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alekf
cheshirec posted:
just a joke Ste 
And the announcement was made by Peter Sissons, with the world 'This is BBC Television from London. Diana....'
On the BBC's overnight coverage they had some overnight anchor, not sure who he was, I know that ITN (who were on air an hour or so after the BBC) had Dermot and Nick Owen, and Sky had Martin Stanford and Kay Burley, Martin was lone anchor when the story broke, and Kay arrived at approx 4am.
As, Kay and Martin were then anchors of Sunrise.
I know the American channels simply did the following:
NBC did it's own coverage of the event, with Tom Brokaw and Kate Couric, I think..
CNN did it's own coverage with, from what I can remember Lou Waters and someone else, incidentally the news broke at 'prime time' in the US, so they all had their top flight anchors out.
ABC took BBC coverage for a time
CBS and FOX took Sky coverage into the rest of the day, with occasionally updates from NY.
Radio networks took their respective owners coverage.
I know that TF1's coverage of the event (Television France 1) was excellent, and they were obviously live at the scene before any other international network, incidentally, I was lucky I spoke french!
From what I can rememeber the last time I watched the tapes, Sky were the first network outside France to actually go in-vision live, with the Reuters Bureau chief, as Reuters and Sky work in a partnership, giving Sky exclusive access to the 130+ Reuters bureaus, should this sort of thing happen.
(Edited by cheshirec at 3:49 pm on April 21, 2001)
And the announcement was made by Peter Sissons, with the world 'This is BBC Television from London. Diana....'
On the BBC's overnight coverage they had some overnight anchor, not sure who he was, I know that ITN (who were on air an hour or so after the BBC) had Dermot and Nick Owen, and Sky had Martin Stanford and Kay Burley, Martin was lone anchor when the story broke, and Kay arrived at approx 4am.
As, Kay and Martin were then anchors of Sunrise.
I know the American channels simply did the following:
NBC did it's own coverage of the event, with Tom Brokaw and Kate Couric, I think..
CNN did it's own coverage with, from what I can remember Lou Waters and someone else, incidentally the news broke at 'prime time' in the US, so they all had their top flight anchors out.
ABC took BBC coverage for a time
CBS and FOX took Sky coverage into the rest of the day, with occasionally updates from NY.
Radio networks took their respective owners coverage.
I know that TF1's coverage of the event (Television France 1) was excellent, and they were obviously live at the scene before any other international network, incidentally, I was lucky I spoke french!
From what I can rememeber the last time I watched the tapes, Sky were the first network outside France to actually go in-vision live, with the Reuters Bureau chief, as Reuters and Sky work in a partnership, giving Sky exclusive access to the 130+ Reuters bureaus, should this sort of thing happen.
(Edited by cheshirec at 3:49 pm on April 21, 2001)
I was actually watching MSNBC's prime time news programme, the 'News with Brian Williams' at the time (He's MSNBC's senior presenter and will be the next senior NBC presenter when Brokaw leaves) when the story broke. They pretty much had their own coverage for the whole time
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Blake Connolly
Founding member
As far as I know, the announcement of the Accident was made by Martyn Lewis on the BBC, but the news of her death was broken by Stephen Cole, when they were taking the BBC World feed. He was interviewing the correspondent in Paris when it happened. As someone already menitioned, the news was given to reporters travelling with Robin Cook in the Philippines (incidentally where I am right now) in the airport, on the grounds that they keep quiet about it until the official announcement from the Palace. Obviously the AP journo couldn't keep such a big story under his hat.
As for proximity of newsrooms to studios, another thing is proximity of newsreader's houses to the studios. I belive Dermot was chosen to front ITN's coverage because he lives nearest to ITN.
And there are plans for WW3, or at least there were during the Cold War. In the event of a nuclear bomb being headed to the UK, the BBC would put on 'The Sound of Music' in order to calm us down!!!
As for proximity of newsrooms to studios, another thing is proximity of newsreader's houses to the studios. I belive Dermot was chosen to front ITN's coverage because he lives nearest to ITN.
And there are plans for WW3, or at least there were during the Cold War. In the event of a nuclear bomb being headed to the UK, the BBC would put on 'The Sound of Music' in order to calm us down!!!
MJ
MJL
cheshirec posted:
just a joke Ste
And the announcement was made by Peter Sissons, with the world 'This is BBC Television from London. Diana....'
On the BBC's overnight coverage they had some overnight anchor, not sure who he was, I know that ITN (who were on air an hour or so after the BBC) had Dermot and Nick Owen, and Sky had Martin Stanford and Kay Burley, Martin was lone anchor when the story broke, and Kay arrived at approx 4am.
As, Kay and Martin were then anchors of Sunrise.
I know the American channels simply did the following:
NBC did it's own coverage of the event, with Tom Brokaw and Kate Couric, I think..
