Does Anyone here know..?

I remember in Christmas 1997 News 24 played it out at about 1 second past 3pm. Everyone was under strict instructions not to hit PLAY until they'd seen it start on BBC One...

Where is Her Majesty broadcasting from this year? Anyone know?

I'd like to see snippets of her visiting staff at St Pancras station and driving a train....


Yes ok, you can post pics of trains here.

BBC Prime and BBC World always used to have their own copies of the broadcast even though they played it at 1500GMT in synch with BBC One. Doing The Queen was always the most stressful bit of doing Christmas Day, not because of what it was, but because of how many copies of the damn thing you had to set up and run! One year, we had two tape copies running directly into NC1, a third in a VT suite in Post Production and I'm pretty sure Birmingham had a copy or two too, though I don't think they actually ran them in synch with the network.

I prefer duplication and expansion rather than duplication for the sake of it. Therefore it will stand twice the chance of not being read at all by somebody who comes in late and repeats the info for the third time.
(plus if I just duplicate you word for word it makes me look as if I haven't read the thread :p)

Cheers for all the replies chaps.
I guess my little christmas credit card damage limitation exercise wont happen then.
The reason I originally asked is a certain Irish bookmaker is offering odds on what topic the Queen will lead off the speech 07 with.
I had this idea that if some of the West Coast ABC radio stations in Australia played her Maj's musings at say 10am local time (8pm Xmas Eve over ere) then I could find out what the topic was, and then clean the bookie out and send me trusty Barclaycard into negative balance for once!

However, Mr Harvey (doth cap in general direction, sir) and Inspector Sands tell to indicate otherwise. Never mind - back to studying the Racing Post for other revenue streams....

(DISCLAIMER - Kids, gambling. Not Big, Not Clever)

There was a time when they used to run a Telecine backup as well. And staff up NC3 to provide a reserve gallery in case NC1 fell over. Given that NC1 was effectively two galleries anyway (the announcer's area could go to air directly if the main gallery mixer failed) I thought this was maybe a trifle over-cautious!

And possibly an off-air feed of ITV available on the desk in case it all goes totally tits up?

Whilst some of the "more mature" of us are on here, can anyone remember which year was the first when the radio version was NOT simply the television soundtrack?

I know for a good many of the early years of the television version, the audio was identical, whether you were watching or on good old sound radio.

There was a year (I have a fuzzy memory of it being around 1970, but could be wildly wrong) when the television version suddenly became a lot longer than the radio one, with lots of extra (visual) material included.

That, of course, was the first year that radio had to implement their own belts, braces and bits of string in the standby department, as they couldn't just switch to sending out television sound if their version failed.

What's the betting ITV try to offload the Queen's Speech as the next victim of their PSB commitments? You can see it now, they go squealing like piglets to Ofcom arguing it isn't necessary for two terrestrial broadcasters to show it simultaneously.

It isn't though.

Maybe not. But you can read ITV like a book sometimes.

A million to one?
and not good for your health that you seem to be getting worked up about something that isn't happening

The speech costs hardly anything to make, and ITN would probably still have to pay for it every other year for channel 4's showing