather sad sight of them outside filling for time describing what was going on until Charles did his "mummy" speech which they were allowed to show.

So I went to all that effort for nothing?!
(by which I mean routing the clean version of BBC One to SCAR, a grand total of about five button presses...)

This was definitely worth a listen, especially Alan Yentob nearly losing his temper with Ian Hyland. It also highlights the fact that the BBC lost gravitas. The BBC really have gone for the "oh whatever" response and it's embarrassing really.

I agree with another post on here, I think the pageant would have been covered far better if it was a BBC News production.