CNN did it's own coverage with, from what I can remember Lou Waters and someone else, incidentally the news broke at 'prime time' in the US, so they all had their top flight anchors out.
ABC took BBC coverage for a time
CBS and FOX took Sky coverage into the rest of the day, with occasionally updates from NY.
Radio networks took their respective owners coverage.
I know that TF1's coverage of the event (Television France 1) was excellent, and they were obviously live at the scene before any other international network, incidentally, I was lucky I spoke french!
From what I can rememeber the last time I watched the tapes, Sky were the first network outside France to actually go in-vision live, with the Reuters Bureau chief, as Reuters and Sky work in a partnership, giving Sky exclusive access to the 130+ Reuters bureaus, should this sort of thing happen.
(Edited by cheshirec at 3:49 pm on April 21, 2001)
And the announcement was made by Peter Sissons, with the world 'This is BBC Television from London. Diana....'
On the BBC's overnight coverage they had some overnight anchor, not sure who he was, I know that ITN (who were on air an hour or so after the BBC) had Dermot and Nick Owen, and Sky had Martin Stanford and Kay Burley, Martin was lone anchor when the story broke, and Kay arrived at approx 4am.
As, Kay and Martin were then anchors of Sunrise.
I know the American channels simply did the following:
NBC did it's own coverage of the event, with Tom Brokaw and Kate Couric, I think..
CNN did it's own coverage with, from what I can remember Lou Waters and someone else, incidentally the news broke at 'prime time' in the US, so they all had their top flight anchors out.
ABC took BBC coverage for a time
CBS and FOX took Sky coverage into the rest of the day, with occasionally updates from NY.
Radio networks took their respective owners coverage.
I know that TF1's coverage of the event (Television France 1) was excellent, and they were obviously live at the scene before any other international network, incidentally, I was lucky I spoke french!
From what I can rememeber the last time I watched the tapes, Sky were the first network outside France to actually go in-vision live, with the Reuters Bureau chief, as Reuters and Sky work in a partnership, giving Sky exclusive access to the 130+ Reuters bureaus, should this sort of thing happen.
(Edited by cheshirec at 3:49 pm on April 21, 2001)
Ok, but you have admit the BBC had the largest coverage of all tv networks worldwide...I woke up to the news on BBC Prime...they probably can break news faster than ANY other world network, because of the large number of channels they have access to (I hear, according to rumours, that the BBC are planning a Turkish channel, similar to CNN Turk).
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alekf
You were all talking about news studios and just for your information, CNN/US's newsroom (the main news room for CNN worldwide too) is right behind the presenter's desk. MSNBC's studios are MASSIVE and the presenters report the news in the midst of the news room. And Fox News Channel has a separate studio that they use for the channel (you don't see any hints of the news room)
CA
Ok, but you have admit the BBC had the largest coverage of all tv networks worldwide...I woke up to the news on BBC Prime...they probably can break news faster than ANY other world network, because of the large number of channels they have access to (I hear, according to rumours, that the BBC are planning a Turkish channel, similar to CNN Turk).
Not sure about the Turkish thing, but the fact that the BBC can break stories faster is obviously not true, as I have been talking about this before, and they clearly didn't break this one faster either.
and realisticly on the night, their coverage only involved a few people, the anchor, the person in the world newsroom and the paris correspondent, as well as royal biographers and the like.
Having large ammounts of channels would not mean they can break news faster, indeed, CNN has the most available channel in CNN International.
By largest, I take it you mean that they put it out on more channels....
Well this would probably be true, although it terms of people watching/listening the US stations obviously came highest, and Sky would have been high, as it went out on both CBS and FOX during prime time.
And thanks for that about MSNBC, was not sure about the american coverage of it, I can only remember parts of it.
And I know that Anna Botting and Colin Brazier were chosen to go to the different palaces in london, because they lived closer to them than anyone else, and could go there and be on the phone, until someone from Sky drove there with a truck. I know that Anna Botting was the first journo outside St James' Palace, so she must have been quite close, or just very quick!
MJL posted:
cheshirec posted:
just a joke Ste
And the announcement was made by Peter Sissons, with the world 'This is BBC Television from London. Diana....'
On the BBC's overnight coverage they had some overnight anchor, not sure who he was, I know that ITN (who were on air an hour or so after the BBC) had Dermot and Nick Owen, and Sky had Martin Stanford and Kay Burley, Martin was lone anchor when the story broke, and Kay arrived at approx 4am.
As, Kay and Martin were then anchors of Sunrise.
I know the American channels simply did the following:
NBC did it's own coverage of the event, with Tom Brokaw and Kate Couric, I think..
CNN did it's own coverage with, from what I can remember Lou Waters and someone else, incidentally the news broke at 'prime time' in the US, so they all had their top flight anchors out.
