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During the death of diana (January 2013)

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samwsmith1
Whataday posted:

The Queen Mother's death was a shambles considering the amount of preparation that had gone into it. Diana's sudden death was covered far better.

I would've thought that the death of the Queen will be treated as a standalone broadcast rather than a continuation of the rolling news service.

Peter Sissons goes into some detail in his book about the coverage of the Queen Mothers death. Mainly that Senior Management were told as soon as it happened, he was told 20 minutes before he had to broadcast the news, after the end of the evening news, and so didn't even manage to write the script him self.
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topdog2006
WillPS posted:
Does there exist a standalone BBC ident like the one shown to announce programming had been suspended? I believe that was its only TX.


I think you're right that it was the only time that generic logo was ever broadcast. I'd imagine these days they'd either show the breakdown captions for each channel, or if there was to be a generic BBC announcement they'd maybe use something similar to this (a silent version obviously)

WH
Whataday Founding member
samwsmith1 posted:
Whataday posted:

The Queen Mother's death was a shambles considering the amount of preparation that had gone into it. Diana's sudden death was covered far better.

I would've thought that the death of the Queen will be treated as a standalone broadcast rather than a continuation of the rolling news service.

Peter Sissons goes into some detail in his book about the coverage of the Queen Mothers death. Mainly that Senior Management were told as soon as it happened, he was told 20 minutes before he had to broadcast the news, after the end of the evening news, and so didn't even manage to write the script him self.



How much notice does a newsreader need to read a particular NEWS story? Ridiculous.
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samwsmith1
Whataday posted:

How much notice does a newsreader need to read a particular NEWS story? Ridiculous.

I think it was more the fact that no body had thought to tell him or anyone else involved in the broadcast until just before, he said that it'd been a quiet day so had he been told he could have written his own script in plenty of time and prepared properly.
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Larry the Loafer
samwsmith1 posted:
Whataday posted:

The Queen Mother's death was a shambles considering the amount of preparation that had gone into it. Diana's sudden death was covered far better.

I would've thought that the death of the Queen will be treated as a standalone broadcast rather than a continuation of the rolling news service.

Peter Sissons goes into some detail in his book about the coverage of the Queen Mothers death. Mainly that Senior Management were told as soon as it happened, he was told 20 minutes before he had to broadcast the news, after the end of the evening news, and so didn't even manage to write the script him self.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349871/Peter-Sissons-BBC-bosses-ordered-downplay-Queen-Mothers-death.html

It's a pretty interesting read.
:-(
A former member
Quote:
I had a black tie ready but I was told not to wear it


That is very strange
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Inspector Sands
WillPS posted:
Does there exist a standalone BBC ident like the one shown to announce programming had been suspended? I believe that was its only TX.

I know there was a non-channel 'BBC' logo and clock after the rebrand in 1997, but it was never shown as by the time the Queen Mum died the policy had changed
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KA_UK
Inspector Sands posted:
SatGold posted:
Wow 48 seconds in this video shows CNN was broadcasting GMTV as you can see the CNN LIVE logo from when breaking news was that princess diana died.. I guess they wanted to know the actual reaction of britain and how they are reporting it. Would GMTV even know that CNN was rebroadcasting their programme across the world ?

CNN has long had ITN as it's UK 'affiliate', I wonder if they were simulcasting ITV as a part of that deal? Either not realising the difference between ITN and GMTV or by arrangement.


Wasn't GMTV and CNN part owned by Disney at the time?
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nwtv2003
KA_UK posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
SatGold posted:
Wow 48 seconds in this video shows CNN was broadcasting GMTV as you can see the CNN LIVE logo from when breaking news was that princess diana died.. I guess they wanted to know the actual reaction of britain and how they are reporting it. Would GMTV even know that CNN was rebroadcasting their programme across the world ?

CNN has long had ITN as it's UK 'affiliate', I wonder if they were simulcasting ITV as a part of that deal? Either not realising the difference between ITN and GMTV or by arrangement.


Wasn't GMTV and CNN part owned by Disney at the time?


GMTV was, CNN has always been 100% Turner. I guess it's more likely that GMTV was simulcasted because it was ITV, although as that day went on I do remember seeing ITN on CNN, but from that week it wasn't too uncommon for other channels to pool in on the BBC, ITN and Sky.
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ginnyfan
CNN still has a deal with ITV News, they sometimes use their reports and interview their reporters.
Few years ago they even aired first 15 minutes or so of News at 10 for some major news, can't remember what it was though.
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Markymark
ginnyfan posted:
CNN still has a deal with ITV News, they sometimes use their reports and interview their reporters.
Few years ago they even aired first 15 minutes or so of News at 10 for some major news, can't remember what it was though.


They aired the first 15 mins of ITN's 1992 election programme, and also I think most of News At Ten on July 7th 2005 ?
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buster
GMTV were lucky that they still had some sort of weekend operation when Diana died. By 2002, Princess Margaret's death was announced on a Saturday morning at about 8.30. BBC1 and 2 took News 24 (which was already on BBC2 at that point anyway). GMTV on the other hand stuck with all their pre-recorded kids programmes and cartoons until 0925 when there was a quick news bulletin before SMTV. You wonder what would have happened had the Queen Mother's death been announced at 6.30am a few weeks later.

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