Van incident in North London - News Coverage

You were -5 at the time, but there were three months worth of special programming during the Falklands War. ITN News at Ten routinely ran for 45 mins every night, and weekend bulletins on both BBC 1 and ITV were at least 30 mins long. It didn't really disrupt the schedules, because after a couple of weeks, they became the routine schedules.

The 'on the hour' IRN radio news bulletins ran for 8 or 9 minutes, and some small ILR stations notably Portsmouth's Radio Victory, and I think Plymouth Sound ? went 24 hours for the period. (Only the big city ILRs were routinely 24hr in 1982)

For me I thought it was ITN and IRN/LBC's glory period for reporting. There was very little footage, and what there was was a few days old, therefore most of the immediate reporting was pooled audio only

During the first Gulf War, ITN did a daily short Gulf War update bulletin at - I think - 8pm. Not sure if they ever made it into the TV Times.

I've just taken a look at random Genome pages for BBC 1 in summer 1982, no mention
of anything, or any effects Falklands related, so I think the two listings mags back then just
stuck their heads in the sand, and hoped it would all be OK, by the time each week's mag hit the newsagents.

We used the Daily Telegraph [1] for TV listings back then, we used to get the Radio Times, but my dad gave up with it mid 70s I recall.

[1] Sean Day Lewis. Who's old enough to remember his articles about TV and radio ?

IIRC that incident gave us Michael Buerk on News 24. Probably the one and only time ever.