ABC took BBC coverage for a time
CBS and FOX took Sky coverage into the rest of the day, with occasionally updates from NY.
Radio networks took their respective owners coverage.
I know that TF1's coverage of the event (Television France 1) was excellent, and they were obviously live at the scene before any other international network, incidentally, I was lucky I spoke french!
From what I can rememeber the last time I watched the tapes, Sky were the first network outside France to actually go in-vision live, with the Reuters Bureau chief, as Reuters and Sky work in a partnership, giving Sky exclusive access to the 130+ Reuters bureaus, should this sort of thing happen.
(Edited by cheshirec at 3:49 pm on April 21, 2001)
And the announcement was made by Peter Sissons, with the world 'This is BBC Television from London. Diana....'
On the BBC's overnight coverage they had some overnight anchor, not sure who he was, I know that ITN (who were on air an hour or so after the BBC) had Dermot and Nick Owen, and Sky had Martin Stanford and Kay Burley, Martin was lone anchor when the story broke, and Kay arrived at approx 4am.
As, Kay and Martin were then anchors of Sunrise.
I know the American channels simply did the following:
NBC did it's own coverage of the event, with Tom Brokaw and Kate Couric, I think..
CNN did it's own coverage with, from what I can remember Lou Waters and someone else, incidentally the news broke at 'prime time' in the US, so they all had their top flight anchors out.
ABC took BBC coverage for a time
CBS and FOX took Sky coverage into the rest of the day, with occasionally updates from NY.
Radio networks took their respective owners coverage.
I know that TF1's coverage of the event (Television France 1) was excellent, and they were obviously live at the scene before any other international network, incidentally, I was lucky I spoke french!
From what I can rememeber the last time I watched the tapes, Sky were the first network outside France to actually go in-vision live, with the Reuters Bureau chief, as Reuters and Sky work in a partnership, giving Sky exclusive access to the 130+ Reuters bureaus, should this sort of thing happen.
(Edited by cheshirec at 3:49 pm on April 21, 2001)
Ok, but you have admit the BBC had the largest coverage of all tv networks worldwide...I woke up to the news on BBC Prime...they probably can break news faster than ANY other world network, because of the large number of channels they have access to (I hear, according to rumours, that the BBC are planning a Turkish channel, similar to CNN Turk).
Not sure about the Turkish thing, but the fact that the BBC can break stories faster is obviously not true, as I have been talking about this before, and they clearly didn't break this one faster either.
and realisticly on the night, their coverage only involved a few people, the anchor, the person in the world newsroom and the paris correspondent, as well as royal biographers and the like.
Having large ammounts of channels would not mean they can break news faster, indeed, CNN has the most available channel in CNN International.
By largest, I take it you mean that they put it out on more channels....
Well this would probably be true, although it terms of people watching/listening the US stations obviously came highest, and Sky would have been high, as it went out on both CBS and FOX during prime time.
And thanks for that about MSNBC, was not sure about the american coverage of it, I can only remember parts of it.
And I know that Anna Botting and Colin Brazier were chosen to go to the different palaces in london, because they lived closer to them than anyone else, and could go there and be on the phone, until someone from Sky drove there with a truck. I know that Anna Botting was the first journo outside St James' Palace, so she must have been quite close, or just very quick!
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Blake Connolly
Founding member
If you haven't already seen it, a really good page for what happened in the UK is:
http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/continuity/diana.html
Pity there isn't any video, but lots of good sound clips and screen grabs.
http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/continuity/diana.html
Pity there isn't any video, but lots of good sound clips and screen grabs.
SN
Steve Naylor
I know you were saying BBC News24 wanted to be the MSNBC of the UK, but do you think with presenters wandering around the news room, Sky News will be more like this (well, during some programmes).
And surely this might be good in breaking news situations as you would talk to correspondents watching live feeds as they come in without having to come to a studio.
And surely this might be good in breaking news situations as you would talk to correspondents watching live feeds as they come in without having to come to a studio.
JE
Jenny
Founding member
Presumably the death of any member of the royal family would initially entail a newsflash of the 'Unconfirmed reports are coming in...' type, giving the corporation time to drag their top presenter out of bed and into a cab.
If a nuclear weapon were launched against the UK, I suspect we would probably not be told.
If a nuclear weapon were launched against the UK, I suspect we would probably not be told.
MJ
MJL
No, we would be told...unofficially, the BBC would cancel all programmes on BBC One, Two, News 24, World, Choice, Parliament, Prime, Knowledge and America (have I missed any) alongside all the UKTV channels and Animal Planet in favour of a news bulletin in which 'unofficial' reports would seep through, but only until Michael Buerk gets over to TVC.
Btw, what happened to Martin Lewis? Did he retire?
Btw, what happened to Martin Lewis? Did he retire?