[aaron_scotland]

The coverage of the State Opening of Parliament was shockingly poor - the commentator was vastly out of his depth and kept misidentifying people.  I had to change channel. Well below Sky's usual standard.

Unfortunately Alastair Bruce was taking part in the ceremony as a herald so wasn't available for Sky.

I dont actually know why Sky bother if they don't get access to the BBC OB. For a while we saw Black Rod head to the door to have it slammed on them but they never had a good camera angle, so all we saw was the BBC steadicam operator and their cable being bashed. Though we could watch the ceremony via the return feed of another OB camera in shot for a while.

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