11-09-2022, 03:16 PM
GB News don't appear to have had any of the helicopter aerial shots. I thought they had joined the BBC / ITN / Sky broadcasting pool, but some of the coverage suggests otherwise.
(11-09-2022, 03:23 PM)AJB39 Wrote: Is this the longest car journey ever to be broadcast on British tv?How long was OJ Simpson’s?
(11-09-2022, 03:23 PM)AJB39 Wrote: Is this the longest car journey ever to be broadcast on British tv?
(11-09-2022, 03:35 PM)aaron_scotland Wrote:(11-09-2022, 03:23 PM)AJB39 Wrote: Is this the longest car journey ever to be broadcast on British tv?
Sure feels like it
Interesting the 4G in Fife is pretty crap compared to the countryside between Aberdeen and Dundee, picture has been awful for a bit now.
(11-09-2022, 01:23 PM)Jon Wrote:
(11-09-2022, 01:20 PM)justinh Wrote:London Bridge must (or seems to) have fallen? That seems to confirm there was some certainty the Queen had passed by 3pm.(09-09-2022, 10:00 PM)ShinyBat Wrote:(09-09-2022, 08:37 PM)eyeTV Wrote: Didn't they all get the news from the Royal Family twitter which went out at 18:30?
Or was it just embargoed until then? There felt to be a complete lack of preparedness on the part of some broadcasters.
There was almost certainly an embargo of some sort; we have been told that the PM knew at 16:30, and a two-hour embargo is comparable to the length held for Diana (although that may not actually be a good comparison at all, because that embargo was likely in order to wake the family given the overnight timing so that they heard before the public, and this one was almost certainly to buy time for protocol wheels to get in motion).
There is a notification-type ringing sound audible in the background of the rolling coverage around 15:00 (1:24:31 in the afternoon BBC News Special), followed about a minute later by whispering of some kind. Possible that is when the BBC are informed; this is backed up by the deleted Yalda Hakim tweet being shortly after (15:07), but not by Truss apparently learning at 16:30, because the first act of Operation London Bridge was meant to be the PM being informed?
Very confusing. As Phil says, consistent with the Truss timing is Myrie's brief spell in relief.
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This is the clip. I'm not sure if anyone recognises the notification sound as being normal, it takes a couple moments for someone to switch off. Around 30 seconds later, you can hear someone walking onto the set, and then - more audibly - whisper something to Nicholas Witchell, while Huw is speaking.
I can't make out the specific words but the sentence does seem to end in "fallen". Theoretically, it doesn't make sense why the news has to be orally delivered to the Royal Correspondent, but it would explain why the control room would be in the dark.
Also possible the BBC had better contact with royal sources than the government which would explain why the PM wasn’t informed until a little later.
(11-09-2022, 01:20 PM)justinh Wrote:(09-09-2022, 10:00 PM)ShinyBat Wrote:(09-09-2022, 08:37 PM)eyeTV Wrote: Didn't they all get the news from the Royal Family twitter which went out at 18:30?
Or was it just embargoed until then? There felt to be a complete lack of preparedness on the part of some broadcasters.
There was almost certainly an embargo of some sort; we have been told that the PM knew at 16:30, and a two-hour embargo is comparable to the length held for Diana (although that may not actually be a good comparison at all, because that embargo was likely in order to wake the family given the overnight timing so that they heard before the public, and this one was almost certainly to buy time for protocol wheels to get in motion).
There is a notification-type ringing sound audible in the background of the rolling coverage around 15:00 (1:24:31 in the afternoon BBC News Special), followed about a minute later by whispering of some kind. Possible that is when the BBC are informed; this is backed up by the deleted Yalda Hakim tweet being shortly after (15:07), but not by Truss apparently learning at 16:30, because the first act of Operation London Bridge was meant to be the PM being informed?
Very confusing. As Phil says, consistent with the Truss timing is Myrie's brief spell in relief.
www.youtube.com
This is the clip. I'm not sure if anyone recognises the notification sound as being normal, it takes a couple moments for someone to switch off. Around 30 seconds later, you can hear someone walking onto the set, and then - more audibly - whisper something to Nicholas Witchell, while Huw is speaking. I can't make out the specific words but the sentence does seem to end in "fallen". Theoretically, it doesn't make sense why the news has to be orally delivered to the Royal Correspondent, but that alternatively would be intentionally leaving the control room in the dark - therefore wanting to avoid using the earpiece.
(11-09-2022, 04:29 PM)Jon Wrote: It’s also possible Liz Truss knew at that earlier time those senior enough at the BBC and presumably other broadcasters were told. But was only told in an official sense at 4:30pm.
I wonder if it could have been reporters finding out from members of the royal family directly.