20 years since the death of Princess Diana

They took the piss out of him quite mercilessly on StoryFix (remember that? How is that 10 years ago?!) - I'm not sure if I have access to those downloaded videos any more but they are rather hilarious, if a little sad, too.

Just something new I've put a bit of work into recovering and manually correcting errors on for the last few days due to badly degraded source material, although apologies for any small errors which have still made it through. But to add to the BBC Ceefax coverage already available, here are some pages from Channel 4's Teletext service as was being broadcast on the day of Diana's Funeral 20 years ago today. Not containing some of the special colourless pages that were used on ITV, but quite a few other little interesting bits. With all racing coverage suspended, replacing its section on Teletext are pages about how 'there are more important things in life than horse racing... at least until tomorrow'.

A small thing which is hopefully of interest to some anyway!






More pages at https://www.tvwhirl.co.uk/teletext/channel-4-teletext/

Whereas the likes of Chris Lowe did, some do, some don't I guess.

There is a post a few pages back saying the Queen Mother embargo was 5pm, but it was nearing 6pm by the time the news broke. I'm guessing 5pm is a typo?

BBC One interrupted Dazzling Bloomers, which started at 5:35, and BBC Two's airing of Steptoe and Son was at 5:40, so you're probably right.

Was it ever established why BBC Two came out so early? I've always wanted to know what was showing on News 24 prior to the announcement.

Definitely 5pm for the Queen Mother embargo. You don't forget something like that.

Remember passing a latest football score down to the commentator at 4.35, followed by that 'not for broadcast heads up', and the instruction to wrap up, the post game ramble for 5pm sharp.

PA/IRN/Sky News wires were 'snapping' every few minutes from 4.15/4.20 onwards.

Wish I'd printed some off and kept them.

The news didn't break at 5pm, Hatton Cross. It was way after 5.30. This is backed up by various people who recall, and that breaking news documentary also has times.

That make no sense then because both ITV AND BBC had news schedule around 17.30 17.35 before ITV went to pops, BBC news never told the news until 17.51.... Its a complete joke..

https://youtu.be/gFoEC2O9R4U?t=2411

Talking of memories playing tricks on us - I swear blind that the death occurred during the first half of a rugby match being shown live on S4C because they had a Newyddion newsbreak during the half-time advert break. I distinctly remember the phrase "ffam ffrenhines wedi marw" or similar. Swore blind it was a Celtic League / WelshScottish matchup but looking through the archives, the only thing I can think I was watching was Pontypridd v Ebbw Vale in the Principality Cup!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/celtic/1900670.stm

Those teletext pages are interesting as MB21 has some Teletext pages from the day of the funeral from the ITV London region which feature the header logo in black and white and white cross graphics and also advertising was replaced by "Today's Prayer" http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/TeletextLtd/ - the captures were taken later in the day than your captures so wonder why yours are in full colour?

Maybe the ones on mb21 are from ITV which took their particular style of image that day where as Channel 4's look was "business as normal" for the front page perhaps?

Yeah that's the bit I was alluding to where I mentioned 'Not containing some of the special colourless pages that were used on ITV' in my original post. The exact reason why Channel 4 only has the regular full colour pages is probably something that could only be answered by someone from the company with a good memory. However hypothesising:-

* As Russ suggests, they were possibly going for a more 'business as usual' approach on 4 given it had already been widely reported the channel they were carried on weren't going to be broadcasting the funeral. Obviously the C4 Teletext racing was the main section where this was impossible due to there being no racing that day.
* Teletext were possibly just keeping the branding for the news-related pages as they'd specially branded up the news section too and as of yet I've never spotted any images of the special ITV P100 being used for anything but news headlines that day too. At this point in time C4 Teletext wasn't carrying a news section at all, only ITV.

For those who didn't see it at the time (possibly as many had already gone fully digital by this point), they did bring that page back as part of the big retrospective put out right before Teletext shuttered their proper service at the end of 2009. I only caught these by chance, which is also why they're photos, as I'd tuned the analogue television back in in order to capture video for the site for Granada's DSO.