Royal Wedding - Harry & Meghan

I expect so. It was 5.1 on BBC One HD, so could easily have been mixed Atmos at source.

Broadcast Atmos isn't as complex as movie Atmos - as it isn't fully object based, you instead add some more ambience channels, and it's also backwards compatible with Dolby 5.1.

Not sure how it fits into the Dolby E scheme of things though - so it may have been 8 channel (5.2.1?) discrete to Sky who then encoded it in Atmos? (I heard a couple of what sounded like Dolby E splats on the BBC coverage)

The 5.1 mix on BBC One HD in the chapel was stunningly good. (As one would expect from the main TV sound supervisor for the Proms)

A rather roughly cut compilation/montage of the BBC News Channel and BBC World News coverage of the royal wedding from 0700 to 1930 if anyone is interested...

I guess those are figures for the entire broadcast rather than just the wedding and procession, which looking at the BBC peak figure would be comfortably higher.

The nice weather though meant folk were doing their own thing whilst the media hype probably did more to put people off than encourage them to watch.

Looking at the news articles from last time, the BBC peak figure was 20 million.

There are some factors at play here.

William and Kate was during a bank holiday, so more people were able to watch. Harry and Meghan was Saturday lunchtime, traditionally a day when people do activities or shopping, along with a warm day, where people would travel.

It also reflects Harry's seniority in the Royals as he's now behind the line of succession to the likes of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. But still more senior than Princess Beatrice who'll be lucky to get some coverage in the running order of the news bulletins in October.

It will be a very long time before there is a Royal Wedding as big as this was. It could easily be 25 years. More likely there will be a coronation before that, which I suspect will be more serious in tone.

And we should get a day off for that.

This video is still uploading and processing but here is how Today opened up their broadcast. Unfortunately the open for CBS and ABC were cut off due to my TiVo having the wrong EPG.

Yes, that's it for big royal weddings until the next generation get married.

I don't think it's controversial to say there will be a coronation in the next 25 years, quite likely there will be two. Though of course the next big ceremonial event will almost certainly be a funeral. The Queen's will be a major historic event and I imagine it will be watched by more than any wedding


Yes, well if you work a Monday to Friday job. The last Coronation was about a year after she became Queen so plenty of time to arrange a bank holiday. William and Kates wedding Bank holiday holiday was a bit unusual as there wasn't as much notice as a normal bank holiday.

Is there any news on the ratings of how many people watched in the US?

"The couple’s stateside audience was a whopping 22.4 million viewers across the six major networks carrying it."

NBC 6.42 million
ABC 6.38 million
CBS 4.79 million
Fox News 2 million
CNN 1.8 million
MSNBC just under a million

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-ratings-royal-wedding-brings-18-million-viewers-us-broadcast-1113498

The wedding also rated strongly in Australia:

Channel 10 execs “nah, people will want an alternative to the Royal Wedding”

People “nope, wedding please”#RoyalWedding #TV pic.twitter.com/m2Qk8Xg5T0

— Trevor Long (@trevorlong) May 19, 2018