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Is there an announcement on the way tonight? (October 2005)

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JJ
JamesJH
Over at DS it is not going down well.

A lot of cynics there! Rolling Eyes
CA
cat
Does the fact that the BBC News website has not been updated for over an hour spark anyone's interest? Seems like a long time for them to not fiddle with it. Preparing for something?

Nick Owen broke the news on ITV, then broke down.
LO
Londoner
itsrobert posted:
Well that would have been on ITV - he worked for ITN until 2002. I don't know what ITV did that night.

Dermot Murnaghan and Nicholas Owen were both on air when the PA confirmation of Diana's death came through - they played a clip of it during the recent ITV50 output.
MA
Matrix
scottish posted:
Matrix posted:
archiveTV posted:
Matrix posted:
Antz posted:
Antz posted:
When Princess Diana died, how long did it take BBC World to first report the story?

I've edited the post. I meant when the car crashed (if I remember correctly she didn't die straight away).


Oh, I beleive that was relativly quickly done, remember there was half the worlds media chasing her at the time. The announcement of her death followed a few hours later on Breakfast Telly.


The announcment of death was made by Nik Gowing. BBC World was broadcasting on BBC1 that night as it was before News24 started.


Ahh thanks. I seem to remember watching Dermot having just woke up.


I may be wrong but didnt Dermot break the news on ITV?


Yes, He was then at ITV, long before the Breakfast Days. That and Five showing cartoons... Confused
TV
archiveTV
Antz posted:
BBC On This Day

Nothing out of the ordinary.


Of course. It's the 53rd aniversary of the announcment of the end of Tea rationing.

So obvious now
DO
donkeykong
I did post the link with the website for Audio and background on time of Diana death:

Diana
AN
Andrew Founding member
JamesJH posted:
Over at DS it is not going down well.

A lot of cynics there! Rolling Eyes

Which is unusual as over there they often believe everything based on the weakest of rumour.

Just wait until Huw appears at 10, blue suit, yellow tie....!
BB
BBCTV2003
Well according to one journalist, its possible to find out an embargoed story through an RSS Feed prior to the embargo being removed. I did a search on google of "current news embargoes" and that came up, but it was dated june of this year so maybe there are now measures in place to stop this happening. Maybe someone with RSS could check and see.
MI
Michael
For a full rundown of Diana's death on TV, go to Meldrum's Pick of the Continuity Announcements.
LO
Londoner
I guess the choice of ident before the 10 will be keenly anticipated by many.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
cat posted:
Does the fact that the BBC News website has not been updated for over an hour spark anyone's interest? Seems like a long time for them to not fiddle with it. Preparing for something?

Could just be time of night, however it is unusual for the BBC News home page to go for over an hour without updates.

Edit: Cue the timing of an update that has just been made.
NE
News24
Londoner posted:
I guess the choice of ident before the 10 will be keenly anticipated by many.


Ballet dancers all the way

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