The Royal Wedding

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Fox News getting the facts wrong again - that's not what Wills & Kate look like

Are you sure it's not the man that goes round changing the advertising boards?

Glaring self-promotion, I'm surprised Sky News haven't followed suit with Holmes and Burley etc

Are you definitely talking about 7's Sunrise? They were presenting from outside Buckingham Palace when I was watching just now.

9's Today show has a studio in a tall building with views over Westminster and the London Eye. Not sure exactly where they are, but it can't be far from Trafalgar Square as it has a similar view to my office there (albeit from quite a bit higher up). If I had to guess, I'd say they're somewhere like New Zealand House on Haymarket.

As well as talking about how to drink tea, CNN/US had Niall Ferguson on talking about the UK austerity cuts and the inevitable US comparisons. And also played out bits of an interview with Gordon Brown. So not all fluff

Watching Seven Sunrise now and Mel & Koch are by the Palace on chairs but they have a studio
http://yfrog.com/h6gzojj next to the BBC!
heres a pic of the control room Mel tweeted
http://yfrog.com/gy95626394j

There Royal top story this morning is the news on rain predicted Friday

Nope - the Crown grants access to the broadcasters to cover private events (i.e. the stuff within St Pauls or Westminster Abbey) and retains rights over their use. Coverage of the Royal events in a public space (i.e. outside) are not covered by this - so using stuff of processions etc. is easy, using stuff of the actual service is more complicated. It's not impossible to use - but you need to go through the right channels.

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They raised a good point though on 10 o'clock Live last week. If the American's are so interested in it, why not charge them for the rights to broadcast it and let that pay for the event itself.[/quote]

Not sure how the money works for this.

In Sweden they had a Royal Wedding last year, and charged for the footage, which meant AP and Reuters didn't take the material and it wasn't shown as widely as it otherwise would have been. Caused quite a scandal.

Anyone ever thought that The Royal Family are the only ones who will get a super duper 'wedding video', while the rest of us will have to put up with 'Dave's Wedding Video Recordings' or similar for our own?

No.

Yes.

Never heard of Mark Grindon's Diamond Video?

Looking at the pictures of the studios at Canada Gate, I was just thinking - where do the usual ITV/ BBC News etc reports come from? ( of course before the temp studios were built). Obviously somewhere around the Canada Gate area, only it might just be me or the camera angle, but they seem to be raised, like they would be in the temp studio. ( Hope this makes sense - quite hard to word what I want to say).