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Muhammed Ali's death - media coverage

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VMPhil
Tonight's originally planned schedule on BBC One:

7.40 The National Lottery: In It to Win It
8.30 The Musketeers
9.25 Casualty
10.25 News
10.45 Die Hard with a Vengeance

Revised schedule:

7.40 The National Lottery: In It to Win It
8.30 Casualty (replaces The Musketeers)
9.30 Muhammad Ali: The Greatest (replaces Casualty)
10.50 News (moved from 10.25)
11.10 Die Hard with a Vengeance (moved from 10.45)
HB
HarryB
Special reports announcing the news in the US.

DV
dvboy
Special on BBC News and BBC World at 19:30 BST replacing Sportsday/The Travel Show.
TI
tightrope78
Brekkie posted:
A nice tribute at the end of the French Open final from ITV.

The BBC tribute is quite lenghthy at 80 minutes.

Which is totally deserved. However...... David Bowie had to make do with a 30 minute tribute hidden away against Corrie. I guess they had an Ali Tribute in can for many years though.
TI
tightrope78


Harry Carpenter's speech here shows just how we don't have the same quality of broadcasters these days.
HB
HarryB
Sky News has a special programme airing at 6:30 & 9:30 tonight.



NB
nbafan89
tightrope78 posted:
Brekkie posted:
A nice tribute at the end of the French Open final from ITV.

The BBC tribute is quite lenghthy at 80 minutes.

Which is totally deserved. However...... David Bowie had to make do with a 30 minute tribute hidden away against Corrie. I guess they had an Ali Tribute in can for many years though.


can someone post that please and also a nice touch was a minute's applause at epsom today
DV
dvboy
nbafan89 posted:
tightrope78 posted:
Brekkie posted:
A nice tribute at the end of the French Open final from ITV.

The BBC tribute is quite lenghthy at 80 minutes.

Which is totally deserved. However...... David Bowie had to make do with a 30 minute tribute hidden away against Corrie. I guess they had an Ali Tribute in can for many years though.


can someone post that please and also a nice touch was a minute's applause at epsom today


I assume you mean the David Bowie BBC News special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXAPw9dOMLs
BR
Brekkie
tightrope78 posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W-eXmNl0KM

Harry Carpenter's speech here shows just how we don't have the same quality of broadcasters these days.

The same can be said of Steve Rider. Interesting to see Clare Balding in the credits there as one of three further co-hosts alongside Steve and Sue - I didn't realise she'd been at the BBC that long, and certainly didn't think she was prominent enough at that point to get on to SPOTY. Indeed she wasn't considered prominent enough to fron the Grand National coverage solo for a few years after Des left (in 1999) as Sue Barker anchored it IIRC.
MA
madmusician
Brekkie posted:
tightrope78 posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W-eXmNl0KM

Harry Carpenter's speech here shows just how we don't have the same quality of broadcasters these days.

The same can be said of Steve Rider. Interesting to see Clare Balding in the credits there as one of three further co-hosts alongside Steve and Sue - I didn't realise she'd been at the BBC that long, and certainly didn't think she was prominent enough at that point to get on to SPOTY. Indeed she wasn't considered prominent enough to fron the Grand National coverage solo for a few years after Des left (in 1999) as Sue Barker anchored it IIRC.

Clare joined the Beeb in '97, I think. I have a tape of a few episodes of the '97 series of 'Auntie's Sporting Bloomers' and there's an interview with Clare as part of that - I must get it up onto YouTube when I next get a moment. At the point of that SPOTY, it was Steve and Sue as the main BBC Sport presenters, Lineker in the ascendancy as the football presenter, and then the likes of Inverdale, Irvine and Balding as the second-string presenters. Clearly, that production saw the need for a few additional presenters, and using Balding in that context isn't that surprising.
TI
tightrope78
madmusician posted:
Brekkie posted:
tightrope78 posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W-eXmNl0KM

Harry Carpenter's speech here shows just how we don't have the same quality of broadcasters these days.

The same can be said of Steve Rider. Interesting to see Clare Balding in the credits there as one of three further co-hosts alongside Steve and Sue - I didn't realise she'd been at the BBC that long, and certainly didn't think she was prominent enough at that point to get on to SPOTY. Indeed she wasn't considered prominent enough to fron the Grand National coverage solo for a few years after Des left (in 1999) as Sue Barker anchored it IIRC.

Clare joined the Beeb in '97, I think. I have a tape of a few episodes of the '97 series of 'Auntie's Sporting Bloomers' and there's an interview with Clare as part of that - I must get it up onto YouTube when I next get a moment. At the point of that SPOTY, it was Steve and Sue as the main BBC Sport presenters, Lineker in the ascendancy as the football presenter, and then the likes of Inverdale, Irvine and Balding as the second-string presenters. Clearly, that production saw the need for a few additional presenters, and using Balding in that context isn't that surprising.


I think 1997 was the year she co-hosted horse racing with Julian Wilson. He retired at the end of the year and she took over the horse racing in 1998. I think it was the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games that established her as a main face of BBC Sport.
DV
DVB Cornwall
Seems rights issues are surrounding the Ali retrospect on catchup and online. Live restart is blocked.

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