I watched CNN's coverage, it was a good enough picture, no interrupting commentary, plus they just kept the black "CNN LIVE" dog on - they removed the flipper.
Good analysis afterwards from non other than Larry King!
I did too, although I watched not for Michael Jackson, more Anderson Cooper.
Thankfully Sky News showed the memorial service as it was meant to be seen and let the pictures speak for themselves. So well done to them.
Indeed - complete with the distinctly annoying yellow ticker which rolled with nothing but the same promo for a good three hours.
If they really wanted to promote the HD coverage, surely they could have replaced the ticker with a static white-on-black strap or something of the like.
The yellow ticker was inappropriate, the standard black one would have done the job.
They left the breaking news ticker permanently on during coverage of Obama's inauguration too; annoying bright yellow ticker stating the same bloody thing over and over (again only to promote HD availability and not other news).
Annoyingly, every attempt I made at recording the memorial failed; everything was cut off bar one recording in which I merely ran out of space; and only a few minutes remained. Is it likely that this will appear on Sky Anytime?
BBC World News's coverage was quite good. I quite enjoyed. Only once, the Rajesh Mirchadani talked over this guy talking about Michael Jackson at the funeral. Otherwise, the coverage was quite good, although I was surprised they weren't covering any other news strories.
Burley isn't good at ceremonial occasions - Martin Stanford or Jeremy Thompson should have been sent out. Sky's contributors are pretty awful as well - people from newspapers you've never heard of that can barely string more than 10 words per sentence.
Annoyingly, every attempt I made at recording the memorial failed; everything was cut off bar one recording in which I merely ran out of space; and only a few minutes remained. Is it likely that this will appear on Sky Anytime?
The yellow ticker was inappropriate, the standard black one would have done the job.
Yes, and what also annoyed me was that it kept stating that it was a 'News Alert' when all they were doing was advertising the HD channel, no information on other news stories at all.
Haven't watched much Sky news for a long time - but I was shocked at how bad Burley is. After 20 years in the game she couldn't present for toffee. Facts were wrong, questions were poor - and we even had her moaning that "someone was talking in [her] ear" and it was putting her off.
I'd rather have heard the person talking in her ear.
