[Neil Jones]

I thought the BBC's coverage has been totally superb for 10 days - they haven't put a single foot wrong. I especially loved the BBC montage at the end of coverage today, and the clever camera shots above the Horseguards parade arch and the Abbey overhead shot.

Some questions that I have that have been niggling me throughout the coverage:

1) It looked like most of the ceremonial coverage was pooled (same footage on BBC, ITV, Sky etc) - how was it agreed who would cover what? Did all the networks merge their staff into a kind of World Feed or would different networks take the lead on different events?

2) The BBC had a lying-in-state feed running 24/7 - would they have had human camera operators or fixed cameras? It seemed there was a lot of zooming in and out and switching of cameras - would there have been directors working around the clock? Sounds like quite a big operation!

3) Some of the ceremonial events, especially the processions, seemed to have literally hundreds of cameras following everything - how did they secure sufficient OB/camera resource in time?

4) Some of the camera shots looked extremely well rehearsed - for something like the Abbey today what opportunities would broadcasters have had to rehearse? Not with the King etc obviously, but the ceremonial aspects

Thanks anyone who can help!

Pretty sure I read somewhere the BBC did the internal coverage, so inside the abbey (and maybe the later service), and Sky were doing the outside coverage.

The lying-in state footage was on at least six different channels on YouTube when it was a live stream, so it was clearly pooled. The same feed went out on the red button and BBC Parliament. Cameras almost certainly remote controlled, you couldn't see anybody on the wide shots (or the cameras come to that) and it was too "slick" (for want of a better word) the parts I saw to be automated - especially as the changing of the guard drifted in time the longer it went on, which would have required some manual control. The protocol was every 20 minutes changing of the guard. Rarely was it, for various reasons.

No doubt the three P's - Plan, Prepare, and Present.