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Royal Birth

Simon McCoy must be thrilled. (April 2018)

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MA
mapperuo
London Lite posted:
Blake Connolly posted:


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.


Yes BBC1 very tame. Probably quite nice you have such different types of coverage, caters for both worlds.
UT
Upload TV
I’m abit surprised that the Channel 4 News leading story isn’t The Royal Baby birth. 15 mins in and not a mention of the baby Shocked
WW
WW Update
Upload TV posted:
I’m abit surprised that the Channel 4 News leading story isn’t The Royal Baby birth. 15 mins in and not a mention of the baby Shocked



I suppose Channel 4 News is going after a different, more educated kind of viewer:



JA
james-2001
Upload TV posted:
I’m abit surprised that the Channel 4 News leading story isn’t The Royal Baby birth. 15 mins in and not a mention of the baby Shocked


They obviously prefer to report on real news.
DA
davidhorman
james-2001 posted:
They obviously prefer to report on real news.


Did they ignore Harry and Meghan getting engaged, as well?
JA
james-2001
I don't know, but props to them if they did.
RO
Rory
From memory they didn't lead on it, but it was mentioned somewhere in the programme.
DA
davidhorman
Just looked it up - they did (at least, not sure what else they might have covered) spend 6 and a half a minutes on a discussion covering - some might say overanalysing slightly - the multicultural aspects of Meghan's heritage.
FO
FanOfTV99
Blake Connolly posted:
BBC One had a news report in the 17:15 junction, introduced with an ident I don't know if we've seen before:

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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.


It was used a few times. Once for the One Love Manchester and Once on BBC One NI
LL
London Lite Founding member
CNNi had Max Foster with Professor Kate Williams.
FO
FanOfTV99
Also i've found this



(Skip to 2:14)
LL
London Lite Founding member
ITV News London lead with the birth. Lives from Robyn Dwyer and Chris Ship, while Sejal Karia voxed at Buckingham Palace. 15 minutes of fluff of which I felt that ITV News would have preferred to network instead of opting-out to the regions at 6.

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