Three Minute Silence

BBC National and regional services , including local radio I would imagine, will observe a 3 minute silence at 1100 tomorrow. (Friday)

BBC Online and CEEFAX will also draw their users attention to this silence at this time.

Thought you'd all like to know.



(Edited by noggin at 10:11 pm on Sep. 13, 2001)

Why not have a 3 minute silence at 3:00pm? That's when the real tragedy occurred on Tuesday.

(Edited by Ryan at 10:23 pm on Sep. 13, 2001)

I will certainly be paying my respects to all those who have suffered tomorrow.

Gary.

So everyone can observe this silence, programmes tommorow look like this

Friday Morning on BBC ONE

6.00 Breakfast
9.00 Kilroy; BBC News
10.00 House Call
10.55 A Silence For America
11.15 Bargain Hunt
11.50 A Service of Rememberance with the American Community in the UK
1.00 BBC News at One

Trading Up, Doctors & Wipeout are dropped

Friday Morning on BBC TWO

7.00 CBBC
9.20 Westminster Live
10.25 CBBC
10.50 Daytime on Two
11.00 A Silence for America
11.05 Daytime on Two
12.30 Working Lunch

Various programmes on CBBC and Daytime on Two are dropped

Friday Morning on ITV1

9.25 Watch to Win
9.30 Trisha
10.30 This Morning
10.55 ITV News, Local News, 3 Minute Silence
11.05 This Morning
11.50 ITV News Special
1.35 The Biggest Game in Town

Regional Programme is dropped

There are changes to Channel 4 and 5 as well

Plus I expect all live channels (such as QVC etc) to observe the silence

It will be another moving day...

And I expect all news bulletins will be extended again quite rightly.

On BBC Prime, N24, Knowledge, Choice and all UKTV too. Not on BBC World as such, but I guess World news will observe the moment.

I think that all local radio and national stations will join up to observe the scilence.
MTV and other local radio stations will also observe the scilence, this will be a first for most Uk and Eu Broadcasting will stop.

MTV have cancelled all programmes today and are playing music back to back all day with no adverts or promos. At 11, the station will 'go black' for 3 minutes.

Well, what a moment that was.... Let us hope these autrocities do not ever continue.

{on topic} What happened on television stations then?

Absolutely nothing...all screens went black on about 85-90% of channels. Exeptions seeming to be FTV, Channel Health, Liberty TV (SHAME ON YOU!!), Game Network, Sky's film channels and the Asian ones. In a bizarre twist, even E4 and Film Fours promo trailers stopped. History channel/Biography/Granada Plus/Nat Geographic/Adv One and Sky One/Sports News all carried Sky News Pics. UK TV carried BBC pictures. All other channels had a black screen with poigniant messages, included MTV Networks and EMAP channels. Never have I witnessed such a united front against whoever did this atrocity.

Even though channel hopping, I observed the silence with respect.

Simon, Penzance.

BBC World News did observe the three minute silence with an aston saying 'Europe are observing the three minute silence'.

Is it my equipment or has Shop! been off the air all day, I just have a black screen.