Royal Wedding - Harry & Meghan

It was Huw, Sophie Raworth and Fiona Bruce in 2011, reporting were Jake Humphrey and Fearne Cotton.

ITV never used to have to prove it was the go-to channel for royal events, back in the eighties and nineties it was totally accepted, they were miles ahead of the Beeb at this kind of thing. Their coverage of the death of Diana got huge ratings and kudos and I had some of the papers from the day after Charles and Diana's wedding and they all said ITV's coverage was much more interesting and appealing than the Beeb coverage with Tom Fleming's pompous and ponderous approach. And the Beeb persisted with the archaic role of Court Correspondent for years.

Royal stories were of particular interest to the heartland ITV audience and they used to deliver on them. And they should still be doing that now. Their main anchor is mates with Prince William!



I doubt many of the "young trained staff" at Radio 1 are that bothered about doing a few vox pops. It's hardly going to be more than a few silly inserts.

Zattoo Switzerland has the EPG for next Saturday on BBC One HD as 0900-1400 for the wedding, then a BBC News special from 1400-1800.

Some European broadcasters who are providing coverage of the wedding.

Ireland:

3e: 0900-1200, which then switches to TV3 from 1200-1500 (presumably a ITV simulcast?), followed by a Meghan Markle documentary.
Irish Sky and cable customers also have the choice of watching on BBC One Northern Ireland.

France:

TF1: 0900-1430, followed by a documentary about Meghan Markle.
France 2: 0855-1520
M6: 1035-1345

Germany:

ZDF - 1000-1355
RTL - 1100-1400

Switzerland:

RSI1 - 1145-1405
SRF1 - 1000-1400
Not being shown on RTS surprisingly, but there is overlap in most of the French speaking part of Switzerland of the French channels, plus thanks to the Swiss rules on rebroadcasting foreign signals, they'll have more choice than most.

Italy:

Canale 5 - 1130-1345

I assume the latter is on the News Channel, as BBC One will be showing FA Cup programming all afternoon (and the Scottish Cup final in Scotland)

I think in terms of critical and public reviews ITV still get the credit they deserve, it just doesn't always deliver in ratings, though the gap certainly seems to be closing. The perception of everything being interupted by ads doesn't help when in most cases for events like this and the elections the coverage is ad free anyway.


It's not like it's "Do you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife - we'll find out after the break. In the mean time how would you like to live like a royal - it's competition time!"

TV3 is taking ITV, of course.

RTE meanwhile is also showing coverage from 11:30am-1:30pm with Maura Derrane, Evelyn O’Rourke, and Darren Kennedy.

About 60% of viewers in Ireland will have the ability to watch it on ITV HD either via Satellite or on Freeview overspill. I can't see many Saorview viewers watching this on TV3 blurvision when it's on RTE 1 HD or on ITV HD if they have access.

The last Royal Wedding was a ratings hit for TV3 back in April 2011, When it came in at number 8 in the monthly ratings.

Because not everyone has HD? Or a general majority do not stress about not being able to watch in HD? I don’t give much of a darn about HD

Anyone know what coverage BBC America is taking? I assume despite there being similar images between Domestic and World there will be seperate teams.

Edit : Trouble linking but appears there are seperate teams for World and Domestic per their press release. BBC America on their website says it’s a simulcast of BBC One.

THis is spot CNN is broadcasting from in Windsor. Not sure what other broadcasters, if any are located in this tower.

ITV News London are starting their wedding coverage a tad early IMHO. They had Lucrezia Millarini linking into the Royal VT's along with weather presenter Martin Stew from Windsor.

Perhaps to justify the money spent on the space?