Unusually low amount of info in this thread about what actually happened. We usually have pages of X has joined Y in studio Z, random BBC World programme has been dropped etc.
So when did BBC One or Two and ITV show any news flashes or rolling news coverage, and who hosted them?
Unusually low amount of info in this thread about what actually happened. We usually have pages of X has joined Y in studio Z, random BBC World programme has been dropped etc.
So when did BBC One or Two and ITV show any news flashes or rolling news coverage, and who hosted them?
The news was broken on ITV by Andrea Mclean during Loose Women.
Andrea briefly threw over to whoever was outside the hospital after telling viewers the news. BBC One were already showing the One O'Clock news and broke the news as they were about to get to the item about Kate being in labour. It was all very underwhelming.
I happened to be flipping past Sky News at the time, Kay Burley was live outside the hospital with a couple of their reporters when someone - unclear if it was a Sky producer or a fellow journalist from elsewhere - came over to say they've been told to make sure they're on their spots (i.e. stand by...), a few seconds later the announcement came through.
BBC One were in the News at One, I don't think they did anything too special - it was the second story in the running order anyway and the announcement came during the first report so they just introduced it in the usual "in the last few seconds it has been announced..." style.
Little bit surprised to hear that ITV have decided to interrupt programmes in the late afternoon for this.
Hardly an important royal anyway - technically the future equivalent of Prince Edward.
Prince Andrew surely?
Nope. Before any of William's generation was born, the succession was Charles, Andrew, Edward, Anne, despite Anne being older than Andrew. After William, the succession is George, Charlotte, new baby. The law changed a few years ago to make it age order in future, not male priority. So Edward is correct, the new boy is the second spare, like he was.
BBC One were in the News at One, I don't think they did anything too special - it was the second story in the running order anyway and the announcement came during the first report so they just introduced it in the usual "in the last few seconds it has been announced..." style.
The One was surprisingly normal in comparison, which was a respite from the wall to wall coverage on Sky News at the same time.
BBC One had a news report in the 17:15 junction, introduced with an ident I don't know if we've seen before:
The news report itself had titles and was with Fiona Bruce who had a brief chat with a live reporter. This is the easiest slot to do one of these old-style reports while the News Channel is off in another studio, looks a bit slicker than just opting into ongoing coverage.
And then it was back to the above symbol and into Pointless.
Fox News briefly crossed over to show William and Kate with their newborn son at the end of Outnumbered for all of around 90 seconds, then normal service resumed where they focused on North Korea.
