Presumably this went via PA and nobody scooped anybody
Long day for Sarah Hughes then going from the news summaries and then back to her royal correspondent role, apparently she only came back from holidays yesterday. I thought she was very impressive on Sky today, oddly enough she has quite good chemistry with Kay Burley!
I would imagine it being such a large operation that BBC, ITV and Sky would probably team up to produce (or share) a pooled feed, for which each of the channels can opt in and out of with their own anchors.
Yes, like with any event (from a football match to a big state event) there's always just one set of cameras producing one 'multi-lateral' feed which is given to any broadcaster who wants it. Broadcasters then have their own facilities to do their own coverage seperately.
It's always been the case the 2/3 main news providers have shared out the running and set up of the coverage, AIUI each will have a certain area to set up their equipment - ITN the church, BBC the route and Sky Buckingham Palace for example.
However I don't know how it works now that virtually all the facilities used will be hired in, even the BBC's
Mm, I was thinking along the lines of the Visions scanner which was parked up outside Downing Street after the election, providing a pool feed of press statements, and those nice cinematic crane shots of arrivals and departures from number ten. (I never did find out who paid for that...)
Wasn't there an issue with a recent large state occasion where Sky decided not to contribute and were excluded from the pool as a result? Can't remember which it was.
Yes, like with any event (from a football match to a big state event) there's always just one set of cameras producing one 'multi-lateral' feed which is given to any broadcaster who wants it. Broadcasters then have their own facilities to do their own coverage seperately.
Though only in recent years.
In days gone by you'd get a major football match (I think the FA Cup Final was sometimes covered by both the BBC and ITV?) covered by two broadcasters (with one having cameras on one side of the pitch, and the other broadcaster on the other. These days they do that for 2D vs 3D coverage in some cases)
Similarly Charles and Di's wedding was covered separately by both ITV and the BBC - though the BBC did by far the better job (and probably got better 'first choice' of camera positions). The BBC's pictures were certainly better...
So are the BBC and Sky going to be giving this blanket coverage tomorrow... with the news anchors outside Buckingham Palace?
I'd be surprised if they kept the scale of the coverage going tomorrow. Doubtful there would be any major developments and there are quite a few more stories to be covering.
Sometimes I like to kid myself that Britain is a modern, 21st century, democracy...
...then I'm exposed to a day's news coverage like today's and I realise what a class-ridden, hidebound society we truly are. Why do otherwise sane and rational journalists lose all their critical faculties once the Royal bleeding Family decide to organise a jolly? It's like watching telly in the 1950s, everyone tugging their forelocks and toadying up to the radiant couple.
...and we're going to get another six months of this too.
I understand that SIS Live have already got bookings for HD outside broadcast units OB1 the largest 24 camera unit as well as 20 camera units OB3 and OB7 along with SIS 56 and 57 dual path uplink trucks for the Royal wedding.
I would expect OB1 to be for the main production of the whole event which im sure will be a BBC production , I would then say OB3 or 7 would be used to produce parade coverage with the other unit likely to be with Sky to provide own coverage.
It is going to be a very busy time for OB companies with lots of worlwide broadcasters wanting coverage and own reporters so will be lots of units in use along with loads of uplink trucks. In fact I am told yesterday that uplink trucks were being pulled from all around the UK to provide coverage of engagement so the wedding will be 100 times worse
