Operation London Bridge: the death of the Queen

Considering The Queen Mother lived to the age of 101, that looks likely. If the Queen lives to the same age as her mother, we still have 11 years to wait.

Forgive me if this is a silly question but what if the death happens during a large television event such as an Olympic opening ceremony or (maybe less so) Eurovision?

If I were you, I wouldn't wait. I'd get on with all the more exciting things in life (like critiqueing the 2017 BBC1 idents)

Mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Welcome to the door of hell.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Wait, is London Bridge down? No. Well, I still have nothing better to do. Might as well go to hell.

because the queen is more likely to hang on until the end of Eurovision?

That's not what I mean by maybe less so, I was referring to the viewership and how I called it a large television event.
What would happen with the coverage, would they interrupt it entirely or would they relocate the broadcast to say BBC 4?

I suppose if Eurovision was deemed important enough, they could hold back the embargo until it was deemed suitable to report the news? It's a funny old situation, and I'm sure somebody at the BBC would know what would happen. I think a similar question was asked a while back about what happened to all the special programming if such news broke on Christmas Day.

I couldn't see Eurovision being moved to another channel. Imagine the news filtering through while some flamboyant singer dressed as a flamingo sings about his love for passionfruit.

I bet though if the news broke early in the morning on the day of Eurovision that assuming they kept it on BBC1 it would probably get it's highest rating in years with people looking for an antidote to the mourning.

There was a major civil emergency in The Netherlands on the night of the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest, NOS interrupted the contest that evening. No idea if it was shown later in the week in full? NOS still contributed votes from their panel, but no public vote results, read on..

(Though I thought NOS completely abandoned showing the ESC at all ?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster

I can't see the BBC showing the ESC should the Queen die on the day, or even 36 hours earlier

Or a major sporting event...

Suspect the BBC would switch the live event to the red button and IPlayer and Studio E ah-hoy for BBC One, Two and Four.

Likewise ITV would clear a space on 2, 3 or 4 dependent on programme demographic airing, for free air on ITV.

4 move the show to More4. 5 likewise onto one of their rotten little digital offshoots.

I'd like to think the BBC would probably have more say in the matter of when the news can be reported rather than just turfing off the air a big live event people would have spent the best part of an hour or so watching but that being said I dare say it depends on the event. Eurovision is probably disposable and a precedent's already been set to cut into it as per NOS above and maybe others but for events more "interesting" (for want of a better verb) than Eurovision such as the football for example it's less clear cut and I suppose it could be a case of breaking the news on BBC Two (and/or Four?) and then bringing it to BBC One at an appropriate opportunity (full time for example) rather than going "Rooney's scored, it's four nil to England, what a magnificent goal! By the way the Queen's died, details to follow after this match."