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Steve in Pudsey
Would they have done an Obit rehearsal from Salford? Would they need to as World are on air from Studio C and the Obit announcement would be a simulcast.

The only way I could see Breakfast handling this would be if it was a Diana style scenario where there is some kind of incident being reported as news which develops into an Obit.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Might it not be the case that they will get embargoed notification, to enable everyone to get big names in place and packages lined up. You really wouldn’t want to mess it up.

Would we really have such a major announcement delivered to the nation by Roger Johnson or Sally Nugent. Over on ITV it’d be Faye Barker or Suzanne Virdee

With the Queen Mother coverage, what was Peter Sissons doing in on a Saturday, was he the duty newscaster that day or drafted in as a big name?
DG
DonnyGuy
Not sure if you guys have seen this article from The Guardian.

Quite a long read but covers how the news would be broken.
SW
Steve Williams
I don't see why it wouldn't be suitable, it is a news programme. It not being in BH isn't much of an issue, it might even be an advantage in some circumstances - they can prepare while Salford are on air.

Remember that they like to have a known presenter to break something like this. At 8am on Sunday it might be that one of the presenters in Salford is more well known than whoever is present at BH.


As you say, if the news breaks during Breakfast, Breakfast will cover it, as they do with breaking news on a regular basis. On HIGNFY a while back Steph said she'd done rehearsals for it. Other than coming from Salford it's no different to any other programme on the news channel.

With the Queen Mother coverage, what was Peter Sissons doing in on a Saturday, was he the duty newscaster that day or drafted in as a big name?


He was on duty that day, this being the era when the main presenters did the news seven days a week - as he says, he got half an hour's notice of the news.
Inspector Sands and bilky asko gave kudos
NA
natwel27
CBeebies (during the days it was on BBC Two) did do something during the day of the Queen Mother's funeral, in which Sue Monroe tells kids to join in the 2 minute silence to pay respect and it cuts 2 minutes of footage with the Queen Mother.

The tribute starts from 15:51 onwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6tlAbOzxMw


I think it's nice how they used the 'Sombre Bounce' ident to follow on from it. I guess anything else (except maybe 'Invisible Walls') would have seemed inappropriate.
MA
madmusician
CBeebies (during the days it was on BBC Two) did do something during the day of the Queen Mother's funeral, in which Sue Monroe tells kids to join in the 2 minute silence to pay respect and it cuts 2 minutes of footage with the Queen Mother.

The tribute starts from 15:51 onwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6tlAbOzxMw


I think it's nice how they used the 'Sombre Bounce' ident to follow on from it. I guess anything else (except maybe 'Invisible Walls') would have seemed inappropriate.

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but why the need to run the two-minutes silence within CBeebies continuity at all, given that the following film is introduced by a BBC Two ident/continuity announcer? They could have run the silence over a BBC Two slide or joined up with News 24 to take the silence. Or was running a child-friendly silence just considered a 'good thing to do'?
MC
mccanmat

Point of order: the current 1p and 2p were introduced 48 years ago

Ah, I was sure they'd shrunk but I must be confusing them with the 5 and 10p.


The 5 and 10 are a good case in point btw - the pre-decimalisation 1 and 2 Shilling coins continued to be legal tender after decimalisation, as 5 and 10p respectively. I'm pretty sure I saw some examples with the previous King rather than QE2's head on in the 80s. So there is no need to replace all of our currency in one go.


Coins in general stay in legal tender until removed from circulation rg replaced with a new size etc. I remember being handed shilling coin with a 5p in the early 90s and it had George V on it- it was still accepted. My mum remembers not long before decimal day in 1971? being given Queen Victoria pennies in change
IS
Inspector Sands
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but why the need to run the two-minutes silence within CBeebies continuity at all, given that the following film is introduced by a BBC Two ident/continuity announcer? They could have run the silence over a BBC Two slide or joined up with News 24 to take the silence. Or was running a child-friendly silence just considered a 'good thing to do'?

I suppose so, if it was in a regular slot for children's programmes then it's better to do one that's includes the explanation of why it's happening. I suspect it would have been going out on the Cbeebies channel too?

Of course both children's channels do observe the 2 minute silence(s) in November
BU
buster
Yes both CBBC and CBeebies channels carried the montage of children meeting the QM - quite a nice way of doing it I thought
MA
Markymark
My mum remembers not long before decimal day in 1971? being given Queen Victoria pennies in change


I’ve got an pennies that my father gave to me in 1970ish after receiving them that year as change from 1867, 1889, and 1901, all with Queen Victoria’s head on them. The 67 and 89 coins are very worn, but the 1901 one must have spent 70 years down the back of a sofa !
JL
JamesLaverty1925

With the Queen Mother coverage, what was Peter Sissons doing in on a Saturday, was he the duty newscaster that day or drafted in as a big name?


He mentions in his autobiography he'd done lunchtime and teatime bulletin that day. I think at this time, it was mainly the Friday newsreaders such as George Alagiah and Fiona Bruce at the time, who presented at the weekend, and Sissons still did most late weekend bulletins. Pretty sure I've read somewhere that Michael Buerk had stopped doing weekends c. 2000, so he'd often do more in midweek, leaving Sissons to do weekend lates. Fiona Bruce presented the Sunday bulletin, which would back up my theory, but of course with it being a Bank Holiday weekend anyway, it could all have been different.


CBeebies (during the days it was on BBC Two) did do something during the day of the Queen Mother's funeral, in which Sue Monroe tells kids to join in the 2 minute silence to pay respect and it cuts 2 minutes of footage with the Queen Mother.

The tribute starts from 15:51 onwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6tlAbOzxMw


I think it's nice how they used the 'Sombre Bounce' ident to follow on from it. I guess anything else (except maybe 'Invisible Walls') would have seemed inappropriate.


Would have to have been Sombre Bounce. Invisible Walls didn't debut until later in 2002.
BM
BM11
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge
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