20 years since the death of Princess Diana

RTE are showing it in a 1h50 slot on Monday.



Pretty sure News 24 was simulcast on BBC One when Concorde crashed in July 2000 as I remember watching it in the foyer at Pebble Mill. No doubt will be corrected by someone who knows of an earlier example.

Indeed, Seven Australia have scheduled it in a two-hour slot tomorrow evening.

I'm not sure if anybody has posted the link to this already, but here is what was broadcast on BBC Radio when Diana died: https://audioboom.com/posts/2362962-the-death-has-been-announced-of-diana-princess-of-wales

That's a really good point and at the risk of sending this thread seriously off topic was there much pre-9/11 that was anchored on location. That's the first big event I can think of where bulletins were anchored on location.

That was indeed the first time, outside of overnight/Weekend 24 simulcasts. It was a 1735-1800 slot, with Neighbours moving over to BBC2. Newsround (still at 1700 then) had been replaced by a standard BBC News bulletin from N6 which at the time I thought was a very odd move. Greg Dyke was interviewed soon after and said that they'd be doing more simulcasts of News 24, and indeed they did...

And from the same place, here's how other radio stations covered the news:
https://audioboom.com/posts/6242053-radiomoments-weekly-review-special-week-ending-sept-1st-2017

I don't think there was any new TV footage in last night's BBC One documentary, though there were a lot of radio recordings used, I assume some from the BBC's national simulcast on the morning of 31st August as I heard 'This is BBC Radio'. Some interesting phone-in clips showcasing the public mood at the time. One man called in to say he cried more at Diana dying than when his wife died.

Later on there were clips of the public outside, watching the Queen's tribute speech to Diana. There was also footage of a family watching it on TV in their house, which featured signing (and grainy reception). I assume this was on BBC2, as the speech was carried on BBC1 and ITV also? Did Channel 4 or 5 carry the speech?

I think last night's documentary went out of their way not to show any TV news coverage, as rather than little, there was basically none. Any clips used of David Dimbleby, Martyn Lewis etc were in sound only.

Yes, it's just that someone on here, possibly Asa, said they wondered if there was going to be any new TV footage in this programme which there wasn't.

ITV and Channel 5 have (or will) be showing their own Diana documentaries. Maybe something has/will pop up?

Yes they both did, I seem to recall C5 packaged it within a C5 News Special.

The picture quality of the clips shown last night were awful, that's what happens I suppose when you take 4:3 composite recordings, and insist on cropping and zooming them to fill a 16:9 frame.

There must be a whole generation that now think all 80s and 90s TV was as crap as that when originally broadcast (which it certainly wasn't)

Oh, the cropping was ghastly, especially at one point they showed a graphic from the results of a This Morning phone-in poll, with the text barely fitting in the screen. There were also clips that looked like they hadn't been deinterlaced properly and I don't think any TV footage was displayed in proper 50i.