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All of Tonight's Anchors Wearing Black - All Channels

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

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IS
Inspector Sands
w12 posted:
This thread is quite comic! Nobody has died. There is no cover-up. It's a coincidence - maybe the heavy overcast weather in London today depressed people setting off for work and they all put on dark colours.....

Of course, past performance is no indicator of future...... but embargoes of the nature being alluded to here are usually less than half an hour, if they exist at all. Embargos break - the bigger the story, the more likely it is to happen. If - and I stress IF, nothing's actually happened! - the Queen had died and all the newsrooms knew at 1700, it would have leaked onto the web and be going round like wildfire by 1800. .


Quite, any news would have reached the public domain hours ago.

All quite amusing though, I hope that any newsreaders that have heard about this wear black tomorrow just to further the conspiracy
BR
Brekkie
P.S. When this story does break, can someone please start a new thread! We don't want it hidden away on page 28 of this thread now! Wink


Asa - have you got your sombre version of TV Forum on standby?
TV
archiveTV
Brekkie Boy posted:


The last one I remember is the Queen Mother's. BBC2 cut off air and had a still frame for ages, and I think it was C4 who actually broke the news within their scheduled bulletin.


That wasn't an embargo. that was a cock up
MC
mccanmat
Shock horror Peter Simon On Bid TV is wearing a black jacket !!!! LOL

And Carrie Frais Is wearing a frilly black top under her light coloured jacket!!!!

Might get more worrying if we find out that Moira is wearing a black thong on breakfast in the morning!!!!
LU
Luke
Brekkie Boy posted:
Also, surely sports presenters are irrelevant as in the event of a major story, sport is usually dropped!


i did find it funny that somebody on this thread connected Jeff Stelling on Sky Sports 1 wearing a black coat with the possibility that somebody had died.
MC
mccanmat
Does ITV News channel usually broadcast live after Midnight???
BR
Brekkie
Nothing at midnight then!

Maybe it's all down to the death of the Tory party - though I'd argue they died years ago!
W1
w12
mccanmat and brekkie boy - trust me, you can go to bed, if anything does happen it'll be a bigger shock to the nation's newsrooms than it will to you.....
MC
mccanmat
yeah thats soooo true
CI
cityprod
You know, I find this rather extreme cynicism over the lack of action rather disturbing. Just remember, how many times was Pope John Paul II thought to be close to death? Everytime he went into hospital, the newsreaders started wearing more sombre outfits and nobody batted an eyelid. Broadcasters were on standby for obit proceedure activation for days at a time during that story. Just because this time we don't immediately know what this is all about doesn't mean nothing is happening. In fact, it's quite normal for the royal household, or indeed, the Vatican , to not make any public statements about someone being seriously ill and close to death. Indeed, the announcement of Princess Diana's death would not have been made quite so early had Press Association not broken the embargo that was placed on the story. So again, I repeat, just because we haven't been told anything, doesn't necessarily mean nothing is happening behind the scenes.

As regard to the Jeff Stelling comment, the programme was live, and if the broadcasters are on standby for obit proceedure activation, and the story broke during the game, Jeff would have been the person bringing the Sky Sports audience the story. At the same time, the match would have probably been abandoned as a mark of respect. When you broadcast live on television or radio, you learn to expect and to be ready for absolutely anything to happen, becuase quite often,something you would never normally expect to happen, does happen.
MI
Michael
I've found out what's happened.

Apparently, earlier this evening, Prince William fell over his ego and broke his arm. Prince Harry goose-stepped over to help him and kicked him in the nuts. Charles was too busy trying to work out how to bump off his second wife to notice, and the Queen was looking at a 50p piece saying "Does my nose look big on this?" Prince Philip said "Bollocks...it's all the w***' fault."
SD
sda|
Alexia posted:
I've found out what's happened.

Apparently, earlier this evening, Prince William fell over his ego and broke his arm. Prince Harry goose-stepped over to help him and kicked him in the nuts. Charles was too busy trying to work out how to bump off his second wife to notice, and the Queen was looking at a 50p piece saying "Does my nose look big on this?" Prince Philip said "****...it's all the w***' fault."


*chortle*

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