On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 1:13 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> When the announcement was made around noontime Friday, the Beeb followed > past tradition, played "God Save the Queen" on all of its adult channels > (not CBBC or Ceebeebies) before announcing the death of the Duke of > Edinburgh and then simulcast news and tributes to Philip on BBC1, BBC2 and > BBC News the rest of the day (with digital culture channel BBC4 not even > signing on)--over 100K people swamped the switchboard and web sites, > unhappy about pre-emptions of "EastEnders" and the season finale of their > "MasterChef": > > > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bbc-receives-over-100000-complaints-over-prince-philip-coverage > > Schedules were back to normal Saturday, in time for the live coverage of > night 1 of the BAFTA film awards (and who was the idiot who thought that > Radio 1 DJs should be hosts in the footsteps of Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley > and Graham Norton?). For the record, the previous record angry response to > BBC programming was the 63K complaints over "Jerry Springer: The Opera" in > January 2005. > It's odd when a news story brings a buried podcast memory. In this case it's a February 2018 episode of the Omnibus Project podcast hosted by Ken Jennings and John Roderick called "London Bridge is Down." It's a code message sent out to British broadcasters on the death of the monarch (or perhaps any close family members, I just don't remember). When the code is given there's a whole protocol of what has to be broadcast and when. I don't think the BBC had any choice to cover the royal death any differently than they did. https://www.omnibusproject.com/27 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGmJ9X99P1%3Dxa3UBr26pMzOuMu_kNSf0fBrzHnu6auGXQ%40mail.gmail.com.
